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 [...]

September 13th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, daily stuff, Fairhope Alpacas, Foxy Lady, huacaya, The Blais Alpaca Company | Category: Alpacas, The Daily Stuff | Comments (7)

Meet Lunesta!

It was the face that got me. The perfect bite and delightfully advanced fleece reinforced my decision to bring this girl home to our farm. Her dam is a powerhouse, producing cria who have won at least Blue Ribbons and including several Champions. Lunesta’s maternal brothers are even producing Champions themselves. So you can [...]

August 11th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, herd, huacaya, Lunesta | Category: Alpacas, New Additions | Comments (11)

This is for my readers who are new to alpacas and have no idea what I’m talking about. Read this if you have no idea what an alpaca is.
The following are some terms that we use in the alpaca world that you may not be familiar with:
CRIA. A cria is a baby alpaca. From the [...]

January 25th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca breeding, Alpacas, artificial insemination, breeding, cria, criation, dam, embryo transfer, end products, female, fiber, fleece, gestation, harvest, health, herdsire, huacaya, locks, luster, luxurious, male, orgling, shorn, Spanish, suri, Suri Cruise, teddy bear, Tom Cruise, yarn | Category: Alpacas | Comments (6)