Herd health in May is lovely. We figured out many years ago that as long as we had each member of the herd restrained for shearing we could also do the bimonthly toenail trim as well as any dewormers and vaccines that were required. This works even better as we have two shearing stations but…
Just got back home onto the farm this morning after two weeks away. Hey: how about that February thaw that happened while we are gone, wasn’t that great?! What’s that? Oh. To say that halter training the new crop of juvenile show animals is going to be tough when the bottom two wires of our six-wire…
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…
weaner wean·er (wee-ner) -noun 1. A recently weaned animal. 2. A recently weaned alpaca at Cas-Cad-Nac Farm that behaves as if its world has come to an end while also constantly and simultaneously enquiring whether you, their shepherd, have any milk. So the first crias from the 2010 birth class have left their dams behind…
So herd health day yesterday wasn’t really so bad after all. Though it started out in the two smaller lower barns with just Jen, Kim, and myself by the time we started on the Arena, where the vast majority of the herd lives, we had a full compliment of victims: 2 holder/shot givers, 2 nail…
…and brand new sharp clippers!
