Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Standing over a squirming alpaca, Brian Denstedt sheared off its fleece while avoiding the animal ...

GALCHUTT, N.D. - Low hums rumble across the Ten Seven Acres alpaca farm here on a hot afternoon in early May. Dirk and Jessie Monson's herd of 15 alpacas and one llama, plus another group of nine from ...

GOODE — On a chilly, damp Sunday, alpacas at A Goode View Alpaca Farm parted ways with their warm, thick fleece. When Goldmine, the first alpaca to undergo her annual shearing, was led out of the barn ...

They’re not going into the army, but these gentle giants all shared the same hairdo after the clippers were finished. Inside a cozy barn at the Sopris Alpaca Farm on Saturday, 60 alpacas were trimmed ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. About 200 alpacas and llamas from across the Gallatin and Paradise valleys gathered in Bozeman ...

PRESTON — A spirited alpaca named Miracle was shorn for the first time on April 3 at Outstanding Dreams Alpaca Farm. Now he looks like a four-legged Q-tip. But if he looks comical, he’s not alone. He ...