Welcome New Millennium Alpacas

We’re pleased to annouce that we will be boarding the New Millennium herd for our friend, Janice Spalty, as she sells the herd and closes this chapter of her life following the loss of her husband, Dar, to cancer. We know it can’t be easy for Janice to see the … Read More

Reserve Champion White Male Alpaca

Here’s a photo of Aristides at the North East Alpaca Show. In my last post about this, I messed up his sire’s name.  It’s TNT Peruvian Hit Man.  Hit Man’s owners say Ari looks just like his dad.

Spring…

We’ve been blessed with some really beautiful weather this spring.  The last couple days have been lovely – 60’s and dry, clear blue skies and enough wind to keep the black flies down. The apples and lilacs are in full bloom and the air smells wonderful. It was a frosty … Read More

Frosty Morning

This morning was a good reminder that it’s still spring here in northern Vermont.  The temp was a frosty 25 when I checked at 5 am!  We worry about early morning crias on days like this.  But there were no babies when Ron did the early morning barn check on his … Read More

Spring storm

Wow – we just had our first thunderstorm of the season late this afternoon.  I was stuck out in the girls’ barn.  Torrential rain, wind, lightening.  Now,  just before it goes down,  the sun decided to peak out a bit and we have a beautiful rainbow – a double rainbow.

North East Alpaca Show

Our young white male alpaca, Aristides, won a blue ribbon and Reserve Champion at the North East Alpaca Show in Syracuse this weekend. David and Kathleen VanGelder from Cedar Brook Alpacas took Ari to the show for us.  Ron is busy with shearing this time of year. Many thanks to … Read More

Alpaca Shearing in the News

A news crew from News 7 at Lyndon State College was here today for shearing. You can check out the broadcast at: http://www.lyndonstate.edu/news7/ Just look for today’s date in the archives.  You’ll have to wait through the news and weather.  The students do a great job and are very professional!

Alpaca Shearing

We did a full day of shearing today and will do the same tomorrow.  Except for one alpaca that is going to a show next weekend, that should finish up our shearing. We’ve had some exceptionally warm weather for April, so the shorn alpacas are pretty comfortable. Of course, that will … Read More

Spring song

I hear the phoebe singing this morning.  Now that’s a sure sign for us that spring is really here!

Alpaca Shearing

We sheared five of our “big boys” yesterday.  They were warm when we sheared them, but the temps dropped last night and they were shivering this morning.  That’s the way it always goes.  It’s OK; we worry about them being too hot, but not about them being a bit chilly. They … Read More

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