a new male joined the alpacas at dove farm this week. He is called Flame - totally unused to being handled in any way, so things will be pretty interesting in the alpaca pen for the next couple of weeks! We have just let him settle in to his new home for a day or two - then tomorrow, I will start on getting him used to human contact.
We hope that Flame will be one of our 'walking' alpacas by summer time. I am frequently asked why we will not be using our females for alpaca walking. In principle, there is no reason why the girls shouldn't or wouldn't enjoy going out for a walk, but practicalities cancel out the training efforts required.
For a large part of the year, the females are either in early pregnancy, and should not be stressed, or in later pregnancy, where the same applies, or we don't know if they are pregnant or not! - or they have a baby (cria) at foot. We might reconsider, but for now we are aiming for an all-male walking team!
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