The other day I went out into the field, and what did I find? A new baby!
Amber had her little cria. It’s a girl, and she’s doing well, bopping around. Playing with the other little girl we had last week. Our next cria are due today so we are on baby watch again for four [...]
This weekend alpaca farms across America will be hosting National Alpaca Farm Days on their alpaca farms. Our farm, Fairhope Alpacas, in beautiful Fairhope, Alabama will be open to the public on Saturday & Sunday, September 24 & 25th both days from 1-5 pm.
To find a farm near you, visit the National Alpaca Farm Days [...]
Jim and I bought our very first alpaca together. When we saw this little guy, Challenger’s Sir Charles, he stopped us both in our tracks. He was so cute and fluffy. He had so much presence!
Jim and I are supposed to be immune to that kind of charm, right? I mean we are both seasoned [...]
“When the sun gets hot and the moon gets hazy, good girls go bad, and it gets crazy!” — Unknown
This photo was taken of our some of our Fairhope Alpacas herd that is boarding in North Carolina with our friends at Augustyn Acres Alpacas. (I can’t fit all of our new alpacas at our farm [...]
Pretty Mya in the beautiful fields out West.
Above is one of the latest additions to our herd. Our farm, Fairhope Alpacas has recently acquired the girls from the Windy Ridge herd. We are so excited to add 20 amazing females to our herd. Later this Spring we will be sending our herdsire SCA Peruvian Magnum [...]
As a newbie to the alpaca business, I remember visiting a large farm when the owner’s walkie-talkie alerted her to say a new cria had been born. Excitement spread through the farm the way a human “wave” rolls through a stadium. That owner told me, “Everything always stops when a cria is born.”
And sure enough. [...]
Here she is. All 8 pounds of her. No, It’s not a necklace that she’s wearing, but a catheter, via Auburn’s Large Animal Veterinary Hospital where she spent a short time. But she’s home now and doing great.
Her mom didn’t know what to make of her at first, but now they are inseparable.
I bought her [...]
Saturday, November 6, 2010
An educational seminar designed to provide you with all the information you need to know to start your alpaca farm.
This seminar will be held at Fairhope Alpacas in Fairhope, Alabama, home to more than 40 [...]
She looked up at me innocently.
“What?”
“That’s how I drink,” she said.
Though it was weird, it was one of the cutest things I’d ever seen. I had to stop what I was doing and just watch her for at least 15 minutes.
This alpaca, Foxy Lady, was biting the side of the bucket with her teeth and [...]
A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of meeting a fiber diva, Roo of Moonwood Farm whom I had long admired – in the flesh! I had heard about this incredible lady and I had almost gotten the chance to meet her at SAFF. But every time I had gone past her booth, [...]
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