It’s that time of year again…we’ve weaned most of last year’s crias and they are big enough to wear halters comfortably. This means it’s time to start lead training. We start by fitting the alpacas with halters and letting them wear the halters for short periods for a few days. Sometimes they seem unfazed and…
The last few days prior to a show, especially the first show of the season, find us hauling out our “show box” – dirty from a winter in the barn – and scrambling around for all the show essentials: banners, tables, fans, water buckets, halters and leads, tool kit, cable ties, duct tape, etc… And…
OK, so we’re coming up on mid-March here and it still looks like mid-winter. Nevertheless, spring show season starts in 3 weeks with the North American Alpaca Show. We’re showing 5 of our males – one adult, one yearling and three juveniles. Only one of the five is currently lead trained. All the alpacas are…
On Tues, Jan 25, Ron will be at the Vermont Farm Show at the Barre Civic Center for the day. He will be representing the Vermont Llama & Alpaca Assoc and will have two weanling alpacas with him. Our weanling group has been getting some lead training this past week and some are doing better…
We’re having a mild spell, so we decided to wean a few of our older, larger crias. Today each of them had a brief halter training session as we weighed them and walked them to their new pen. Looks like this group is going to need a little more work…