I’ve just put a group of female alpacas up for sale on AlpacaSeller and our website at a bargain price. This group are looking for new homes as a result of a client dispersal so they are priced to sell. We went to collect them on Thursday and they are a very nice little foundation herd.
We have woken up to bright sunshine – maybe the fields will start to dry out. Yesterday I got extremely fed up with mud. The owners of the new fields we are using have not stoned the gateways so they are just awful and we have a lot of alpacas with very muddy feet. They don’t like it either and are turning into expert long jumpers.
I am trying to work out, with Julie Taylor Browne, whether I can do Cameldynamics with one hand. Marti McGee came over from the States several years ago and did a clinic at our old farm. I do use some of the things she suggests particularly holding an alpaca – the one where one hand is under the chin and the other behind the head. I can do that with my stump and the animals stand well as your body is not that close to them. It is all that making a halter out of rope business that I find tricky.