Our first cria arrived yesterday - a little early as the dam was not 11 months until March 6. Hmm that rather ruins my theory that our girls always go [...]

Chas and I spent five hours yesterday with spreadsheets everywhere working on the production plan for our UK Alpaca yarns. Splitting the four tons between dyed colours, natural colours, double [...]

Hurrah, Chas appears to have finally chosen the show team. We have been severely hampered by the weather as it never seemed to stop raining. But after several dry days [...]

It missed us after all, just a very raw wet day. We waved to Alex last night, in our minds of course, when we saw a reporter on a snowy road [...]

Whoopee, it is halter training time again. We started with the junior boys yesterday and today just putting halters on them and letting them stand around calmly. Only one in [...]

Andrew found a tiny hairless cria in the field yesterday chucked out months early. We found the female as she was quite bloodyand swollen. The cria was due in late [...]

Gosh, my brain hurts, I've been proofing the British Alpaca Futurity catalogue, it is so full of detail and opportunities for mistakes that it takes hours. You get a very [...]

The last lot of snow was still lying on the ground in the top half on the farm. Today we've got even more, falling heavily now. Maybe it will get [...]

We have got over the first hurdle with the 2011 fleece collection as it has all been scoured and is now at the top makers for the next job. It [...]

That's us, we are very well supplied with mud in Devon. Chas makes Andrew carry the hay across the fields - he is young and strong - to avoid making [...]

I spotted the first primrose around here today on the lane. We were bringing the intermediate boys back to see if they will make this year's show team and there [...]