Pinnacle Alpacas

12/06/2026

The arrival of Pinnacle Arturo ❤️💙

28/05/2026

🌟It’s 2026 cria time!🌟💙

Welcome to the world Pinnacle Arturo. On yet another blisteringly hot May day,
Giselle decided that 333 days was quite enough and delivered a healthy boy in textbook style. 👌🤍

Dam: Pinnacle Giselle
Sire: Pinnacle Artisan Dream

Having such a plentiful supply of milk is, of course brilliant, but teats this large can pose a problem for tiny mouths of newborn cria, so we will be keeping a firm eye on him to ensure he is properly nursing and not overheating or becoming dehydrated . 🥰 So far, so good 😊

Management is everything in these first vulnerable days with extreme heat.




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26/05/2026

The alpacas seem to be keeping cool despite the sweltering heat 🥵. The class of 2026 thankfully staying put even though there are some grumpy, uncomfortable girls but the trees are not fairing so well in this unprecedented May heatwave. An Ash has crashed the badger fencing in the stud field 😩 and another Oak (300 yrs) at the entrance to the stud field has succumbed to Chicken of the Woods fungus, along with Honey Fungus and a vertical twist 🙈😩so sadly condemned today and the process to remove will now begin before it falls. Tomorrow will be busy for all the wrong reasons 🙈

17/05/2026

Summer ready and nice to see the sun back again today. Happy alpacas in the orchard as Tonka, Goldrush & Precision look on 👀😂 #

16/05/2026

Ready for summer but winter returned. Clouds, rain, thunder, lightning & hail before and at the end of shearing and the dams stampeded for the safety & warmth of their barn and the comfort of hay and their safe place.

Seraphina coated for last night’s dip to 2 degrees 🥶 as 24 hours on from the shock of shearing she was not at all herself and chilled. So important to keep a careful eye on things like this 👀and to be ready to act if needed.👍

Thankfully with the added warmth, she pleasingly perked up and was back to eating hay with the others. 😊

09/05/2026

It’s been a strange day today. First the arrival of a swarm of honey bees 🐝. A huge commotion and much time taken up arranging for their retrieval, before they then suddenly upped and left 🥲. Then it was time to take advantage of the beautiful May sunshine 🌞 and finally get some photos ahead of shearing.

Sadly though, despite earlier checks, we found our birthing season had unexpectedly begun way ahead of schedule (10 months) for one of our dams who had sadly birthed a premature cria in the barn that we had missed. Kicking ourselves as we had been here all day, no indication of anything untoward and not a dam that has ever delivered prematurely before! 🥲

A little fighter that had clearly got onto his feet but would have needed immediate assistance (at this age and being only 4.3kg) that we had been unable to give in time. 💔🌈.

Maybe it was natures way, as these early arrivals so often need a great deal of intervention, but so sad to see and a very muted, grieving herd of females awaited us at their afternoon check 🥲.

The first time we have ever missed a cria arrive in this way and it was absolutely heartbreaking 💔💔

04/05/2026

🌟Finally home from a lovely Bank Holiday trip down to the North Somerset Show. 🌟

It was a claggy, early start, turning into a downpour and a delayed beginning to showing as we all waited for the clouds to clear. 🙏

Thank you Gary Naish and all your team for all your hard work and dedication organising this ‘All Star Wars’ inspired, fun show. ‘The fourth was with us’! And big thank you to judge Tim Hey for his detailed oral reasoning throughout, for each animal placed at the show and to Ollie for Ring Stewarding. The clouds did pass and judging began in earnest.

We took a small team of six animals and came home with 2 x 🥇, 3x 🥈 & a 6th along with two Reserve Champion Sashes. 👏👏

We were delighted to see Pinnacle Silver Phantom taking another 1st Adult Male Grey 🩶 along with Serenity’s Secret, who also went on to be awarded Reserve Champion Light Female Huacaya 💛

We were also absolutely thrilled to see Miss Yumeko (Japanese for dream child and a Tonka daughter from Dream Girl) being awarded Reserve Champion Fawn Female Huacaya 🧡 and Tim stressed the Champion & Reserve were a very tight pair!

Miss Yumeko turned out to be the reserve Fawn to the Champion who went on to take Supreme Champion, Congratulations Wolfridge. 🙌🥂. Miss Yumeko was a bit scared of the big sash in the wind at first 😂 but soon decided it was not as scary as she first thought 😇🥰

It was lovely to catch up with people and to meet new alpaca folk but the day raced by so quickly in the end it was impossible to speak to everyone.

Congratulations to all the Champions and Huge congratulations to the two Supremes, from Dark Sky & Wolfridge 🏆🏆🥂👏

25/04/2026

🌟Alpaca agility anyone? …… Someone seemed a little hungry! Eating for two 🥰😂 😂😂

25/04/2026

What a great fun show last weekend at the South of England Alpaca Show.

Thrilled to see so many happy exhibitors and the constant smiles all around. The sun shone, the public loved it and the alpacas all seemed pretty chilled too.😎

It was a real treat to be able to welcome the founder, Liz Butler to the show (originally the Llama & Alpaca Show) and to see her eyes twinkle and her absolute pleasure at seeing the SoE Alpaca Halter Show take pride of place right in the centre of the Showground.

SoE is and always has been a friendly, yet highly competitive show and this year was no exception. Congratulations to all the Champions and to Acton Hill with their Judge’s Choice, Best of British & Supreme Huacaya and to Pure Alpacas on Judge’s Choice Suri, Snowshill Alpacas for Best of British Suri and to Spring Farm on their Supreme Suri.

Jonathan and Angie Adkins stepped up to the plate at their first SoE Show and were a formidable team and Angie was the perfect recording steward to have on board and Allan and Amanda White had the biggest smiles at their first ever alpaca show and were unbelievably helpful in staying at the end to help hoover and roll up the carpet with us!🙏

To those who jumped in to handle our animals, Nigel & Katie, George and Paula a big thank you.🙏

We were particularly pleased to see
🌟🖤Pinnacle Precision 1st Adult Male & 🌟🖤Reserve Champion Black Male Huacaya 🖤 [Sire: Inca No Strings]

and to see Pinnacle Mystique take 1st Senior Roan Female and another Reserve Champion Roan Female Huacaya sash.

Pinnacle Artisan Dream - 1st Senior Fawn Male 🧡

Pinnacle Elegance - 1st Senior Fawn Female🧡

These two Senior Fawns were praised for their exceptional uniformity of micron, particularly for their age and were easy 1st places according to the judge. 😁

Elegance was expertly handled by Nigel 🙏 which was very fitting, as she is currently carrying a Herts Tonka cria 😍😊

Thank you to everyone who helped us with the show and for all your lovely supportive comments and to Nick Harrington Smith who judged the show with such clear oral reasoning 🙏

We finally fell into bed at 1:30am on Sunday as the whole Robins building had to be cleared the same night!

Onwards now to one final show and to shearing, ahead of the arrival of the class of 26! 😁

16/04/2026