Are you raising them just for the wool and meat?
Just fleece.
Not much interested in eating them. Seen Alpaca jerky and it’s big in Australia.
I don’t know what they go for now but 20 years ago breeding animals went for 10s of thousands of dollars. Would make for an expensive filet.
We had a few lamas years ago to look after sheep we never bought and mostly kept the horses company, wife wanted some alpaca but the price always kept us out of the market. When I cleaned out the barn, I tossed multiple 55 gallon bags of wool, not much of a market for home shorn wool and getting it custom processed can be more expensive that just buying processed wool on the market.
They are fun to watch though. Even funnier the first time our horses saw a lama. The horse assumed it was some sort of exotic predator, once the lama realized what was going on, he tormented the horses for a few days until they realized he wouldn’t eat them.