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Will they eat the fruit trees?

February 11th 2008 03:57
Yes, they will, absolutely. Well, not totally absolutely, but certainly as high as those long, slinky necks will reach. And not just the fruit trees either.

I’ve seen the occasional alpaca up on their hind legs munching leaves higher up in the tree, but most alpacas will take only what they can reach while keeping four legs on the ground


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Alpaca Training – Why bother?

February 1st 2008 01:13
It is not absolutely essential for an alpaca to be halter trained and many people have alpacas who are never halter trained. I have several alpacas here who I purchased as adults and haven’t got round to doing any training with.

They’re still personable, easy to handle and happy alpacas, they’re just not used to walking around on the end of a lead


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Agistees

January 28th 2008 01:46
We have some more visiting alpacas staying with us while their carer takes a break. Fifteen very lovely white and fawn alpacas, mostly girls and a couple of little boys.

We’re lucky here, we don’t overstock so usually we have too much pasture, rather than too little, as some owners are experiencing


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Pema and Chameli go home

January 22nd 2008 22:00
We took Pema and her cria home on Sunday. Pema stayed with us for a couple of months while waiting to have her baby. Having only a couple of boys (wethers) to hang around with at home and this being her first cria, she came to our place so she could have the company of some other girls for a while.

Her cria has been named Chameli (pronounced chaa-meh-lee). This is a Tibetan name for the jasmine flower, which is tiny and has a white face (just like the cria). Pema means ‘white lotus


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Which halter to buy – Part 2: The Mallon halter

January 20th 2008 23:31
The Mallon halter was developed by a well known trainer of alpacas and llamas, John Mallon. John has made a number of DVD’s on alpaca/llama handling.
Cappy in his spiffy red halter
Cappy in his spiffy red halter


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Which alpaca halter to buy – Part 1: The Zephyr

January 17th 2008 03:58
There are quite a few different types of alpaca halter out there on the market. Which you buy and use depends largely on your own personal preferences, the local availability and of course, your budget.

We’ve tried a few different types over the years and there are two types which get used around here (while the others lay collecting dust in the back of the tack cupboard


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School’s In for Alpaca

January 14th 2008 04:44
I’ve been doing some training with Madeline. I sometimes start halter training a youngster at about 6 months of age, but I thought I’d give Maddy a bit more time to get used to me (and humans in general) before introducing her to formal training.
Alpaca with halter and lead rope
Madeline wearing her halter


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Little Baby Update

January 7th 2008 03:41
The four new crias are doing well and are happily exploring their world.

The oldest, Donald, is smaller than both Emily and Holly, who are nearly a week younger. The girls' mums are bigger animals, so it makes sense


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RIP Jasper

December 6th 2007 21:17
Jasper was a little fancy alpaca born 11 May 2001 from our girl Sabrina. His dad was Jamaica.

We sold Jasper 16 December 2001 with another youngster, ‘Johnny come early’, at an alpaca wether sale. (‘Johnny come early’ was a premmie, born at 305 days gestation, the average is 342 days


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De-Nutted

December 4th 2007 22:52
A couple of boys were castrated yesterday. They belong to a lady who bought three youngsters from us early in the year, two boys and a pregnant girl.

I didn’t think to take photos of the “procedure” for you, but it’s probably something you can imagine well enough from a description, without having to see – particularly if you’ve just eaten. Apologies in advance to any squeamish guys out there too


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