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Days are getting shorter. They are even dark throughout the hours of light. Morning jobs still need doing. In this blog, I’ll take you on a journey through the morning routine of caring for these graceful camelids, exploring the rituals that ensure the well-being and happiness of our beloved alpacas. The alpaca farm comes aliveContinue reading “Wet morning jobs”

The weather has been having some kind of trouble behaving and hasn’t displayed the natural expected flow of events. Instead, we had a strange elongation of warm season well mixed with the first days of autumn rains. That, together with growing fleeces, was the perfect recipe for fly strike, which has taken a few animalsContinue reading “Sunny autumn days”

One of those had fly strike. Can you tell? I couldn’t. We do close observarions. It seems like September is the month in our farm. It was about 2pm and we went to check the animals. After cuddling them to see their nails, check out their lovely coming fleeces, smelling their snout (yes, they sayContinue reading “Time flies”

Approaching one year of age is my lovely sweet Grace. She threatened to be some kind of feisty character. I trained her to behave for a halter show when she was just about six months, and she proved to be very smart. She cannot be shown about, as there is no time for travels inContinue reading “With Grace”

Kestle Peggy Nenette. Beautiful, graceful… and definitely fiery. I wanted to take one prefect picture for my good friend Nigel to see. I wanted him to see her lovely crimp, her pretty face, her shape and size maybe. Just because I chose Nigel’s stud for our lovely Ivory last year, and I’m really happy withContinue reading “We have a Peggy”

Hablar con mi madre cada mañana, cada tarde y cada vez que queremos encontrarnos a cada lado del teléfono. Me da paz ver crecer a mis hijos, y la manera en que crecen, que me sorprende a veces, y me llena de orgullo siempre. Me da paz la eterna presencia de mi compañero de camino,Continue reading “Me trae paz”

Last year, pregnancies seemed to last longer than ever. Most of them carried on for over twelve months. This year, that is not the case. Charles came up at 48 weeks. White. Peggy Nenette was born at 51 weeks. White again. Well, let me introduce you to a little gem that we had on aContinue reading “Stardust”

One of the challenges of breeding alpacas is the uncertainty of pregnancy. Alpacas carry their cría (normally just one) for around eleven and a half months. They can provide only one cría per year. That makes the breeding process more costly than many other farmed animals.. If the females happen to not to be pregnantContinue reading “Is she?”