Not everyone likes Alpaca hair. It is very fine and IMO hard to root without getting pluggy looking hair for that reason. I don’t care for it myself. You might like it though. It doesn’t seem to sell for as much as quality angora mohair. Considering how inexpensive it is, I would much rather buy it already to use than to have to clean the fiber and dye it myself. I sometimes buy raw angora mohair and clean and dye it and believe me it is a job! If you do decide to get it, I would suggest using an acid dye to dye it since Alpaca is such a fine fiber because people hair dye might be too harsh for it. If it is a nice color of course you wouldn’t need to dye it.
OKay, well here is a website that give you a lot of good info about pricing
I buy washed totally cleaned and conditioned undyed mohair from mohairhouse.com and then dye it to the color I want. She sells nice mohair and I can get it for $15 an oz and all I have to do is dye it.
I’m just curious, what part of the goat do they cut the hair off? I have this mental picture in my head of them cutting off the beard under the chin.
I had angora goats and you shear the entire body twice a year. I end up throwing the mohair that grows around their privates away since it is not just dirty but poopy! LOL! I don’t know much about alpacas but if I had one I would not expect to be paid much if anything at all for a small ziploc bag of hair which would be plenty to at least experiment with it. I know my 2 goats gave me way more mohair than I knew what to do with it.
make sure it’s suri alpaca, thats the only type suitable for rooting babies. i’ve gotten 6 ozs for 5.00. the dk fawn is lovely just the way it is color wise. i’d be interested in buying some more alpaca.let us know how it goes. sage