The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch / @TenaciousRanch / Steampunk Penny / Penellope Logue / Phillip Matthew Logue - Don't cry because it ended, laugh because it's still getting worse.

[Smiling Honeybadger]

It's some of the more expensive yarn fibers you can get. But you actually have to take care of them to get quality fiber plus making yarn is a lot more intensive than most people think. It has to be cleaned, carded, spun specific to different weights for different projects, measured, cut for individual skeins, and dyed if you're working with color which is a whole seperate pain in the ass. All of that takes expensive equipment, time, and energy. Just dyeing alone can take 20 minutes to 2 hours depending on the dye, shade, and number of colors. Personally when I dye fibers I set a day aside to do that so there's no distractions and less chance of screwing up.

I doubt any of these loonies can hold it together to make it profitable. Their caustic neuroses would fit well in the fiber arts community though. It's mostly hipsters and bitter liberal cat ladies.

This and also the care of the alpacas is a buttload of work, and requires careful breeding for topnotch coats. They have pedigrees and contests for alpacas, if you are really seriously into breeding them for profit. But I would say the most the Tranchers thought was "Alpacas=quick bucks". And when you approach it from this angle, you have the already described results of poorly, uncontrolled bred alpacas, frozen stiff on a mud wasteland.

 

[Weeb Slinger]

So these are the people who cornered the market for alpaca fleece merkins.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Quite a few of the reviews seem sarcastic, they mention that they love how there is still alpaca feed in the wool as it makes it rustic, or some shit.
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OMFG Does she (he?) seriously think Alpaca's are native to Colorado?

 

[Bogdandoff]

I'm with the Waco reference, but shouldn't it be Wacow?

I doubt this place will be Wacod.

 

[Random Internet Person]

I doubt this place will be Wacod.

I don’t think this place is at the level of Waco yet.

Alpacas are profitable? Curious. I always thought of them as like a vanity herd pet type thing.

Man I want an alpaca...

Apparently. I’m not sure what the market is for alpaca wool and milk is though, at least in the US, unless there’s some farmer’s market or LGBT thing in their area I’m not aware of.

 

[JON CENA]

The main thing that worries me about these loons is them projecting all their paranoid self-defense fantasies onto everybody around them and painting the (presumably standard Republican or unaffiliated LibRight) locals as violent white nationalists waiting for the perfect opportunity to hate crime them. The Waco jokes are obvious but what's the chance one of these hormone-addled open-carrying nutcases goes on a trip into town and thinks the townie giving them a side-eye is planning a hate crime, and then whips out the Armalite for some preemptive self defense? Hell, what's the chance they immediately flee back to the Tranch where they think they'll be protected by an arsenal of tens of thousands of dollars worth of military-grade weapons and other paranoid political extremists subject to constant mood swings from all the shit they put in their bodies?

A full Waco/Ruby Ridge is pretty unlikely and I think the reality is this whole thing is going to end in legaldrama after one of the troons shoots another or the farm itself becomes unviable, but I'm still worried for the safety of people that have to deal with these lunatics.

 

[TV's Adam West]

Is this that skinwalker ranch I've heard about?

 

[Brussels Sprout]

The main thing that worries me about these loons is them projecting all their paranoid self-defense fantasies onto everybody around them and painting the (presumably standard Republican or unaffiliated LibRight) locals as violent white nationalists waiting for the perfect opportunity to hate crime them. The Waco jokes are obvious but what's the chance one of these hormone-addled open-carrying nutcases goes on a trip into town and thinks the townie giving them a side-eye is planning a hate crime, and then whips out the Armalite for some preemptive self defense? Hell, what's the chance they immediately flee back to the Tranch where they think they'll be protected by an arsenal of tens of thousands of dollars worth of military-grade weapons and other paranoid political extremists subject to constant mood swings from all the shit they put in their bodies?

A full Waco/Ruby Ridge is pretty unlikely and I think the reality is this whole thing is going to end in legaldrama after one of the troons shoots another or the farm itself becomes unviable, but I'm still worried for the safety of people that have to deal with these lunatics.

I agree with this. I've said this in the Tranny Sideshow thread but im waiting for a troon to pull some real violence on a normie. I know they've beat on some lone terfs and lesbians before, but clearly liberals nor conservatives give a fuck about that. It seems like the oppreshuns is mounting upon the fragile backs of trans wammen what with JKR and Keira Bell basically declaring the UK the tranny gulag and superstraight pride sweeping the internet.

For a couple years I've been waiting for one to really disconnect with reality and take it out on the general public. These guys with their weapons stockpile seem like fair candidates for minecraft activity. It really depresses me to think about, but I am also curious to see the fallout of some public violence at the hands of a troon; will the hugbox find a way to excuse something that evil? (probably) Will the news report it as "female violence"? (also probably).

At least the real rednecks in the area are armed and likely less retarded.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

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Apparently. I’m not sure what the market is for alpaca wool and milk is though, at least in the US, unless there’s some farmer’s market or LGBT thing in their area I’m not aware of.

There are odd niche markets for homesteading weirdos if you know the right people, you'd be surprised how profitable some of them can be. That said, I don't think this is one of those cases, Alpaca wool tends to be a niche textile but that's not to say it's bad or you couldn't in theory make a nice profit with a well managed ranch.

I'm kind of a casual observer of the Kevin thread but I vaguely recall Penny or Bonnie bragging about getting a bunch of farm grants on twitter, so I'm not sure how much of their livestock making a profit actually impacts finances.

 

[AbraCadaver]

Funny how its a group of all incel men trans-women with no autistic women trans-men.

Well yeah, don’t want any gross girls around, ruining everything.

 

[LooseMoose]

OMFG Does she (he?) seriously think Alpaca's are native to Colorado?

These people are virtue buying from the ranch because 'trans solidarity', I'd imagine intelligence isn't their strong point...

 

[Smiling Honeybadger]

Is this that skinwalker ranch I've heard about?

Kind of, but it is the cheap asss bootleg version. Instead of werwolves, UFOs and paranormal shit, you have guntoting trannies, UFO-like housing and undead alpacas. Which is still kind of very paranormal.

EDIT: It certainly smells of virtue buying. Because I ask myself if the buyers would still be enchanted by smelly fiber that has hay sticking all over it, if they had bought it from a non Tranch-Seller.

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

I'm kind of a casual observer of the Kevin thread but I vaguely recall Penny or Bonnie bragging about getting a bunch of farm grants on twitter, so I'm not sure how much of their livestock making a profit actually impacts finances.

IIRC that was for the recycling business which went absolutely nowhere.
They got three rusted horse trailers and declared them garbage trailers.

 

[Love Machine]

Alpacas are such nice animals, it's a shame they have to live with trannies all day.

 

[Captain Fitzbattleaxe]

Alpacas are profitable? Curious. I always thought of them as like a vanity herd pet type thing.

Man I want an alpaca...

Not according this wonderful quote from Richard Sexton, an agricultural economist.

“The fundamental fact is that in this country, an alpaca, as an asset, an income-producing asset, is worthless. It has no value at all,” Sexton said. “The product it produces, 6 to 8 pounds of alpaca fiber a year, is worth less than what it costs to feed, medicate, and house the animal.”

 

[Montalbane]

Why isn't the department of defence getting involved with this?
It's Iraq all over again!
This is a theocratic society with the capability to build Weapons of mass destruction.
One facility (Kevin) is already up and running, other are on the way.
Are we really going to wait until they unleash a Amhole on new york or washington?

 

[Love Machine]

Why isn't the department of defence getting involved with this?
It's Iraq all over again!
This is a theocratic society with the capability to build Weapons of mass destruction.
One facility (Kevin) is already up and running, other are on the way.
Are we really going to wait until they unleash a Amhole on new york or washington?

Personally I would think that calling the ATF and saying they are making illegal automatic weapon modifications would be a lot more effective.

 

[KooksandFreaks]

Alpacas are profitable? Curious. I always thought of them as like a vanity herd pet type thing.

Man I want an alpaca...

From what I’m seeing online? Not really. There’s just not much of a market for alpaca wool in the U.S. And nobody here consumes alpaca meat. As mentioned in the OP, alpaca farming appears to operate like a pyramid scheme.

If there’s any money to be made at all, it’s in selling the animals you raise to suckers like the ladies at the tranch. I believe alpacas are advertised as easy to care for and maintain. They don’t require as much land, feed, water, specialized equipment and expertise as, say, cattle.

The tranchers would probably have been better off raising goats or sheep. At least there’s a market for their milk and meat. But I think I remember reading in the Kevin Gibes thread that they don’t want to slaughter animals in order to turn a profit. And raising livestock for milk is extremely hard work.

Here’s an article describing how the bottom fell out of the U.S. alpaca market several years ago, if you’re interested. TLDR is: avoid alpacas if you want to make money on a small farm.

When the Great Alpaca Bubble Burst

At the peak of the U.S. alpaca frenzy, top breeding alpacas would sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. While adorable, for many Americans these critters were a seriously bad investment.

priceonomics.com

 

[All Cops Are Based]

A bit of a dead horse, I know

 

[Red Sun]

Not according this wonderful quote from Richard Sexton, an agricultural economist.

So this is conclusive evidence that the Tranch is simply making the wisest economic choice by forgoing medicine and housing for the alpacas. I never thought troons would be so fiscally astute.