Welcome to Fiber Arts Friday! Next week we will have Mr.Linky set up so that you can link us with your Fiber Arts post or web page. We are looking forward to showcasing the many different fiber arts and all of our readers’ amazing projects.
Today we are featuring Mariann’s felted hats. Mariann is a fiber [...]
You know when you go to a petting zoo and they let the little kids give the calf or piglet a bottle? And the little creature eagerly gulps the milk down and almost knocks the kid over? Alpacas aren’t quite like that to bottle feed.
With alpacas, bottle feeding requires some technique. Sometimes newborn cria need [...]
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Occasionally I do leave the farm. One such occasion is when my kid-lets are in a Mardi Gras parade!
Fairhope, Alabama is one of the sweetest towns I’ve ever known. If you have never visited, you must! Fairhope is on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. Less than an hour from both Mobile, AL and Pensacola, [...]
I am always looking for good alpaca pictures to post on Alpaca Farmgirl. Fortunately an excellent photographer lives down the road, blogger extraordinaire, Lori at Just Pure Lovely. Lori considers herself an amateur but I am impressed with the photography on her site so I invited her over hired her to take some alpaca photos.
These [...]
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“Failure of Passive Transfer of Immunity” (FPT) is a big term you hear to describe what happens when a cria (baby alpaca) does not get the immunity it needs from it’s dam’s colostrum. The dam’s colostrum (first milk) is essential for the new cria’s good health.
Today we are doing ultrasounds. On our farm the alpacas are hand-bred, meaning that we put a female and a male in a run together and they breed. We observe this and record the information. Two weeks later we repeat this process. Once the female is pregnant she will spit at the male when we [...]
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Years ago, I was caring for an adorable, little cria named Bennie. Bennie kept getting sick, and against all odds, he kept getting better. He had pneumonia several times, many IV’s and even TPN (total protein nutrition IV). On 3 different occasions I kissed Bennie goodnight and goodbye, only to return again the next morning [...]
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