Welcome to Shady Hollow Suri Alpacas.  You'll find us in the heart of Michigan's "Thumb" near the small bustling town of Bad Axe.

...Yes, the name "Bad Axe" does have a bit of history.  In 1861, while surveying a road through here, Captain Rudolph Papst made camp at an old hunter's cabin where he found a much-used axe driven into a stump.  When he pulled it out, its blade was so chipped that it barely resembled a useful tool at all.  But he wasn't looking at the axe!  He was looking at the clearing itself!  Here was a place fit for the building of a proper frontier town.  The Captain used the name on the Minutes of Survey and later on his county map.  For a short time the name was changed to Huron, but the townspeople voted it back to its original name ... Bad Axe.

Here at Shady Hollow our goal is to create a small herd of excellent quality Peruvian, Bolivian and North American Suri Alpacas in a wide range of colors.  By selective breeding, we hope to continuously improve our offspring generation after generation. We emphasize individual care of each animal and offer a full range of farm services including boarding, sales, birthing and breeding.

Visitors are always welcome.  In the summer, we sit on the porch sipping something cold and "talk alpacas".  In the winter we sit by the wood stove sipping something hot and "talk alpacas".  Call and/or stop in, you'll make our day ... and when you're ready to leave, we hope we've made yours!