From the Andes Mountains of South America to the rolling hills of Richmond, Kentucky, there’s a common thread: alpacas.
For Rob Maynard, who runs River Hill Ranch with his wife Alvina, raising alpacas wasn’t always the plan. “Around 2009 or 2010, my wife was in Peru and saw alpacas and thought, ‘That’s a really cool animal and we should probably get some of those.’ And my response to that was, what’s an alpaca?” Rob laughed.
More than a decade later, the Maynards have become experts in working with these unique, woolly creatures. “They have padded feet with toenails—padded feet like a dog, not what you would expect,” Rob explained as he walked LEX 18 through the herd…