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!
Podcast Tag: cria
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.
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 following day!
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. Listen in for a catch up on life in the valley with the alpacas.
What does it mean
Catch up on the valley happenings and musings. A little bit of sad news and the change of season seems to be arriving.
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.
Talking Australian Alpacas
Listen in as Steve and Rita talk alpacas, particularly how life with alpacas is developing having started with four and grown to 35! Be warned it could happen to you!
Sleeping like a baby… alpaca
The three alpaca priorities are to: eat well, sleep well and explore like mad, so you can make sense of the world and know how to live in it safely. Priorities we can all live by!
Lessons from the pandemic and weaning
What is it that we’ve learned from the pandemic with a Valley full of alpacas? Routine and rhythm help. Alpacas like their space and there is another day to come.