People are always asking me how we choose the names for our new baby alpacas (called cria). Here are the top ten ways we do it.
1. Look at the cria and see if he or she is just “looks” like a certain name or if the situation calls for something special. For example, when “George” [...]
After a long deployment in Iraq, my sweetie, Jim Cocking, is finally home! Actually, he has been home a while. We’ve taken the last month to have a honeymoon. Kinda. As much as you can on a farm with a passel of kids and a herd of alpacas. So not much of one now that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It started out a glorious morning. My beloved herdsire Magnum was coming home from a long breeding engagement in Colorado. Another of our herdsires, Firecracker, was on trailer as well. IN addition there were three other alpacas who belonged to me but that I had never seen in person – Guardian Angel (our Archangel daughter) [...]
Yesterday a cria was born on our farm. (A cria is what you call a baby alpaca). It comes from the Spanish word for “creation”. This little bundle of joy belongs to our friends, the Bowens, whose farm is Humming Star Alpacas. A few of their alpacas are being boarded with us while their barn [...]
Earlier this summer I came in from the barn and told everyone, “I just saw the sweetest thing that I have ever seen on this farm!”
“I saw the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen yesterday!” my husband Steve said.
We had both seen the same thing. Our macho herdsire, Magnum, kissing his daughter, Molly.
Magnum is the Mac [...]
Welcome to this adorable alpaca! Promenade joined us just after the World Alpaca Conference. She is from Alpacas of Alagaesia in Indiana. Leann of Alpacas of Alagaesia blogs about her alpacas and their fiber at The Fiber of Alagaesia. Leann is quite the Fiber Artist.
Here’s Promenade before her haircut this Spring. She’s called “Nade”. Rhymes [...]
I was on my way to my first crochet class. I looked out in the field and noticed a lovely little light fawn cria sitting up. Hmm. “That’s not Clark…Wait that’s Hope with that baby. That’s Hope’s baby! It’s here!”
Had to miss the crochet class. Ran over to her. Yes, it’s a her! We have [...]
Yesterday was a busy day on the farm. One cria’s arrival is enough to make us all stop, greet the new herd member, and then forget everything else we were supposed to do that day. Yesterday after picking up a sick child at school and Mexican food for lunch, I pulled into the driveway. As [...]
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