Avatar Alpaca Acres

12/23/2024

06/29/2013

FancyPants - what a pretty young male. Photo by Judy Stroh Roberts.

05/27/2013

This is Brooke, a solid black, young female. When she was born she reminded me of Brooke Shields with big, dark, eyebrows!!

05/26/2013

Today's alpaca is Julian (aka "Peanut"). You wouldn't recognize him after shearing. Tiny little boy, almost black.

05/25/2013

Jewel - a very pretty young girl. Sweet personality as well.

05/20/2013

This is Billy Rose, my big, multi-color grey male. Big guy - weighs almost 200 pounds! He thinks this is "his" farm.

05/19/2013

Meet Melissa - she was the first female alpaca I purchased (and the first suri). She has given me several beautiful crias; all female but one. Still looks and acts like a teenager!

05/18/2013

I took the camera out to the barn a couple days ago and took some photos while the animals are in full fleece.

This is Venus - one of my first females.

05/04/2013

Over the past few weeks, I have developed a major leak in my frost-free water hydrant by the barn. So this morning Steve and Errol dug a huge whole by hand with shovels to find the problem. Not an easy task to dig down 4-5 ft in wet clay. [The pipes were put in with an excavator!]

Problem identified and Steve is off to Tractor Supply to look for parts to fix it.

05/04/2013

It was warm enough today that Star was trying to figure out how to get to the water buckets and soak her feet. I always have to have the water pails somewhere where she can't get her feet in them, and dirty the water for everyone.

05/02/2013

Not that long ago I unplugged the electric water buckets. Today was the first day for fans!!! The animals are warm and uncomfortable -- and the flies are already terrible.