Alpaca Wool
Is is cold and snowy here, but the alpacas don’t seem to mind too much – although I do note they are actually using their shelter at the moment. So […]
Tag Archives: alpacas
Snow Day
We don’t get much snow round here so this was quite a surprise. The pigs, alpacas and ewes were all rather stoical about it. The goats (and chickens) on the […]
Cutting toe-nails
Today we trimmed the alpacas’ hooves. Today for the first time since we got the alpacas (maybe 5 or so years ago), I actually trimmed their hooves. Normally I help […]
Brussel Sprouts
A friend called, his girlfriend wanted to know if we could use 500kg of brussel sprouts that a local supermarket were looking to off-load. Err, yes, of course we could. […]
Inky Dinky Do’s Scarf
The wonderful and suitably weird Adam from weirdweekends sent me a scarf. This is, however no ordinary scarf. Some time ago I sent an alpaca fleece (Inky Dinky Do’s) and a […]
Jude’s view
We have a guest photographer on the blog today – Jude. He took some gorgeous photos of the smallholding and animals at the weekend so here is a little slice […]
Alpacas and Pigs
On Saturday’s egg collection we had a special visitor. Eva, the girl who nearly two years ago showed me how to make pig tails straight was back. And she gave […]
Lamb Fleeces
We have raw Jacob lamb fleeces to sell and giveaway. They are beautiful and soft and perfect for spinning or felting. I am selling them for £4 each +pp. If […]
Overcoming Fear and Kindness
Alpacas are quite large and they can seem scary, especially to children. There was a lovely girl staying on the site who helped feed the lambs with me and Ethan […]
Blossom
The blossom on the fruit trees and bushes has been beautiful this year ….. so on this cold and windy day here are some memories of warmer spring days and […]
