• Avenger’s first!

    I was tickled the other day when a friend of ours, Sue Monat of Happy Hearts Alpaca Farm, sent me a photo of a newborn female cria. The little girl in question had just been delivered by Saline, the SuperNova daughter they had bought from us a couple of years back the last time the…

  • A final gift

    After making us sweat for several weeks Saphira finally had her first cria yesterday afternoon. It was the sort of uneventful maiden birth that makes you think she’d always known how to do that. “Thanks for watching but I’ve really got things all under control here folks!” Her 11 month due date, even before which…

  • Training my replacement?

    We’ve always been kind of circumspect whenever folks have asked us about our kids and their involvement with the farm. Yes, the kids may have in the past shown flashes of interest in the farm and it’s management but not what one would call a real passion. Something which we were ok with. We felt…

  • Silken Damask cria #1

    I’ve been meaning to get a picture of this little guy since he was born a couple of weeks ago but have always found myself at the Arena sans camera whenever I thought of it. The still unnamed boy will be at least bay black if not true black before we’re done. This was of course…

  • Oh, you’re SO dreamy

    I have seen a lot of different behaviors over the years while managing the breeding of this herd but it’s a rare occurrence that I come across something genuinely new. This evening at 6PM while tending to the second half of a Matrix Majesty double session (something which may seem like a better idea now…