Snowshoe Aristides is working!

Our newest herdsire and white male Color Champion, Snowshoe Aristides, has settled his first females!  We had two positive ultrasounds last week and have at least a couple more females that have been bred and are continuing to spit.  For those of you who are not familiar with breeding alpacas, … Read More

Mia’s cria

This male cria was born on Saturday to Mia, a female who is owned by Starry Mountain Alpacas and boarded at Snowshoe Farm.  The not-so-little guy weighed almost 20 lbs and was standing and nursing 45 minutes after hitting the ground!  Now that’s what we call an easy birth… ten … Read More

Heat Wave

We’re having a stretch of very hot and humid weather that’s a bit unusual for us.  Thank goodness! Neither Ron nor I like this weather. And the alpacas don’t like it much, either. We spend a lot of time trying to keep the alpacas cool in this weather.  Of course, … Read More

Hay

We picked up our first load of 2010 second cut hay yesterday! We usually get our first load of hay in late August, so this is early and very welcome! It always feels so good to start putting up hay for the season. You have to keep in mind that … Read More

Cria #9

Our newest cria was born yesterday morning. We’re not sure yet if this young male is fawn or rose gray.  His grandsire is gray and he does have a gray tint to his fiber. We’ll see how it looks over the next few weeks. The gray fibers seem to grow … Read More

Rainy Monday

Another wet day. The grass and weeds are loving this, but we’re not.  The garden needs weeding and the lawn needs mowing. And wet weather means wet dogs – ugh! We’re hoping to get a break from the wet weather soon, but the forecast sounds like we have scattered showers … Read More

Catching up

Spring is a very busy time on the farm for many reasons, but mainly because Ron is busy shearing at other farms every day. Now that shearing is winding down, we are starting to catch up on all we let slide for the last few months…like posting to our blog. … Read More

It’s a girl!

After three boys, we finally had a female cria born yesterday. This girl belongs to our client, Nu Leafe Alpacas, from Calais, VT. She’s a beautiful, light fawn cria with lots of energy!  I couldn’t keep up with her yesterday; she was up and nursing in no time and wandered … Read More

Newest cria

BC, a female alpaca owned by a client, gave birth to a fawn male yesterday. This was another easy birth with a vigorous cria who was up and nursing in no time.  Makes my job a lot easier!  It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day for a cria to be … Read More

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