4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[The Dogmother]

Thought you'd find this interesting....

[Chickvic]

Quite fancy one myself - until I saw the price

[Space Chick]

Same her Chicky

 

Maybe HEN can make us some

[chickric]

Quite fancy one myself - until I saw the price

 

I was going to say do you want one, then I saw the price

[HENthusiastic]

Hiya *waves*. Thanks Claret, there was some interesting stuff about alpaca fibre on there. Not suprised its expensive, there mst be a lot of fleece goes into each quilt. Mind you, it could be the fleece that isnt good enough quality for making into yarn.

One thing they got wrong though (excuse me being pedantic) but it actually ISNT wool. A lot of the benefits that the article mentions are because structurally it is different ad thats why its called fibre, or yarn rather than wool. But I guess thats irrelevent to selling quilts

[henriette]

I have three Alpaca fleeces sitting in a box in my shed I used to spin but don't seem to have the time nor the inclination at the moment. They came from the Alpacas I had in the UK and I haven't the heart to throw them away. They might well be too old now for spinning. Anyone know?

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[henriette]

oh dear, something happened to my photo and spelling. sorry

[Chook n Boo Mum]

I have three Alpaca fleeces sitting in a box in my shed I used to spin but don't seem to have the time nor the inclination at the moment. They came from the Alpacas I had in the UK and I haven't the heart to throw them away. They might well be too old now for spinning. Anyone know? I hope it's ok to post a photo of them I miss them so much but it wasn't possible to bring them over at the time. Luckily the people who bouth our house wanted to have them so the had a good home.

 

Has that worked? You'd separated the at the beginning of the photolink & that prevented it from showing........they are gorgeous beasties, what are their names etc?

 

Sha x

[henriette]

I thought I had done something like that. Thankyou.

Their names are (left to right) Beto, Chico and Paco. I say are, but I have a feeling their new owners changed them. We couldn't afford to be females, so we had three castrated boys. They had lovely natures and were great fun too. We had harnesses for them so took them out for walks every day. They were also a great fox deterrent. Could certainly do with them here as we have loads of foxes.

[HENthusiastic]

henriette, they are totally gorgeous!!! I love your chestnut lad. Did they really do the business with foxes? Mine don't seem to be very brave boys at all. They have actually been seen being teased by the foxes, who edged slowly up to them and then charged away as soon as the alpacas got up, only to do the whole thing again. My lads are castrated males too. Aparently they have the best temperament for 'pet' alpacas.

 

It may be that they were too young, or not settled into their new home yet though. I now rely on electric netting for the chickens.

 

Do you think you will ever get any more?

[henriette]

Yes. they really did keep them away. For 3 years we had no problems at all - the hens, the ducks and the geese all free-ranged over 4 acres of land without any mishap.

They did actually nearly kill one once, but it was poorly to start off with.

We did look into having some more over here, but decided that it was going to be too expensive and also, not sure how much help might be available for doing their feet and sheering them etc. We're not as young as we used to be

Do you spin their fleeces? How long have you had yours for?

[Lewis]

 

I saw the sheep duvets on My dream farm

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I thought it was duvets FOR alpacas till I opened the link .

[HENthusiastic]

Yes. they really did keep them away. For 3 years we had no problems at all - the hens, the ducks and the geese all free-ranged over 4 acres of land without any mishap.

They did actually nearly kill one once, but it was poorly to start off with.

We did look into having some more over here, but decided that it was going to be too expensive and also, not sure how much help might be available for doing their feet and sheering them etc. We're not as young as we used to be

Do you spin their fleeces? How long have you had yours for?

 

I wonder why my lads don't deter foxes? Maybe it was just too soon after they move in. Id love to let my girls freerange properly (they do have a very big area), but daren't risk it after what happened early on.

 

I do spin the fleeces, I find it very peaceful thing to do. I have a scarf that I spun and knitted myself and I'm so proud of it. It was my very first spinning and I'm fairly jnew to knitting, so its full of mistakes! I just love the fact it is from my own animals though.

 

I bet their fleeces are still okay to spin. Go on......... dig them out and have a go. Nothing to loose!