Each cria season I have some favorites. Occasionally I fall hard for one. Like George here, who was born on President’s Day. He makes me weak in the knees.
Happy Wordless Wednesday.

March 31st, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, alpaca cria, cria, cria season, George, President's Day, Wordless Wednesdays | Category: Alpacas, New Additions, The Daily Stuff, Wordless Wednesdays | Comments (19)

from Ann Merriwether, Nyala Farm Alpacas
This Fun Project really celebrates Spring. In this project you will learn how how to make
Two Kinds of Alpaca Fiber Felted Easter Eggs
Get some of those plastic eggs and get ready to felt around them. With these directions you can make two kinds of Easter eggs.
For the first kind you [...]

March 29th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, alpaca fiber, Ann Merriwether, carded dyed fiber, Easter eggs, felted easter eggs, felted eggs, felting, Fiber Arts, foam felted eggs, needlefelted, Nyala Farm Alpacas | Category: Alpacas, Fiber Arts, Girl Stuff, The Alpaca Lifestyle | Comments (14)

Online Degrees recently published their list of the top 50 Best Farm and Agriculture Blogs of 2010.
This list includes blogs on ag news and information, sustainable farming, and farming big and small. They also list blogs about agricultural science, ag politics, and ag policies.
I was tickled that our Alpaca Farmgirl Blog was included in the [...]

March 24th, 2010 | Tags: agriculture, Alpacas, blogs, farm, online degrees | Category: Alpacas, Resources, Weekly Web Finds | Comments (10)

I thought we would hit 100, but it was only 97. (I can just hear Mac in the background now saying, “Only 97?!!” incredulously.)
That’s Mac above with the hat and the gloves. He and his wife, Mary, have helped us for the past three years on shearing day. They are spinners. Mac works the ropes [...]

March 24th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, alpaca shearing, alpaca shearing day 2010, Alpacas, Shearing Day | Category: Alpacas, Husbandry, Lifestyle, The Alpaca Lifestyle | Comments (9)

I admit I’m nervous and I’m rambling… We are shearing the alpacas tomorrow. The head count is hovering near 100. We have never sheared 100 alpacas. In 2009 we sheared 77. Every year I get nervous, and every year it goes off without a hitch. Maybe it’s like putting on a big Broadway production. Whatever [...]

March 19th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, Alpaca Farmgirl Etsy, Alpaca Farmgirl Shop, alpaca fiber, alpaca shearing, alpaca teddy bears, alpaca yarn, AlpacasLive, Bulk pricing alpaca fiber, fiber, Individual alpaca fleeces, Marc Loffhagen, Shearing Alpacas, Shearing Day, Twitter | Category: Alpacas, Husbandry | Comments (15)

Or If Werewolves Got In Touch With Their Feminine Sides

from Imgur and shared with me by my dear friend Terry at sknitter.
Participating in Wordless Wednesday.

March 17th, 2010 | Tags: Alpacas, Jacob Black, Twilight, werewolves, Wordless Wednesdays | Category: Alpacas, Wordless Wednesdays | Comments (7)

My usual way of breeding is to have female alpacas come to my farm and breed where I have control of the situation. Last year, for a variety of reasons some of my customers and I decided to bring my boys to their girls and do mobile breedings at their farm. I made several trips [...]

March 15th, 2010 | Tags: 3 seconds, alpaca, alpaca breeding, Alpacas, breedings, customer service, false positives, female alpacas, pregnancy diaganosis in alpacas, pregnancy testing, progesterone, progesterone testing, retained cl, ultrasounds, veterinarian, vets | Category: Alpacas, Good Breeding, Husbandry | Comments (5)

Gorgeous Award-Winning Photo of alpacas in the snow taken by Carolyn Hitchcock on her Virginia alpaca farm
Cameron Mountain Alpacas
Participating in Wordless Wednesdays

March 10th, 2010 | Tags: Alpacas, award winning, black and white, Cameron Mountain Alpacas, Carolyn Hitchcock, snow, Virginia alpaca farm, Wordless Wednesdays | Category: Alpacas, Lifestyle, Wordless Wednesdays | Comments (13)