Park Side Suri Alpacas

Park Side Suri is an alpaca farm in Wethersfield in North Essex, England.

On this website you will find pages detailing our stud services, alpaca sales, alpaca fibre and information about alpacas as well as news and blog details of our show experience, pictures of alpaca cria and our occasional blogs.   We also have a facebook page – click the image on the right to follow us.

We set up our herd in 2014 and specialize in Suri alpacas.

Suris are the rare breed, luxury version of alpacas, producing long, lustrous locks with more silk-like qualities than the more common huacaya alpacas.  Alpacas are intelligent and curious and make every effort to understand what we humans are trying to communicate.  They grace our paddocks and are a delight to see gamboling in the fields as their long locks flow with their movement.

As well as short items of news we occasionally post longer stories of our lives shared with alpacas.  Viv’s views include life stories of alpacas observed from the vantage of working full time on the farm.  Ian’s diary takes a somewhat quirky view of the responsibilities of managing the pasture from the perspective of Ian who has to juggle alpaca land management with another job.  There is more about our farm on About Us.

The Park Side Suri herd was formed in 2014 using quality foundation stock from several established UK breeders. Our three original stud males were extremely successful in creating daughters and we are now layering new genetics over them.  We have a spectacular brown stud male who has been producing progeny for us since 2019 that can be viewed here at Park Side.  As well as great conformation and fleeces  Park Side Bedivere has a lovely temperament.  Bedivere is a multiple brown championship and Judges Choice winning male producing lustrous dense fleeces – he has top genetic lines being a Synergist grandson and a Suri Wonder Dream grandson.  We also have Pinkney Dragon who is a multiple supreme championship winner with an incredibly dense and lustrous white fleece, still retaining his lovely handle as a senior.  Dragon joined our herd in 2021 and has produced some lovely sons and daughters for us, inheriting his fantastic fleece characteristics, including the National light female suri champion of 2022. Our newest stud male is Pure Shylock is a beautifully marked rose grey multiple champion, with a dense fleece with lovely handle, who has sired fawns, browns and greys for us.

With many successful years in breeding as well as in showing behind us, we have a number of animals  for sale as we need to reduce the herd a bit to make room for the youngsters.  See our alpaca sales page for information, and our sales listing page for individual animals or sales packages page if you want a discount on a group of animals.   We will be delighted to discuss your requirements and help you put together the group that will best meet your needs – please remember that we have other animals that are not advertised and we can also put together ‘Best of both worlds’ packages of a mix of suri and huacaya with our partners at Hilly Ridge.  Read more on our Sales Support page

Our first ever shearing was on the 14th May 2015. We learned to process our fibre: skirting fleeces, entering fleece classes (and winning rosettes) and learning to spin yarn. Later Ian learned to shear and we improved our shearing set-up, skirting all the blankets on shearing day as they came off the animal.  Every year as we experiment we discover more about how to use our fantastically lustrous and silky suri fibre.