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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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Paddock Portraits 2

June 16th 2008 23:54
Here’s Magic. He’s now 4 months old but is already as big (or bigger) than a couple of the 6 month olds. Magic is from my beautiful girl Maralyn who is a lovely calm natured alpaca. Magic is a friendly little guy and he’s soooooo soft! He may well be stud potential, he’s already looking fantastic (and he knows it).
Alpaca - Magic
Alpaca - Magic



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Paddock Portraits 1

June 13th 2008 02:20
Just a few happy snaps for you today. Here’s Donald (D’Entrecasteaux).
Donald (D’Entrecasteaux)
Donald (D’Entrecasteaux)

Donald's coming up to 6 months of age. It’s hard to get a photo of him with his ears up, he usually flattens them as soon as he sees the camera pointed at him. He's a stunner though, a very handsome boy


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On alpaca meat and cannibalism

June 3rd 2008 00:48
I read a book a few years ago “The Last Tribes on Earth” by Paul Raffaele, in which he journeys deep into the jungles of Papua to meet the Korowai people. They have been living happily in the jungles for thousands of years and they have no qualms about eating humans.

The Last Tribes on Earth - Paul Raffaele
The Last Tribes on Earth - Paul Raffaele

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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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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.
Alpaca Notes Categories

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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Snakes Alive

March 11th 2008 22:17
It's the time of year for them and I nearly stepped on a slitherer yesterday. I simply wasn’t looking where I was walking.

Luckily the snake knew I was coming (he wasn’t daydreaming about other things as I was) and moved away in the other direction before we made physical contact. I only spotted him because he moved. Needless to say, I was propelled backwards about a metre, but was then pinned to the spot for a short while I watched him slither off into the grass


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Boy's Again!

February 28th 2008 05:47
I sometimes go into great detail describing the various goings on at my place ...

... but on this occasion I'll just post the video instead


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Cold Snap

February 25th 2008 02:37
I had a worrying night Saturday. It rained heavily throughout the day (no complaints about that!). But the temperature dropped and then the wind came up and it kept blowing and raining into the night.

Our alpacas were shorn back in November, so they have enough fleece now for them to cope, but I was concerned about our agistees, who were shorn just over a month ago. Our crias too, especially the two youngest ones, would be feeling pretty cold out in that


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Ah, The Rain!

February 8th 2008 10:43
It’s raining and I’m appreciating that great sound of rain on the tin roof, a little bit more than usual.

We are in an area which is pretty green and normally gets a good amount of rain, so we haven’t had to think much about water issues


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