Finca Serena Alpaca Services

We provide a variety of services for you

• Flexible financing available to accommodate your needs
• Hands on training
• Packages available
• We offer breeding, boarding and full sales support.
• Boarding up to 4 months for free when you purchase alpacas from us.
• Boarding includes:
  Grain, hay, minerals, pasture rotation, cleaning, monthly deworming, toenail clipping when needed.
  
• Due to increased cost of grain and hay we must ask a Boarding fee of $5.00 per day. 
• Birthing: $250.00 normal care of newborn and mother. Veterinary fees will be billed separately, bottle feeding extra.
• Requirements for Boarding: The boarding alpaca needs to have an BVD negative certificate along with a Veterinarian's health certificate, the alpaca needs to be fully insured, Veterinary services are billed separately. We are fortunate to have an excellent camelid veternarian within 25 minutes of the farm.
• We offer an exceptional customer care and special guidance for beginners
• Helping hands farm support.  Sometimes and extra hand doesn't hurt ! We can help you with your monthly herd health and shots. Cost for this service is on a per farm basis depending on travel and service/s being provided. Give us a call, we will be glad to help.

Raising alpacas on your own property:

First you must establish that you are actively involved in the business and desire to make a profit. Alpaca ownership suggests you:

Even if you are a passive investor you will still be allowed the following tax benefits.

Deductible Expenses:

Also refer to Section 179 from the IRS that allows a substantial deduction each tax year for expenses.

Please note that once you have determined either a net income or loss, that amount is included on the tax return. It is either an addition to or a deduction from ordinary income. Losses can be carried back for 3 years and forward for 15 years. To deduct any loss, you must be at risk for an amount equal to or exceeding the losses claimed. The “Risk Factor” is:

The passive owner’s losses that are in excess of current income can be carried forward and taken against future income. Timing is the issue.

Tax deferment:

Alpacas in which you have cost basis can be written off over 5, 7 or 10 years if there are being held as breeding stock. Straight line or accelerated schedules allow for a percentage of the asset to be written off. Example: An alpaca is purchased for $20,000, depreciated for 2.5 years or 50% of its value and then resold for $20,000. There would be a gain for tax purposes of $10,000. Result = The adjusted cost basis is deducted from your sale price to determine gain or loss.

Capital Gain Treatment:

  Please refer to IRS Publication 225, “Farmer’s Tax Guide” for more information. It can be attained at the IRS website http://www.irs.gov

Your accountant can advise you of your tax structure and we recommend that you follow that advice.

These are just a few of the exciting
tax advantages of alpaca ownership