It’s not good news today. She fought for days and days. Until the very last second. Even when she was unwell she was sweet, she was tame and looked into your eyes, talking to your soul. Her colour was awesome, her touch was magic. She was so dense and soft! Ivory awakened the curiosity ofContinue reading “Ivory”
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Just in time
It didn’t quite look like it, and the weather app is not always accurate with the forecast, but just in case we brought the animals in. Good job we did! It’s chucking it down!!
Visiting English gardens
Who wants a sterile piece of land when you can coexist with Nature that looks like this!? The pictures are from different locations. It requires work. However, I do like an English garden, far from sterile low maintenance designs.
Check mate
The balance after the matings, checking for pregnancies before we decide the husbandry needs for each group of alpacas. Trelawney happens to be the one to help checking who’s taken or not. I can’t help but feeling sorry for him, as he’s presented to all the girls but he’s not allowed to touch them. He’sContinue reading “Check mate”
End of summer
During the last few months, we’ve been looking at the sky, wondering where the summer was. It eventually gave us a few days of sunshine. September has brought more rain, making the shorter days more noticeable. The crias don’t seem to mind the rain, though. They are playing constantly, running, chasing, and investigating around, asContinue reading “End of summer”
No crowd
It did happen, however I had not shared it. We did have only two crias out of six we had planned last year. Our breeding is in a standby at the minute. But we will get back to it eventually. Coming back to the arrivals this summer, we again managed to have only one male.Continue reading “No crowd”
Wait
After letting go of some of my girls earlier in the year, I’m expecting only two crias. The weather has been perfect for it, but the mums have decided that full term is better. So we’re approaching the 348 and 343 days of gestation, and with a turn of the weather -yes, that was theContinue reading “Wait”
Listen
¿Qué escuchas mientras trabajas? While I work, I hear the wind on the roof running through the old tiles, and in the big trees pushing bent the twigs, sometimes the machines busy in the fields around. There’s always birds singing. Sometimes they do competitions for loudness. On occasions they shout long conversations from one sideContinue reading “Listen”
Dreaming
I’ve been looking at last seassion’s crias. There is less time to spend with them these days, and the halter training does not seem to have been as sharp. They still fight and refuse to walk individually, so we have to take them in small groups. The mums are looking rather ready. DG and AmeeraContinue reading “Dreaming”
Challenging breeders
Sometimes you look for the right matching male for your alpaca, but you don’t get what you want. The mixture of genes combines randomly and you may not get what you expect. All these unknown genes passed on unnoticed…! I can think of some national champion alpacas whose full brothers or sisters are not asContinue reading “Challenging breeders”
Kestle Alpacas 