Had a visit from the Animal Care department of the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic. Two of our boys will soon be heading off to help teach their students about camelids. Their students go on to work in a range of environments including animal parks and tourist attractions where you do increasingly see a couple of alpacas. It is fantastic that the interest in alpacas has reached a level that they will now be included as part of a Poly's animal handling courses. They have chosen Si

And the last Parsifal was a...boy. Beautiful but a boy. Parsifal was a legend among suri stud males and we have been privileged to be able to use him for the last nine years. Unfortunately he died in September last year. He remained consistent to the end. If only it was a girl...

Last year we had our first ever complications during birthing season - and it came in threes: a vet out to help with unpacking a cria, bottle-feeding and a broken leg. And our first baby of this year managed to get his leg stuck in the fence within a few hours of being born. I guess he stumbled and went through the fence. I found him when I went to check on him before nightfall and managed to prise his leg out. On the positive side he was at such an angle he couldn't struggle