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Alpaca Care - Alpaca Notes - Tasmania

Good Design from Nature

August 20th 2007 01:08
One great thing about alpacas is they are born clean skinned around the tail and belly areas and the fleece on the insides of their legs stays very short.

Nursing Cria
No mulesing required

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The Pecking Order

August 16th 2007 22:18
Just like in every society, alpacas have their hierarchy and every alpaca knows his or her place in the herd.

You’ll have a leader, who keeps everyone in line. The leadership may change now and then as other alpacas challenge the leader for the top position. The girls tend to do this by intimidating each other and spitting. The boys do this too but they also get physical and fight for top position


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Move dem Pacas

August 14th 2007 23:02
Early on, we decided we needed something in which to transport our alpacas. The first thoughts were what if one got sick or injured and we had to get him to a vet in a hurry. Also, if there was a bush fire or something, how would we get them out? Just the typical thoughts that new alpaca owners have.

We already had a flat tray ute, so it made good sense to use that. My dad was a spring maker and built us a stock crate to fit the flat tray. It was steel with wire mesh and a colourbond roof. It had a ramp at the back. The crate even had wind up struts for lifting it on and off the ute as we needed


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A Shed?

August 9th 2007 22:14
People who visit always ask if they need a shed for their alpacas. We have a large shed and we’ll find the alpacas in there on really hot days, keeping out of the sun.

We had snow here a couple of years ago, (The only time in the 10 years) and in the morning the alpacas were all white. They hadn’t bothered with the shed but chose to sit out in it instead


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Alpaca Language – The sulk

August 7th 2007 23:22
To sort out their disagreements, male alpacas fight with each other. Females will do a bit of neck wrestling but tend to just have spitting matches rather than getting physical.

Alpaca arguments occur over various things, such as food, personal space, or who is going to mate with that female over there. When an argument occurs, you’ll have a winner and a loser


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Not letting them win

August 5th 2007 23:25
When you have an alpaca in a headlock and the alpaca is thrashing about like a mad thing - let him go.

I've found that in general, women tend to handle this statement better than men. Some guys believe that by letting the animal go they will think they have won, so you should hang on and make the alpaca learn that you are in charge


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Still in the poo

August 3rd 2007 03:06
The books will tell you that alpacas poo in piles, and this is true, you'll have small oval piles of alpaca poo located in strategic spots around the paddocks. The boys are great housekeepers and keep the piles nice and neat. I guess this is so they don't have to travel too much to do their sniffing thing (see other poo post). The boys will walk into the pile and make their contribution right on top of what's already there.

The girls, however, tend not to be so fastidious and adopt the 'near enough is good enough' attitude. Subsequently, you'll find that the poo piles in paddocks habited by girl alpacas are not piles, so much as scatterings; a bit of poo here, another bit there and a tiny wee bit just over by the fence. Why this is, who knows (if you know, please enlighten us), maybe they prefer not to walk in it! In any case, what you end up with is a rather large area with poo over it


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The Poo Pile

August 2nd 2007 06:05
Poo piles are very important places for alpacas. A poo pile is kind of like the Orble of the alpaca world, where alpacas come to check out what's happening in the world.

For example, male alpacas will use the poo piles to establish whether any of the girls might just be receptive to mating


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Alpaca, Llama - What's the difference?

August 1st 2007 00:17
Alpaca, Llama - What's the difference?

I get asked this all the time and for a while there were some llamas agisted next door, so I could just point and say "they are llamas


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