Not a whole lot going on on the farm today (alpacas eating, drinking, pooping, and peeing doesn’t count, sorry) other than snow removal from yesterday’s storm. So with the cleanup under control, and the farm’s vaccine order delayed by yesterday’s weather–thus postponing February herd health day until at least Monday–I finally got to add a…
So this is quickly rounding into form as the snowiest winter of my adulthood. Though I’ve yet to add up the cumulative snowfall here, I would guess that after the 18 to 20 inches we got yesterday and today that we’ve got to be at 5’+ at this point for the year and February is…
So in addition to the already posted bred females which have been up for the better part of two weeks, there are now 8 members of the 2010 birth class that joined them as of today on our farm’s web site. The juveniles run the gamut of price and quality from relative entry-level breeding females…
Taking good pictures of alpacas requires some patience and a sustained sense of humor. Particularly when the alpacas in question are weaners. We (the we that was Jen and Kim while Ian sat at his desk/on the couch with the infamous ice bag) had just weaned a trailer load of 15 little buggers on Friday. So…
So the reality when one breeds 65+ females is that you get to see a bit of everything over time. This morning the barn cleaning crew found a 6 month fetus on the north side of the Arena that we were quickly able to figure out had come out of Golden Bell, one of our…
With all due respect to the Cleveland Cavaliers, their former superstar (and his sprained ankle), and the little war of words that’s gone on there over the past few weeks concerning karmic payback for this or that perceived slight…I submit the following simple tale: 1. man goes to Las Vegas, the city of sin and…
