“Tumbleweed” from Humming Star Alpacas
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May 26th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, Humming Star Alpacas, shamelessly cute alpaca | Category: Alpacas | Comments (17)

There in the field was a little treasure. Adorning the green, green grass of spring, was this beautiful bright blue birds’ nest. It had fallen from its lofty throne, sometime during the winter months when the last of the winds blew the last leaf off the bare branches, leaving only silhouettes [...]

May 25th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, birds nest, CIABA, Crown Point, felt, fiber, nest, recycling, The Green Alpaca, treasure, Val Newell | Category: Alpacas, Nature | Comments (6)

Sista Quita
The other evening I was walking out to move the alpacas out into their pastures, (these days it is too hot for the alpacas to be in the fields during the day so we pasture them at night) and I noticed Poquita was breathing very hard. I moved another group of animals and kept [...]

May 24th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, alpaca cria, alpaca in labor, Alpacas, LuLu's, new cria, pastures, Poquita, Sista, Sista Quita | Category: Alpacas, New Additions | Comments (16)

May 21st, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, boon, cartoon, Oil Spill, stockings | Category: Alpacas, Oil Spill | Comments (4)

Four alpacas from our local Gulf Coast zoo “donate” their fiber to soak up oil from the the oil spill in the Gulf. Learn more in this informative video from National Geographic.

(See if you notice anyone we know doing the shearing in that video. Leave a comment and tell me if you recognize that ole [...]

May 17th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, alpaca fiber, Alpacas, Gulf Coast, national geographic, Oil Spill, video, zoo | Category: Alpacas, Oil Spill | Comments (3)