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This past Sunday evening we decided to give the alpacas their monthly Ivermec shot and to trim toenails. Monthly shots are hardly exciting anymore and usually none of the alpacas put up much of a fight. Clipping toenails turned out to be a totally different story. It turns out alpacas are fully aware of [...] With cria comes the need to find away to let them get away from the adults and have their own private little space to rest or get some extra grain or hay. Hence the invention of the creep feeder. A creep feeder is a simple concept of a space wide enough for a cria to [...] They call it the January Thaw. To me it’s a pain in the $(@*#. The snow pack by January has usually built up higher than the step up into the run-in sheds which means when a thaw comes all that snow melt runs right into the barn! It doesn’t help that our farm is also [...] Finally the weekend! I was so excited about being able to sleep in to 7am on Saturday morning. The week was busy with long days and short nights and all I wanted was to catch up on some sleep. All that hope turned to panic with M. jabbing me in the side at 5:15am Saturday [...] Today is the day of the month I feel like a junkie. Since I live in a region that has the meningeal worm my alpaca chores the first weekend of each month involves giving our alpacas a shot of Ivormec. My little cria Albina also got a booster of [...] Well I must say that our first experience with birthing and raising a cria has been an exciting one. I wasn’t expecting to be so involved though. I thought I’d share with you our hands on 2 month timeline for raising our little Albina.
Like most ranchers I’m sure we spent our Labor Day weekend hard at work. With a new cria due any week now it was long past due to put in field fence. The last thing I’d want is for a healthy cria to be born just to sneak under the fence and into the horse [...] At all the alpaca farms I visited everyone had a different method of feeding their animals hay. The general consensus was that alpacas (like any other livestock) will make a total mess of hay and instead of eating all of it will make it into a bed, poop or pee on it. All not good [...] When I first got into alpacas I moved them around in my 2 horse bumper pull trailer. After all I was a horse person first and it’s what I had. However it became apparent that a different mode of transporting alpacas was needed with the crazy gas prices now [...] |
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