Our aim is confident and fulfilled owners of happy and healthy alpacas. We want happy and healthy owners too but that's for another day. Let's think a...
Always learning and seeing the positive as well as the problem
Each day with alpacas is a new opportunity to learn something - either about your alpacas or yourself! While we look for problems - and rightly so, we...
5 reasons for keeping alpacas
Into Autumn in the UK you start to ask yourself, why are we keeping alpacas? I can think of lots of reasons - here are five. You have 'the alpaca gene...
Autumn has arrived – no, really this time
Autumn is a special time of year - the light, the colours, the wind the rain! We have been having some Welsh rain and the lake is now full. It also me...
A late alpaca arrival
In the previous episode, I mentioned I was giving up on the last three potentially pregnant alpacas. Just to prove me wrong, Olwyn gave birth the foll...
Can you be right every time?
It is not possible to always know the answer and the right thing to do. But this podcast can help you to lean in the right direction. To learn as we g...
What does it mean
Catch up on the valley happenings and musings. Cria behaviour - nature or nurture? A little bit of sad news and the change of season seems to be here ...
Sitting about with the alpacas
Cria, like most babies, seem to turn up when they are ready. More waiting means more sitting around with the alpacas - which is quite a treat actually...
Millie the alpaca matriarch is a bit of a stick in the mud
Millie had an adventure - as did we all. And this one needed the assistance of the Fire and Rescue Service - to whom I am immensely grateful. It could...
Always keep an eye on your alpacas - you just never know
I spent some time with the girls after mucking out and topping up the water. There seemed to be a fair bit of talking, even though they were pretty la...