Sue Loach – 13 September 2021

13 September 2021     British Alpaca Society

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

06 September 2021     British Alpaca Society

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

01 September 2021     British Alpaca Society

  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

09 August 2021     British Alpaca Society

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

21 July 2021     British Alpaca Society

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

12 July 2021     British Alpaca Society

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

05 July 2021     British Alpaca Society

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 

22 June 2021     British Alpaca Society

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

15 June 2021     British Alpaca Society

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

08 June 2021     British Alpaca Society

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...