The Great Valley Longnecks, October 2025

Just an Alpaca dressed as a hot dog, nothing to see here.

I had a friend say to me, “Alpacas in Halloween Costumes!” and I said, “Say no more.”

In October of last year the farm, Great Valley Longnecks, was having open weekends where you could visit all the Alpacas and other animals and then also participate in a Needle Felting Craft and it was amazing. They didn’t even charge for it! I, of course, made a donation, but in this day and age? Holy wholesome fun, Batman.

When you pull up the very long driveway you are greeted with a field on the right full of Alpacas (IN HALLOWEEN COSTUMES) and then a Pig enclosure on the left. Straight ahead of the driveway was all the chickens and turkeys and a dog, also in a Halloween Costume, further down was the barn that had their gift shop of Alpaca goods and upstairs was where they had tables setup to learn how to needle felt.

My partner and I stopped at the alpacas first. The kind workers gave us some food to give to the animals and we were on our way.

After a very cute time hanging out with the Alpacas we went to the chickens and the turkeys, where we could also feed them as well. Ya’ll I knew turkeys were rather larger creatures but you don’t really realize it until you are holding a small plastic cup of feed in front of one and it just shoves his whole head down into it quite forcefully.

There was even a pup named Buzz, dress up as Buzz, quietly hanging out with all of the chickens, just watching over everything.

There were some beautiful chickens to feed and some were even wearing costume pieces too!

I just loved how it looked like this chicken was drawn with a sharpie marker.

We then traipsed over to the barn where I oohed and aahed over all the alpaca wool items you could buy (ended up buying an ornament as I am wont to todo). Then up the stairs we went to make some needle felted pumpkins. This was a dangerous craft to learn because I had a GREAT time with it and really don’t need yet another hobby. My partner and I really locked in with it too, he even was like, woah this is super enjoyable. We made a very cute pair of pumpkins together.

Mine is on the right, his is on the left.

After the pumpkins we headed back to the car but not before stopping and petting the pig because of course I had to pet the pig. The pig was BIG. But also squishy where I was petting him.

After that we packed ourselves back into the car and headed home. It was a sunny and chilly day but it was a perfect fall outing and I can’t wait to go again. They did have some winter activities last year after we went but I also like to be warm so I don’t do too many true Winter events. I’m too much of a wimp. Still though, I would definitely do it again!