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In Australia, there are currently two main alpaca associations you can join, the Australian Alpaca Association (AAA) and the Australasian Alpaca Breeders Association (AABA).

The AAA was the first alpaca association set up and maintains a register of alpacas called the International Alpaca Register (IAR). AABA also has a register which is called the Australasian Alpaca Register (AAR

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Posted By: Rosemary - Category: Breeding

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Protexin – for the slops

May 1st 2008 00:57

This is going to be an incredibly boring post for 99.9% of the people in the world today. HOWEVER, there is probably a person out there in the world (or even maybe two) who have an alpaca, or a pig, goat, chicken, horse or dog, with the slops. And if you’ve ever had an animal with the slops, you’ll appreciate that this post may be very useful for them.

This is about a product called Protexin which is a multi-strain probiotic, useful in the treatment of scours in animals. Scours is another name for the slops - or diarrhoea if you want to get technical

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Posted By: Rosemary - Category: Alpaca Care, Product Reviews

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The Bombay Call Centre

April 28th 2008 06:11

They've been on the boil pretty much non-stop today. I’ve got some work on which involves excel and word documents with lots of data and graphs etc all linked up to each other - yes, I know, the day’s already doomed when you’re dealing with anything microsoft.

Anyway, I got a few calls early on. People I simply could not understand, someone asking for the “gentleman owner please of the business’ (grrrrr) and a couple more who sounded like they were phoning from down a mine shaft

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Posted By: Rosemary - Category: Just Rambling, Working From Home

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Alpaca with Apple

April 25th 2008 05:48

No, not an exciting new recipe I’ve thought up, just an alpaca, with an apple.

Alpaca eating an apple

This is Alice. Alice is 8 years old. She was born here. Alice knows that if she’s friendly, the two-legged’s will give her yummy things to eat

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Posted By: Rosemary - Category: Alpaca Care

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More Mating Madness

April 22nd 2008 04:29

Well, Ginger’s still not pregnant, nor is Maddy. Cappy had a great time with Ginger yesterday. I didn’t have my watch on, but it seemed like he was there for an extraordinarily long time, much longer than his usual 20 minutes.

Alpaca mating chaos

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Posted By: Rosemary - Category: Breeding

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Alpaca Notes Categories

April 18th 2008 01:02

I’ve been busy organising my posts into categories. I’ve got a few posts on here now, so I thought I should break them up so if you are looking for something particular about alpacas, you can find it more quickly.

I probably should break it down a bit more into sub-categories, but that will take some thinking about, and hell, it’s Friday, All I’m thinking about today is the weekend

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Posted By: Rosemary - Category: Just Rambling

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Fleece to Wool

April 16th 2008 04:26

I’m looking for a spinner. Someone who likes to take the lovely soft fleece from my alpacas and turn it into beautiful, hand-spun wool to be knitted into comfy, warm things to wear in the winter time.

From pacas...

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Posted By: Rosemary - Category: Fleece & Wool etc, Working From Home

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Why dogs bite the postman

April 13th 2008 22:44

I was going back through some of my old dachy photos and videos and came across these ones.

Dachys opening the mail

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Posted By: Rosemary - Category: Dachshunds

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Needle time - Vitamin D

April 10th 2008 23:35

Going into winter, we give our alpacas a dose of vitamins. We give a combination of vitamins A, D & E, but it’s the vitamin D which is particularly important for these guys.