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Alpaca Notes - Tasmania

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Alpaca? or Camel!

July 11th 2010 21:10

There are a lot of similarities between alpacas and camels.

It is believed that they were once a single species residing up the the north of America. As they moved south, some of them moved across to Asia and Europe, evolving into camels while others continued down to South America and became the species we now know of as Camelids (alpaca, llama, guanaco and vicuna

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Bye Bye Magic

May 17th 2010 10:21

Our lovely, smoochy Magic (or Maggi Noodles as he'd affectionately become known), went to his new home on Saturday.

As a little guy I trained Magic to walk on a lead and taught him to get in and out of the back seat of our Mazda hatchback. It seemed like a good idea at the time, he was only about 6 months old. He still only just fit in there then though, as he had a huge fleece on him and he's not what you'd call a compact alpaca

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Ghost Alpaca

March 22nd 2010 23:23

I did a photography course recently, to find out more about the manual settings on my Canon SLR.

Previously I was a point and shoot photographer, using the automatic setting and while I usually got great results this way, I thought since there are so many buttons and options on the camera that it would be worthwhile to know what they're all about

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Fleeced!

December 29th 2009 23:12

Now Christmas is out of the way, I have a shed full of alpaca fleece to deal with.

I sell some fleeces from the farm gate, but most goes on the website and I sell it via Paypal. This has worked out pretty well, but it's a bit cumbersome and time-consuming to set up, specially at this time, when the pacas have just been shorn, so there's a ton of fleece to sort out and list

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Posted By: Rosemary - Category: Fleece & Wool etc

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Alpaca Christmas Ornaments

December 1st 2009 23:43

I've been designing some cool Chrissy ornaments with photos of my alpacas. I've done some round ones and also oval-shaped ones. They're working out really well too as I have lots of close-up shots and they look great on the ornaments.

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The 'motherly' type, senile or a dirty old man?

November 25th 2009 22:30

We have a small problem. Actually, I'm not sure that it is a problem, just something I haven't come across before and I guess the alpacas will sort it out themselves.

Ol' Bob nursing two weanlings

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Posted By: Rosemary - Category: Alpaca Care

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Alpaca Calendar

November 11th 2009 21:58

OK, this is just a shameless plug for my new alpaca calendar.

Alpaca Portaits - Calendar

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What Noises Do Alpacas Make?

November 11th 2009 21:24

So many people ask me about the weird noises that alpacas make that I thought it justifies another post on the subject.

People are taught animal sounds when they're growing up; cows moo, ducks quack and horses neigh etc. but until fairly recently, outside of South America, most people had never heard of alpacas, let alone heard the sounds they make

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Rain, Glorious Rain - Mud, Mud, Mud

August 9th 2009 07:04

It's wet! By Jove it - is - wet! Now, we're in a pretty lush area, there's no question about that, with plenty of all-year streams, dams and springs that never ever dry up. But this winter has been unbelievable.

The first rains were wonderful. They sprinkled water down which ran across the dry paddocks and down the creeks. They even started to fill the tanks

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Posted By: Rosemary - Category: Alpaca Care

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Alpaca Update

June 6th 2009 01:28

Been away for a while, but I noticed that Alpaca Notes hasn't disappeared off the radar, so I thought I'd drop in with an update.

We lost our lovely Daizi. Not sure what happened, just went out one morning and found her lying dead in the paddock. Very sad, as she was an alpaca I really liked, I could cuddle her and she'd come up and cluck at me like she clucked at her crias

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