This little beauty was recently born to Sonyadore and our 5x Champion herdsire SCA Peruvian Shawnee. Congratulations to our friends and clients the Lees on the birth of this lovely little girl. Thanks to Cindy Labbie for sharing the photo.
Finding A Time and Place
I have to admit that washing the alpacas’ fleeces is not my favorite job. Alpaca fleece lacks the lanolin that sheeps’ wool has so you don’t have to wash them before spinning. Some people spin alpaca “raw” then wash the yarn.
I wash alpaca fleeces if I am going to process or [...]
Today we are doing ultrasounds. On our farm the alpacas are hand-bred, meaning that we put a female and a male in a run together and they breed. We observe this and record the information. Two weeks later we repeat this process. Once the female is pregnant she will spit at the male when we [...]
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