Motorists will see many things when riding through the hills of Jasper County — fields of grazing cows, trees mirrored in ponds — and maybe, just maybe, they will run across a herd of alpaca trotting ...

Jack Ravert giggled as he ran away from a trio of alpacas pursuing the cup of feed he held in his hand — the 7-year-old was the victim of what the Black Barn Alpaca Ranch’s owners called an “alpaca ...