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After a brief pause in the darkness of rainy Britain, the sun has awaken our inspiration for typing again. Alpacas have been part of our lives for over seven years now. In that time, we have learnt a lot about them, and we have created a quality herd that carries our own name. This takesContinue reading “New year’s dreams”

Today’s blog is a bit different from any previous one. However, I hope some alpaca owners can learn something from it. After my last blog, someone asked me why I check the eyes of my alpacas. Checking the eyes is an essential part of their overall health monitoring and care routine, as it allows earlyContinue reading “Beautiful eyes”

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”