1. Why was it 41 degrees outside this morning? Leaving aside the fact that it would be nice to go skiing sometime soon, this is getting to be a tad bit bizarre. It says here that amongst the ranks of global climate change deniers you will not find too many farmers or people whose lives…
We just finished December herd health the other day, which was no no great shakes given that it was a non-toenail month. All told it probably took maybe 4 hours? I was honestly only involved at the Arena, Jen and Kimberly having whipped out the Main Barn and the Stud Barn on their own, and…
Way back in January of 2002 we were, to my knowledge at least, one of the first alpaca farms to start using cardboard bedding on a large scale. Though I don’t have an exact number, I would say that since the construction of the Arena in the summer of 2003 we have constantly bedded down…
The warm room at the Arena pretty much paid for itself today. Jen went up to do morning check this morning at 6AM and found that Blossom had given birth to a happy, healthy, dark fawn female. That the baby was up and walking with mom’s placenta already expelled and cold means that it was…
We’ve spent the last 5 days or so shifting the farm into it’s winter stance and I’d been meaning to (and probably still will) snap a photo or two to show you all what that entails. Of course I thought that with our pastures essentially used up for the season that we were just being…
For years we have felt that non-breeding alpaca males are the natural by-product of a serious breeding program. While everyone must of course use their own standard when evaluating young boys (and sometimes older boys too), we generally feel that if we are really asking ourselves whether a given male is a legitimate Herdsire prospect…
