Alpaca Stud Farm

All our stud males are having a couple of days of rest and recuperation before we ask them to dive into the fray again - not that they have ever [...]

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Alpaca cria

It was a thrilling moment yesterday morning when I peered out of the bathroom window at some ungodly hour and saw our first Centurion cria sat up by its mother. [...]

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Alpaca World magazine

Jeff Brooking, the designer, and I have been looking through all the photographs for our competition this quarter. There are some great pictures. We found the competition winners and a [...]

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British Alpaca Futurity

The Futurity sponsors gathered at our place yesterday for a meeting to decide what to do given the Foot & Mouth disease movement restrictions. We have had to postpone the [...]

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Alpaca Happenings

It's been a busy few days preparing for our Open Day yesterday, falling over with shock at more Foot & Mouth and the death of the premature cria...not a marvellous [...]

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Alpaca Cria

Amazingly the little premature titch is still alive and doing well on Day 4. He hasn't mastered suckling from his mother yet but is having a very good try and [...]

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British Alpaca Futurity

The Silent Auction of stud services is now live on the website so get bidding! This is the principal fund raiser for the Futurity which exists to plug the British [...]

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Steely Toes

I am fed up with alpacas standing on my toes. The shoes I bought to wear around the farm all summer have totally collapsed and when I walk down the [...]

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More reunions

We had lunch today with Penny and Roger. I was at Sidcot School with Penny about a thousand years ago and really in lots of ways we haven't changed a [...]

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Alpacas & Television

Quite a lot of people saw us on the Countryfile programme on Friday. Luckily I missed it so I am not squirming at the horror of it all. I knew [...]

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Reunions

Talk of a reunion of the journalists who were on the IPC Training Scheme in Plymouth took me hurtling back to Day 1. Amazingly, at least that's what my school [...]

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Foot & Mouth

The restrictions have been lifted and we are free to move animals which is very good news. Mobile matings can resume and we can ship animals who are now pregnant [...]

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