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Introducing Madeline

November 15th 2007 21:38

This is Maddy, born on 11 January 07. She has a teddy bear face, which is a very trendy look in alpacas at the moment and absolutely tons of fleece. (The fleeces are coming off next Friday, weather permitting – mental note to self : Must clean out the shed!)

Madeline - 22 October 07

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Up close and personal

November 13th 2007 22:01

Alpacas are curious but cautious animals. They are very flighty and it can take a long time to earn their trust. They are not naturally cuddly, affectionate animals (despite their appearance).

However, once you become familiar to your alpacas and they know that you won’t harm them, they lighten up and over time they can become quite tame and friendly

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Alpaca Roll

November 12th 2007 04:33

Not an alternative to the traditional steak sandwich or sausage in bread, although alpacas are made of meat same as every other animal. This roll is actually of the physical exercise variety.

Alpacas having a roll

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Ol’ Bob.

November 4th 2007 22:15

I’d like to introduce you to Ol’ Bob, otherwise known as Bob, Bobtail, Bobby or Mr. Tail.

Alpaca - Ol' Bob

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Under the Hose

October 31st 2007 00:36

My alpacas love to be hosed down in warm weather. We’re lucky here as we have an all year stream on our place and a couple of dams so we’re rarely short of water. When we get a nice warm day (yes those do happen in Tassie), I get the hose out and all the alpacas come running.

Alpacas enjoying a hose down

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Moving Alpacas - Part 2

October 28th 2007 20:49

As well as the physical logistics of transporting your alpacas, there are different quarantine requirements between the states regarding the transport of animals. You need to find out the rules before moving your alpacas anywhere. It’s too late once they’re at the border to another state, to find out you haven’t done something you needed to.

Alpacas - Exploring their new home

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Moving Alpacas - Part 1

October 24th 2007 21:26

I’m often asked how we transport alpacas. Within Tassie, we use our trailer which was purpose-built by my Dad. See my other post Anatomy of an Alpaca Trailer.

For interstate travel, we use Tasmanian Horse Transport. As the name suggests they are horse movers, but they have also been transporting alpacas as well, for many years now

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First Vaccination

October 22nd 2007 02:40

We did little Marco’s vaccination on the weekend. We do the crias (babies) at 4 weeks of age, then a booster at 8 weeks, then annually from then on. Some owners do them twice a year.

Alpaca vaccination

We use Ultra Vac 5 in 1. It includes vaccines for 5 diseases: pulpy kidney (enterotoxaemia), tetanus, black disease, malignant oedema and black leg

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ALPACA EATS

October 19th 2007 03:39

I was just having a think about what to write today and remembered I bought some Gran Mix for the alpacas the other day and clean forgot to get it out of the car.

It’s not a major issue. The car will just smell a bit like a grain silo for a while that’s all (it smells worse after we’ve had a pizza in there to be honest

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Anatomy of an Alpaca Trailer

October 10th 2007 21:47

My Dad, who was a Spring Maker for 60 something years, made our alpaca trailer. He originally built it as a removable cage for the back of the flat-tray, but the ramp was way too steep and high to haul the alpacas up. And getting off, they’d simply jump, so if you happened to be holding onto the end of a lead when they went, you’d go paca-sailing off the back of the vehicle. Not fun.

So he made the cage into a trailer. It’s a tandem trailer (two wheels on each side). I think this makes it more comfortable for the alpacas, and it remains stable when not attached to the vehicle. You can walk around in it without it rocking like a see-saw

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