Lulin, the boss

Little Lulin, our llama cria who is two months old, is the boss of our two alpacas. She's the ringleader. They'll often follow her round the field and put up with trying to eat their neckerchieves.

Nuzzle and Scratch

Seamus and Brendan bear an uncanny resemblance to Nuzzle and Scratch, stars of Cbeebies! We love this programme, even though there are a few technical inaccuracies ie in their song they say that they 'have hooves instead of handies'! (Alpacas have toes with nails.) Go to www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/nuzzleandscratch/ to find out all about them.
The photo above is from the BBC website.

Boys outside

We finally finished the new field so Brendan and Seamus now spend every day outside with Gabby and baby llama Lulin. They get on well. Lulin is rather naughty - she often bites the boys' neckerchiefs and has even jumped over Seamus once when he was cushed on the ground!
They boys did their first trek on April 8th with the Howell family from England. They did excellently and made a very good impression on the trekkers.
Here's a super pic of Caitlin with the boys.

Bounding ahead

The alpacas have come on in leaps and bounds! They now love to go for walks and are very well behaved on their leads. It's been much easier to train them than I ever imagined. Here are a couple of nice photos of them with Caitlin and me on our last trek.
And some news on the halter front. The reason my order from Rocky Mount Llamas didn't arrive is that they had a huge fire there in early January. No human or camelid casualties, thank goodness, just the computer. But they are up and running again and the halters will be here soon. So the alpacas will have another red and blue halter each, and Gabby and Windy will have some super smart llama halters too.

Seamus at the door

Here's a nice photo of Seamus. He and Brendan are still quite nervous of going through doors!

Halters here

The alpaca's halters have finally arrived, not from Rocky Mt Llamas - no idea what has happened to that order, but from Christiane Giudicelli here in France. So Seamus now has a lovely blue halter and leading rope to go with his blue bandana, and Brendan has a red outfit. The two boys aren't particualarly bothered by their halters. I've slipped them over their noses while distracting them with tasty titbtis. They didn't bat an eyelid. I'll do that a few more times and then we'll take them off for a walk to make a serious start on their training.

Fab fabric

I have just bought the most beautiful fabric off ebay (from blanmo2005 to be exact). I have a yard each of black, white and blue alpaca pattern fabric. A photo will follow very soon. What am I going to do with it? Well, I have been planning on making all the llamas a bandana each. The two alpacas already have them and they look super. But this fabric's too nice for llamas! Caiti and I will have to get busy with some nice girlie things like scrunchies and little bags. Suggestions welcome please!