Ballymac Alpaca

26/07/2026

🪒 Cria Shearing at Ballymac ✅ 🪒

The babies got their first haircuts 🥹🥹🥹

We cria shear as the amniotic fluid in mums womb makes the fleece tips brittle which means they are walking hay bags picking up every little bit of debris in the field. Now their fleece is usable in fibre production 🧶

We do this early enough so they have lots of regrowth before Winter sets in.

All of the babies were very brave and ran straight back to Mums when it was all over.

There is always a small risk that mothers can reject their cria post shearing. Aaron shears them so they have lots of fleece left on their tails. After some suspicious sniffs all cria were happily reunited with their dams 🥰🥰🥰

25/07/2026

💙🩷That’s a wrap on birthing at Ballymac for 2026🩷💙

Ballymac Burnt Moon arrived last week as the final cria of the season 💙💙💙

Dam; Urcuchillay Evening Star
Sire; Bozedown Major League

The girls beat the boys again this year 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🥳

15/07/2026

🐕 Troy the dog trainer 🐕

😂 Finally, the dogs listen 💪

16/06/2026

🩵 BALLYMAC JAFAR 🩵

Jafar is a mummy’s boy, a very good looking mummy’s boy 🩵🩵🩵

Dam; Ballymac Yasmine
Sire; Popham Churchill

10/06/2026

Thanks to Massimo and the team at Iveagh Vets 🥰

The Duchess is happily pronking round the fields after her plasma transfusion last week 🥰

04/06/2026

👋🏽 BALLYMAC OHANA 👋🏽

Ohana is so friendly and photogenic that it’s taken over two weeks to pick our favourite photo of him to post 🥰

Sire; Popham Churchill
Dam; Houghton Meara

🥰🥰🥰Ohana means family (iykyk) 🥰🥰🥰

27/05/2026

🖤🖤🖤 BALLYMAC RENAISSANCE (Renny)🖤🖤🖤

This true black (EEaa) little lady is an absolute joy

Renny has been claimed by our youngest helper as HER alpaca, hence the art 😂😍

There’s another on the never for sale list 🥰

Sire; Inca Grey Orion
Dam; Houghton Liberty

16/05/2026

15/05/2026

👏🏽 👏🏽 BALLYMAC ENCORE 👏🏽👏🏽

Our third cria of the season arrived in a hurry on Monday and has been pretty chill since 💤

Sire; Popham Churchill
Dam; Meon Valley Ariadne