http://www.alpacanotes.com/ Alpaca Notes - Tasmania en Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:54:00 GMT Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:54:00 GMT info@alpacanotes.com info@alpacanotes.com http://www.alpacanotes.com/snap-legs-broke/3/ Alpacas create rolling patches for themselves. They don't have lanolin in their fleece as sheep do, so rolling in the dirt helps weatherproof their fleeces. It works a treat too... http://www.alpacanotes.com/snap-legs-broke/3/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/snap-legs-broke/3/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:54:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/snap-legs-broke/2/ Alpacas create rolling patches for themselves. They don't have lanolin in their fleece as sheep do, so rolling in the dirt helps weatherproof their fleeces. It works a treat too... http://www.alpacanotes.com/snap-legs-broke/2/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/snap-legs-broke/2/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:49:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/snap-legs-broke/1/ Alpacas create rolling patches for themselves. They don't have lanolin in their fleece as sheep do, so rolling in the dirt helps weatherproof their fleeces. It works a treat too... http://www.alpacanotes.com/snap-legs-broke/1/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/snap-legs-broke/1/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:48:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/the-long-and-the-short-of-it-farewell-lucy/ We're down to two dachies (dachshunds) now. The first one, Benson, came 13 years ago. Then the second, Lucy, six months later. Seven years flew by and two more came... http://www.alpacanotes.com/the-long-and-the-short-of-it-farewell-lucy/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/the-long-and-the-short-of-it-farewell-lucy/ Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:01:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/ponies/ Well, six alpacas don't each much grass and with 12 acres (or roughly 5.5 hectares), in a temperate area with springs and creeks everywhere, we have a whole lot of... http://www.alpacanotes.com/ponies/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/ponies/ Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:20:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/helping-out/ We're down six alpacas here now and only have two on the website for sale so at the mo, I'm helping out a friend who also needs to sell a... http://www.alpacanotes.com/helping-out/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/helping-out/ Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:20:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/then-there-were-six/ Farewelled three more pacas. Cappy, Bob and Peter Pan have all gone to live in Perth. That's Perth, Tasmania, not Perth, Western Australia. A lovely family have bought them as... http://www.alpacanotes.com/then-there-were-six/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/then-there-were-six/ Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:46:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/all-in/ We had our stud sire, Cappy, castrated (or wethered, gelded, snipped - whatever term you like to use for it) a while back. When you castrate an alpaca, it generally... http://www.alpacanotes.com/all-in/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/all-in/ Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:28:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/bothwell-spinin/ Just a little plug for the Bothwell SPINin which is an annual festival for folks interested in the end product of natural fibre products - fleece, wool, etc. It's not... http://www.alpacanotes.com/bothwell-spinin/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/bothwell-spinin/ Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:58:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/had-the-snip/ Well, our two remaining 'boys' have have their little operation and are now what's called in the industry here as 'wethers'. It's the same term as used in the sheep... http://www.alpacanotes.com/had-the-snip/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/had-the-snip/ Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:17:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/alpaca-pics/ It's that time of year again, when the sales from my Cafepress store start to ramp up. People are starting to get their alpaca calendars for next year, as well... http://www.alpacanotes.com/alpaca-pics/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/alpaca-pics/ Sun, 31 Oct 2010 23:22:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/staggers/ We have a little guy here at the moment bobbing his head around like a puppet on a string. He's also very wobbly in the legs and falls over a... http://www.alpacanotes.com/staggers/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/staggers/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:38:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/alpaca-or-camel/ 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... http://www.alpacanotes.com/alpaca-or-camel/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/alpaca-or-camel/ Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:10:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/farewell-magic/ 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... http://www.alpacanotes.com/farewell-magic/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/farewell-magic/ Mon, 17 May 2010 10:21:00 GMT http://www.alpacanotes.com/ghost-alpaca/ 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... http://www.alpacanotes.com/ghost-alpaca/#comments http://www.alpacanotes.com/ghost-alpaca/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:23:00 GMT