Archive for 2013

It’s all go down here on our alpaca farm in Wiltshire, while the sun is shinning we are taking every opportunity to get our bigger jobs of our never ending list done.

Starting with the most important which is how our farm, acreage wise, is divided between our four horse’s and our expanding alpaca herd.

Up untill now it has been about an even split, but this is not working out very well especially for the horses.

There’s just far too much grass, ...

It’s been a bit of a hectic weekend here on our alpaca farm, not due to the alpacas I hasten to add, no dramas on that front, but due to my youngest child Lauren coming of age.

I suddenly feel so old, it only seems like yesterday when my children were little ankle biters as my husband liked to call them and now they are all grown.

All grown but showing no inclination of leaving home, where am I going wrong? 🙁

I ...

Today was a very auspicious occasion for one little male alpaca, today was the day I had decided he was to become a man.
That is all well and good I hear you say but had I checked with the said male, Honeyfield Angelo, to see if he was ready, willing and able.

No of course I hadn’t, Superior genetics and all that, of course he’d be willing, ready and able, he’s my boy 🙂

Was I heading for a fall, probably ...

It’s all change in the alpaca paddocks, half the fields are now clear of the dreaded buttercup and were ready today for the alpacas to graze. Moving them all into these paddocks leaves us now free to spray off the paddocks they’ve just vacated, weather permitting of course.

As Swap shop was the order of the day, I thought it was the ideal opportunity to jiggle around the girls in the birthing paddock. Six more females are due to enter their ...

I just thought I’d better reiterate that this is an alpaca farm 🙂

I’d assumed most of you had already guessed this by now as my blogs are full of waffle about one alpaca or another and of course the numerous alpaca pictures I post should have helped confirm this.

But maybe this is not the case as over the weekend we had a visitor arrive at the farm.

This person and I shall mention no names as I wouldn’t want to embarrass ...

I gradually getting used to seeing my alpacas naked, although I think I’m going to need at least a few more days before I can start being able to tell who’s who.

You’d think their ear tag numbers would help, but you get so used to how each and every alpaca looks, and believe me even with a predominately white herd they are all so very different, that I’ve never needed to rely on their tags to tell them apart.

That is ...

That’s alpaca shearing completed for another year Yippee! Yesterday was positively perfect, weather wise, in fact the whole day was perfect and totally stress free from start to finish. Thank you Ian you did a brilliant job it was a real pleasure working with you and all the alpacas look great even Dora, I’m just totally shattered 🙂

I must add it’s a very happy shattered, the fleeces just rolled off and each and everyone one of them, with the exception ...

I must say I’m feeling like a very lucky alpaca breeder, although it’s pretty scary saying it out loud, please weather forecast don’t change. I don’t think I could I have picked a better week for shearing? Wall to wall sunshine yippee!

Tomorrow is D-day and for my pregnant girls it will be a huge relief, the last few days they have been really struggling with the heat.

Even Dora and Blue who have given birth are struggling, mind they have cria ...

What a beautiful weekend, the weather has been absolutely glorious so much so that even though we had a huge list of jobs that needed doing, we found ourselves spending more and more time just sitting watching our latest alpaca arrivals Wilson and Teddy.

Those boys would keep any one mesmorised for hours they are just so cute and funny.

Wilson has spent most of the weekend trying to get Teddy to wake up and come play with him. Wilson didn’t quite ...