Recent content by Whispering Winds

To me, just the fact that I KNOW what that pig ate is good enough for me. Wanting to get a couple here in the next year, as soon as fencing is complete. Some farmers will even give you the runts because they don't want to mess with them, and they grow just as good usually as the others. Maybe...

They are easy to care for. I have 18 and other than not being able to keep up with the poop piles they are just about the best mid sized animals to have. ALWAYS get them sheared, had a llama down the road from me die a couple of summers ago because they didn't believe in shearing, "its the way...

Supposedly, alpaca poop is the best thing for grape vines, so that might be a market for you! I have more than I know what to do with, but we spread it everywhere and work it into the garden area and our asparagus took off like a rocket, so Yes, its good. Actually, I was always told its second...

A friend brought back a large herd of Alpacas from Maryland 3 summers ago and I bought a bred female Suri with a cria at her side. We were good that first year, wormed them as usual, no problems. The following summer, in July, hot as blazes I come home and the little girl was down with heat...

I lost my gorgeous brown alpaca boy, Jude, to the tick. It was so far down in his ear we never even knew he had it. I found him dead in his stall one morning, and my dear good friend drove over an hour to get him and take his body to the U of I for me for a necropsy and he was perfect, the...

:lol: My Alpacas are suppose to be cold weather lovers, but they hang out in the barn all day, hardly stick their heads out when its cold like this!! I think the cold loving gene has been bred out of mine group!! The first sprinkle of rain and they are running like crazy back to the barn...

Yes! Don't do 36" like DH did, and now I can't get anything but a wheelbarrow thru to clean. . .I have 18 alpacas, and that's a lot of poop. I tried to tell him at least 4' but he thought his idea was better. . .the wider the better for sure!!!

So sorry for your loss, I understand. I lost two Alpacas this summer and two babies. . . broke my heart. The male had the Spinose ticks, if I am spelling them right and the female had the barber pole worm and cocci. I have 7 others and treated them with a horse wormer, 1200# dosage for the...

If it makes you feel any better, I watched Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs helping at a sheep farm, and the guy there, (which just sent me into the shivers), slit the sac and BIT the cord off with his teeth. They say they get over it twice as fast and they had banded a little boy to show him how they...

OMG! I was gone all week-end to Lebanon, Mo to the Fiber-U Seminar and wondered if Max finally got to come home!!!! Give us a short version please, ROPO! I put ROBO, thought you were a robocop or something, I guess!! :P

Are they $$ to buy? My DS and I would love to have 2 little goats. Then 3 . .4 . . .6 . . .9 . . .really just 2!!

I am in Bond County; about 55 miles E of St. Louis, right off of I-70.

That is so great! I am waiting for a baby Alpaca as we speak down in Missouri!!! I should be having one at home in Sept. Such a sweet baby and hope the mama is o.k. too!!

Hello everyone,I have been on here for a few weeks, and said a few words, but thought i would write a little bit more info! Not too many from my neck of the woods it seems. . .I live with my husband and 8 year old grandson that we adopted last year on 5 acres in a tiny little town on the...

What can be done for her? Can you neuter her to help control some of the hormones, or how is this handled?