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When we made our first -- and so far only -- alpaca buy this past year we started with three, and that's still all we have right now. We don't have as much room as the folks we think of who are, well, "real" alpaca farmers. At most we could likely support up to five alpacas comfortably on our little pasture of about three-quarters of an acre; anything more than that and we're edging into possible dry-lot territory, something we're not interested in doing since we don't plan to be what we consider a "real" farm (i.e., one that breeds and sells them or at least has a number more substantial than three). From the start this was an enterprise we embarked on because it would give me a constant source of my own fiber to spin -- some of which is certainly selling (sometimes even just the unspun fiber, such as the couple of ounces of combed top from Silverton earlier this year) but none of which will ever likely fully pay for the boys' room and board, nevermind make us any actual money. And we also embarked on it for fun and for the experience of raising farm animals, both of which we've gotten back in spades.
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