Two babies were born on Friday. The first one, a brown girl, arrived in the morning and the mother delivered lying down. I looked out of the office window and [...]
CME Tulaco Centurion was Huacaya Show Champion at the Devon County Show with Alpaca Stud Jaquinto reserve champion so we found ourselves in the Grand Parade with all the other [...]
The first Jaquinto cria was born today at around 12 noon, a big healthy girl. She was trying to stand almost immediately much to the amazement of her mother, a [...]
I took a long walk all round the farm checking up on the alpacas yesterday when I saw three fox cubs playing down in the bottom field. They were about [...]
Good heavens and all that, we had an excellent couple of days at the BAS National Show at Newark with all six of the animals we took getting ribbons. Dovecote [...]
This weekend it is the BAS National Show at Newark. All our show animals are like dishcloths, wet, wet, wet. They are all going in to the barn tonight in [...]
One of our first time mothers gave birth on Sunday, very late in the day, at around three oclock. Baby came out gasping for breath and very floppy but after [...]
It has been a very busy few days. The Australian scientist Jim Watts of the SRS breeding system came by to look at our herd and give us some help [...]
Minstrel gave birth this morning to a white male cria. It was a classic birth. She moved away from the herd, a few minutes later the head and legs were [...]
Hurrah, my black girl Roxanne has finally given birth. At about 8.30 this morning a very large black female cria popped out. We had begun to doubt ourselves as Roxanne's [...]
Back to school for Joshua, his vey last term, I would be ecstatic but he is very tired and cannot sleep so not much reaction. Monday was quite busy for [...]
