Sue Loach – 13 September 2021
Last weekend saw the first National Alpaca Farm Day for us all. I have to say I agreed to take part with some degree of trepidation, and I spent ...
Kate Brookes – 6 September 2021
As I write this I am preparing for a large Camelid Dynamics course to be run on my farm, with a trainer coming from the USA and learning is at the ...
Clara Boulton – 1st September 2021
It has been a lovely Summer down at the farm, with our small group of cria. I dare say we have had a relatively easy year.However, our bigges...
Ron Mackintosh – 9th August 2021
A few days in the life of an alpaca farmer......... As we neared the end of our birthing season and after ten days of 30°C degree heat, when thankf...
Elaine Clarke – 26th July 2021
The last few weeks have been wall to wall sunshine…a very welcome treat and something that we don’t frequently experience in Northern Ireland! ...
Judith Newman – 12th July 2021
Hi everyone, I hope that all is well with you and your alpacas and that those of you who breed are getting some beautiful healthy cria on the ground....
Paul Hetherington – 5th July 2021
Birthing is slowing down now after the boom in May and June – we have 57 cria on the ground already with only 10 left to birth. Gestation times we...
Kate Brookes – 22 June 2021
Embers, the cria with a kink One Sunday tea time I went to feed my mums and cria and noticed that Embers, a 5 week old cria, had a very obvious kin...
Sue Loach – 15 June 2021
Crikey I can’t believe how quickly this year is passing, Summer seemed so far away last time I wrote my blog. Most of us are in the midst of the ...
Duncan Pullar – 8 June 2021
What next when the phone rings? You never know quite what the next phone call will bring to the BAS office. This is both a joy and a terror, depe...