Terrific news for alpaca owners. There were no new laboratory confirmed bTB cases in the whole of 2024. In that year 343 camelid herds were subject to testing for a [...]

Our first birth of the season turned out to be exciting, a bit too exciting really. Classical MileEnd Julia was clearly in labour but there was no progress. Time to [...]

A great day for us at the North Somerset Show with our six strong show team all coming away with an award. Our brown intermediate female and white junior male [...]

Sadly, we could not make the British Alpaca Society National Show last weekend as we had our UK Alpaca hats on and were exhibiting our alpaca yarns at the Stitch [...]

We did lots of halter training our junior show team at the beginning of the year as we were running up to the West Shires Halter Show at the Three [...]

It’s been a very busy few days what with Devon County Show and shearing the whole herd. But the best news is that we collected our new Burmese cross kitten [...]

Thawed out now from Wonderwool which was absolutely freezing on the Saturday. My scarf and coat stayed on, still cold though. Sunday brought sunshine and as usual it was warmer [...]

Lots of grandchildren around on Easter Saturday which meant the pink car came out of retirement for the two toddlers, Remy and Diana, whilst the older ones enthusiastically took part [...]

As soon as we had set up the stand for The Stitch Festival on Wednesday we went to the Barbican to see an exhibition called ‘Unravel: the power and politics [...]

Last weekend was the first yarn show of the year for us, Unravel at the Maltings in Farnham. It was raining when we unloaded the van and absolutely throwing it [...]

A fellow alpaca breeder says he has MAD, Mud Affected Disorder. He claims to spend hours muttering about mud, is glued to the weather forecast and threatens to leave the [...]

Last weekend was a blast. We were at the Midlands Alpaca Championship Show at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern. It was the first show of the year and oversubscribed [...]