Before I had alpacas, I thought I knew tired. I thought I knew fatigue and even exhaustion. Tired was a long day at work followed by the tedium of making dinner , then a couple of hours of recuperation before you went to bed. Fatigue was a whole week of long days or maybe a [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Exhaustion Redux
Posted in Alpaca Life and Musings, Breeding and Reproduction, Health & Herd Management, tagged alpaca, alpaca breeders, alpaca delivery, birthing, cria, dystocia, thisbe on May 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Alpacas Are Not a Pyramid
Posted in Alpaca Industry and Business, Information for Alpaca Breeders, tagged alpaca, alpaca breeders, alpaca business, MLM, multi level marketing, pyramid scheme on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A summary of why the alpaca business is not a pyramid scheme.
Is Breeding Like Baking?
Posted in Alpaca Life and Musings, Country Life, tagged alpaca, alpaca breeders, alpaca business, baking, breeding, cria watch on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s a day for baking. The temperature has dropped twenty degrees from yesterday and the overcast skies seem to support the forecast for rain. I’m on cria watch still and trapped here pretty much all day. It’s also our fourteenth wedding anniversary. Put all that together and that says CAKE to me. I love to [...]
Survivor: Alpaca Edition
Posted in Alpaca Industry and Business, Alpaca Life and Musings, Information for Alpaca Breeders, tagged alpaca, alpaca breeders, alpaca business, alpaca musings on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
May is a busy month- besides the final spring shows, ending with Nationals end of May/early June, there is shearing in our part of the country and this year, something new. For consecutive weekends in May, there have been three different open houses/marketing events south of Denver alone. All of them for the first time. [...]
Hold on that Herdsire Purchase!
Posted in Alpaca Industry and Business, Information for Alpaca Breeders, tagged alpaca, alpaca breeders, alpaca business, alpaca studs, herdsires on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reasons to hold on purchasing your first alpaca herdsire until you’ve gained experience in alpaca breeding.
How I Learned to Knit
Posted in Fiber Arts, tagged alpaca, Fiber Arts, knitting on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How I learned to knit in Germany
The Five Phases of Cria Watch
Posted in Alpaca Life and Musings, Breeding and Reproduction, Information for Alpaca Breeders, tagged alpaca, alpaca breeders, alpaca delivery, alpaca musings, birthing, cria, cria watch on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am on cria watch. The expectant dam is a first time mom named Aria. I purchased Aria when she was just three months old. Now, over two years later, she is finally due with her first baby. Although the years have flown by, they feel now in memory like an eternity. During cria watch, [...]
How $5 Equals $15,000 in the Alpaca Business
Posted in Alpaca Life and Musings, tagged alpaca, alpaca breeders, alpaca business, alpaca musings on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was a teenager, I had an allowance of $5 a week. We weren’t allowed to work part time jobs because my parents wanted to be sure we were focused on our schoolwork. That $5 covered buying gum, candy, ice cream, and going out weekends with friends. That $5 paid for independence and freedom [...]
The Fall of the Waitron
Posted in Alpaca Industry and Business, Information for Alpaca Breeders, tagged alpaca, alpaca breeders, alpaca showing, dress code on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s GWAS (Great Western Alpaca Show) weekend here in Denver. I’ve just arrived home after an exhausting weekend. My feet ache and my legs feel like they’re locked in a standing position for eternity after just three days. All my clothes are saturated with the odiferous scent of paddock-condition alpacas. In my last class as [...]
