Llama Subsidy?

[Steve Wood]

After a little research, I don't find anything to validate a subsidy for Llamas.  I think that is the extended imagination of a reporter.

Llamas are considered a normal agricultural animal like a cow and are a depreciable asset.   Government pays you nothing for raising them.

One could debate easily that there is no real market for them other than the hyped up dreams of a few that got in on the ground floor and have convinced the next wave of suckers that alpacas are the next big thing.  Pretty much an animal pyramid scheme.

Reminds me of the chinchilla farms of the fifties...or maybe that was the forties...or the emu touting of a few years ago.

It takes a bunch of alpacas of the right wool quality to make one sweater and the price is so high that there is no real market for them except for the ridiculously ostentatious.. .sure is soft, I give you that

[daveismissing]

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[ULYCYC]

I think 'Boid" should forget the trucking company idea and open a raccoon farm. I hear it's a good tax write-off :idea;

[gordyzx9r]

We have a number of Emu farms around here.

Funny story, when I was going through flight school and learning to hover the instructor pilot had me focus on a "bush" in a nearby field to try and keep me steady...I started drifting and when the IP asked me why I was drifting I responded that I was following the bush, turned out to be an Emu.

We have a private zoo that's open to the public here that really surprised me.

http://mikeszoocritters.com/

Lions, tigers, cougars, cheetahs, Ligers (they're freakishly huge), bears, alligators, snakes, wolves, all kinds of domestic grazing animals/cattle from around the world, and a camel.  Not too sure I was thrilled about how little caging there was between me and the cats...

[DCEPTCN]

I heard it from John Stossel.

http://www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel/uncle-sam-will-help-buy-you-an-alpaca.html

This might be a better source:

http://www.ehow.com/info_7758117_grants-government-alpaca-farm.html


...and Steve, I want a cut of your tax savings.

[Steve Wood]

first, I meant alpacas and not llamas, but a little research says John S did not do much prep before he made the report....lots a alpaca ranchers calling bs on that one...