FYI
I had always thought they were a pyramid scheme....
Was doing some poking around and found a Google Group discussion on Llamas...
Kinda comfirms what I had heard....
Then I saw the date...... April 25, 1994
groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.rural/ZkUshs1X-fc
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Llamas are good for making new llamas. A few years ago, llmams were touted
as the wonder beast of the next century. Usable from snout to tail.
Some people made a ton of money selling llama breeding stock to
other folk wanting to cash in on a Good Thing. A pyramid scheme just
like Amway. The whole thing devolved into a whole bunch of people
selling llamas to each other. The market for llama products never
materialized.
Much the same thing is going on right now with ostriches. The wonder
beast of the next century. Usable from beak to butt. Right. I've yet
to see any ostrich product offered anywhere other that the ostrich
hide wallets and feathers which have always been available.
What we have is another bunch of people selling ostriches to each
other. At obscene prices. Telling each other that the big ostrich
product boom is just around the corner.
Catfish farms, chincillas, gerbils, llamas, ostriches. Maybe I should
start up with yaks.
Terry
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I guess I didn't know Google was around in 1994....LOL
PS
The farmer up the road...had some bead health problems, got out of the dairy business.
Started with "meat goats'...was kinda of the same deal.....never really sold any...and about the third year all the "kids" born died and he dropped out disgusted with the whole thing....
Now is raising beef...and talking about pigs......
Such is the life of a farmer...looking to cash in on the next big thing...