Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Another wonderful cria season “we had 3 dark fawn females" Zoom Zoom, Bonnie Blue and Halley, 1 white fluff ball female named Zemma and two silver grey tuxedo males, Sheridan and Khan. All have done very well and are growing so fast. Three of the crias arrived on a shearing weekend, so that slowed down the process a bit, but our helpers loved being able to watch the first steps of the crias.
Shearing in May this year was a bit more challenging thanks to Mother Nature's mood swings. One weekend read more...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
A group of seniors from the Adult Day Program in Dufferin County had the opportunity to visit the Kickin' Back Alpaca Ranch near Markdale in June. During their tour of the ranch they not only saw the 65 alpacas and their newborn babies, they also were introduced to art of spinning yarn from the alpaca fleece which is used for fine woolen products.
Shelburne Free Press Photos by Lynn Codd July 15, 2013
Remember to check out our facebook page, it is updated with photos more often than the Farm read more...
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Well by the calendar spring is here, by the weather it doesn't feel spring like yet.
The second weekend of April we attended the Alpaca Ontario Annual Spring Show in Orangeville. We had four entries in the Mary-Ann English Spin Off Competition and we won 4 “1st place ribbons with scores of 89/100 for Rosebud, 91/100 for Kanata, 92.5/100 for Shadow, plus 1 ribbon for Highest Score in Colour by High Plains Elvis with a score of 98.5/100. We are very pleased with these results. We also received 2 read more...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
If you are still looking for the perfect Christmas gift “give the gift of warmth" Alpaca.
We will be open daily 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Dec. 23rd. We are now accepting VISA and MasterCard to make your shopping even easier.
We have something for everyone! Warm cozy alpaca socks, gloves, mitts, scarves, cool chullo hats. Beautiful alpaca shawls, sweaters for men and ladies. Needle felting kits, alpaca hand puppets, super soft alpaca stuffed bears, lions, horses. For the knitter on your l read more...
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
We would like to thank everyone who came out to our first Alpaca Farm Day and Open Barn. It was a great success; we had a steady stream of guests all afternoon. There were many local neighbours and friends, others not so local, we especially would like to thank the other alpaca farmers who came out -your moral support is much appreciated. Of course a big thank you to Peak Builders for your support and the great barbecuing and our friends and family who all helped make the day such a success.
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Monday, September 17, 2012
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
The saying “Time fly’s when you’re having fun!” is true. We have had a busy few months, but have had a lot of fun too.
In June we became vendors at The Flesherton & District Farmers Market every Saturday. We take two alpacas with us, they certainly are attention getters. The first two months we took yearlings, Yazhi and Strawberry Moon. The last two weeks we have taken Raven and her three week old cria Shasta. Everyone loves babies.
In July we went to Career Day at two of the area librari read more...
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Things have been pretty busy for the month of May. It seems that fencing on a farm is an endless job. We put up more fencing by the females barn so they now have a huge, lush pasture with shade. We video taped the girls racing about the new pasture, it will soon be posted on our facebook page.
We spent a couple of busy weekends shearing our herd, thankfully we finished before the weather got really warm. We really appreciate our family and friends who came to help us shear, our youngest help read more...
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Come join us at the Alpaca Ontario Spring Show at the Orangeville Fairgrounds on Saturday April 14th. This is the largest annual full fleece alpaca halter show in eastern Canada, there will be over 350 alpacas attending. Free admission! We are taking three of our young alpacas to the show.
Judging of the alpacas takes place in two rings, all day Saturday, the grand champions will compete on Sunday morning. The young alpaca farmers will demonstrate their handling skills in the Youth Showmanshi read more...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
We recently volunteered to man the Alpaca Ontario booth for one day at The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto. What a great experience! There was a lot of curious interest in the alpacas, and others who were serious about alpacas and the fibre. We never had more than a few minutes of quiet time. Thanks to Henry Mengers of Andre's Alpacas for allowing Cido and Bota to stay at the Royal, they are both very "personable" alpacas.
Carolyn took her spinning wheel and was amazed at the numbe read more...
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