Actually, there is ONE time when we really want our alpacas to spit.
That’s when we do a spit test to check whether or not our females are pregnant. In the alpaca business our goal is for our females to be pregnant most of the time. Selling breeding stock is where the majority of our income [...]
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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