life... on the farm: Lightening

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Lightening - 10 days old

Lightening is now 10 days old. He's alert and fun, teasing the other alpacas and trying to get them to play with him. I think he will like it when Victoria and Kateri deliver their cria, he'll have someone to play with. Now he spends his time jumping over his mom's grain dish while she tries to eat, and taunting the other girls trying to get them to chase him.

Running:

Curiosity - he wanted to come and see my camera:

Pretending to eat hay. He is really too young to eat hay but he mimics the other alpacas. His sister, Sommerfield is next to him and behind her is Sancha, their mom. Sancha is mid-spit as she is annoyed at Sommerfield for something, which is a pretty typical scene between these three. Sancha easily gets annoyed at Sommerfield, but tolerates a lot from Lightening.

My niece luring Lightening to come up to her:

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The Adventure of a Lifetime

Our farming adventure began with the purchase of 3 alpacas in the fall of 2007. This eventually grew to an alpaca farm that birthed 23 cria. While we averaged 20 alpacas on a farm at any given time, we hit a peek of over 30 alpacas. We were involved in every aspect of alpaca farming: from breeding decisions, birthing, to attending alpaca shows, and shearing our own alpacas along with making product from their luscious fiber (hand spinning yarn and knitting product). We participated in 24 alpaca shows, and became very involved in the alpaca community.

In 2013 we added hair sheep to our farm.

Throughout this process we continued to tweak and revise our business plan. Our business plan evolved over time, and in 2013 it became clear that our goal was to raise grass fed animals for human consumption. While the initial plan was for this to go along side of alpaca farming, we slowly came to the conclusion our adventure was going to take us somewhere else.

In 2013 we began to sell off our alpaca herd to begin our new adventure with grass fed sheep and cattle.

Our adventure is still unfolding, so please, join us in our adventure of a lifetime as our journey unfolds.