Our shearer was a little late so I was off the hook this year as I had to do the kindie run. Can't say I minded in the least! So it was over to the shearer, his assistant, the other half and our neighbour. We generally have someone else of the male persuasion around to help with the heavy lifting (persuading the alpacas into the shearing shed) and our neighbour kindly "volunteered". We have been doing it for a few years now and are a well oiled machine, especially when I am n

So the AB's got another World Cup title. Fantastic final and an amazing team. But time to move on to the start of our alpaca show season... We were away for the National so just sent fleeces and got a Reserve Champion Medium/Dark fawn fleece with Romeo's first fleece. Plus a couple of firsts and seconds. This weekend we went to the Waikato Show and took Romeo, Jasmine and Rainbow Dash in person. Jasmine got Champion Brown and Romeo got Reserve Champion Intermediate Male a