Ideal Business Plans

IDEAL BUSINESS PLANS
MAKING YOUR FEMALES WORK FOR YOU!

Most breeders and even AOBA (Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association) encourages investors to build up their herd by keeping and raising the crias they produce.

Wrong - Very Wrong!

     The most economical way to build your herd is simple - make your females work for you. Sell the weanling crias at 5 months to 1 year old. Cash in on this demanding Breeders' Market, sell that cria, roll the income over and invest in another bred female. In the same time period of the 3 years it would take to have your crias to grow to maturity, breed and produce a cria for sale, you can be $22,000.00 ahead by selling the original cria and buying another proven female. Another advantage of selling your cria and reinvesting in another completely unrelated female is that you end up with a herd of diversified bloodlines. In this way, you don't end up with a herd of nothing but mothers, daughters and grand-daughters all related.
     If you don't have the capital to purchase the ideal number of alpacas that is your breeding goal, this is the way to make your female earn your herd.
     Making your females help you earn your herd, makes ideal business sense, because the faster you increase your producing females, the more crias you'll produce for sale. A simple way to develop your own custom business plan is to set a goal at how much income you'd like to earn per year. For each $10,000.00, conservatively you'll need one producing female alpaca.
     Example: Goal @ 50,000.00 yearly - you'll need 5 producing females and 2 unrelated males so that you can produce unrelated pairs to market as breeding stock.

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Example: Using Ideal Business Plan A

Question:

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Assumption:

How much do you wish to earn per year raising alpacas?
For every $10,000.00 you'll need one producing female.
My goal is $50,000.00 yearly.
You need 5 producing females and 2 unrelated studs so you can produce unrelated pairs for sale.
Your initial herd purchase is our Herd Starter 3-for-1 @ $18,000.00. Using the 50% male/female average, 50% will be males that sell conservatively for $5,000.00 and 50% will be females that sell for $15,000.00, thus we use an average yearly income of $10,000.00 for the sale of the cria.

Here is how you may design your own custom business plan using our pricing of alpacas to build your herd as quickly and economically as possible

Hemlock Brook Alpaca Pricing is Quite Simple
Bred females@ $16,000.00 each
Unrelated junior sires @ $5,000.00 to $10,000.00 each
Our 3-in-1 Herd Starter Package @ $18,000.00 includes a bred female and a Jr. Sire of your choice
(You save $3,000.00 to $8,000.00)
*Black and grey alpacas are priced slightly higher.

IDEAL BUSINESS "PLAN A" INVESTING $23,000.00 AND 4 YEARS

Initial purchase: one 3-in-1 Herd Starter Package @ $18,000.00 selling crias and fleece (as yarn) yearly and re-investing in an additional bred female.

INITIAL PURCHASE $18,000.00 ONE 3-IN-1 HERD STARTER PACKAGE
Your Goal Reached
	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4
Males	1*	1	2	2
Females	1	2	3	5
Crias born	1	2	3	5
Sell Cria	$10,000.00	$20,000.00	$30,000.00	$50,000.00
Sell Fleece**	$1,000.00	$1,500.00	$2,500.00	$3,500.00
Income	$11,000.00	$21,500.00	$32,500.00	$53,500.00
Re-Investment Alpaca Purchases	1@$16,000.00	1@$18,000.00	2@$32,000.00	None
Profit or Loss	<$5,000.00>	+$3,500.00	+$500.00	+$53,500.00
**Sale of fleece from your Alpacas

In 4 years, your herd has grown from 1 male and 1 female to 2 males and 5 females. In year 1, you have to add additional funds of $5,000.00 to purchase your extra female for that year. In year 2, you purchase another of our 3-in-1Herd Starters @ $18,000.00 to give you another producing female and your second unrelated stud. By the end of year 4, you are at your goal with an income potential of $53,500.00 per year. Your total investment capital needed for this plan should be $23,000.00.

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IDEAL BUSINESS "PLAN B" INVESTING $36,000.00 AND 3 YEARS
Making Your Females Grow Your Herd

Initial Purchase: Two 3-in-1 Herd Starter Packages @ $36,000.00 selling the crias and fleece (as yarn) yearly and re-investing in additional females.

INITIAL PURCHASE $36,000.00 TWO 3-IN-1 HERD STARTER PACKAGES
Your Goal Reached
	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3
Males	2*	2	2
Females	2	3	5
Crias born	2	3	5
Sell Cria	$20,000.00	$30,000.00	$50,000.00
Sell Fleece**	$2,000.00	$2,500.00	$3,500.00
Income	$22,000.00	$32,500.00	$53,500.00
Re-Investment Alpaca Purchases	1@$16,000.00	2@$32,000.00	None
Profit or Loss	+$6,000.00	+$500.00	+$53,500.00
**Sale of fleece from your Alpacas

With the purchase of 2 Herd Starter Packages, this plan grows much faster. In 3 years this herd has grown from 2 males and 2 females to 2 males and 5 females. At the end of year 3, you are at your goal with an income potential of $53,500.00 per year.Your total investment capital needed for this plan is $36,000.00.

You may use these Business Plans as a guide to design your own custom plan. Set your goal in even $10,000.00 increments, purchase at least 2 3-in-1 Herd Starter Packages( because you need 2 unrelated studs to produce unrelated pairs for your future sales).Then purchase as many extra females as you can comfortably afford to build your herd as quickly as possible.

PRICES AND GUARANTEES
We have one of the largest and most diversified alpaca herds (of unrelated bloodlines) in the Northeast. This enables us to offer our customers great savings with our affordable prices. We have a beautiful selection of quality-registered

alpacas for you to choose from.
The females are mostly 2 to 6 years of age and bred to some of the finest sires in this breed. The stud quality males we offer are 1 to 3 years of age and we have an extensive selection of unrelated breeding stock to choose from, including many rare beautiful full Peruvians of color.
To further help you save money, our reduced herd starter prices can save you $3,000.00 to $8,000.00.

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