Alpaca Blog at Walnut Creek http://www.walnutcreekalpacas.com/blog Blog about our alpaca farm and country living in Oklahoma! Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:25:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Free to good home http://www.walnutcreekalpacas.com/blog/free-to-good-home/ http://www.walnutcreekalpacas.com/blog/free-to-good-home/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:20:56 +0000 Karen http://www.walnutcreekalpacas.com/blog/?p=1048

Two free kittens

We’re offering two kittens free to a good home. They are out of our calico mom, she is one of our barn cats. These two kittens are cuter and sweeter than the rest of our barn kittens. Both kittens would make great pets as well as keep your barn free of pests. Their moms taught them how to hunt so they are very good at catching mice and grasshoppers.

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Rockefeller’s ribbons

The Alpacas in the Ozarks Show was Masterpiece Rockefeller’s time to shine. Rocky won the Blue Ribbon in the Huacaya Light Fawn Male 2 Years & Older class and Color Champion for the Huacaya Fawn Male Championship! Rocky is out of Carol, a beautiful black female, and sired by El Accoyo Rubio, a gorgeous full Accoyo male. Way to go Rocky!

Our alpacas at the Ozark show

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Alpaca and horse share hay

Walnut Creek is celebrating 12 years of raising horses and alpacas! Thanksgiving is the perfect time to share from our hearts… to say thank you and to give thanks for all of God’s blessings.

The picture for this Thanksgiving post was taken when Kilo accidentally got into the alpaca pen. We found him eating hay with the alpacas. The alpaca in front of him is Clover. She didn’t . . . → Read More: Heartfelt Thanks

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Rose grey alpaca cria

Our girl Ruthie had a rose grey cria! Rose grey is one color you don’t see too much of in alpacas especially on our farm.

I’ve always been drawn to the grey alpacas. I just love their color but when we first started in alpacas most of the greys back then had coarser fleece than what I liked. Their fleece also didn’t have enough character to my liking. . . . → Read More: Rose Grey

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Magic's female cria out of Jennivere... soooo cute!

Well I’m overdue on my alpaca cria update… so far we’ve had 20 babies here at Walnut Creek and one more cria on the way for our fall alpaca breeding season. Our crias this year are stunning… we have babies sired by Classic Peruvian Magic, BF Toscanini, BF Riccardo, BF Giacomo, and more.

We breed our females up to the end of December. Actually I try to . . . → Read More: One more cria due

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Magic alpaca cria

By early September I thought we were done with the 100 degree heat. Unfortunately we got hit with another week of 100′s the first week in September. Our female alpacas did great all summer until the 100 degree heat decided to hit one more time before fall. I guess the extra heat at the wrong time was too much for them. Some of our girls aborted and others had . . . → Read More: Busy with babies

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Premature alpaca cria

Our fall alpaca cria season started early this year. Last week Anya, one of our maidens, had a 30 day premature cria. This little guy was definitely not ready to be born. Initially he was so weak… he looked like a little rag doll. Alpaca crias usually weigh between 15 and 20 pounds and our little cria weighed less than 10 pounds when he was born. Since he . . . → Read More: Fall cria season starts early

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Big alpaca smile for you!

Walnut Creek Alpacas business days have changed. We are now open Sunday thru Friday 9 am – 5 pm. We are closed on Saturday for the Sabbath.

If you have questions about why we changed our business days or why Saturday is the Sabbath or if you just want to chat about alpacas please feel free to call or email us.

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It has been very hot here in Oklahoma this summer. That’s two summers in a row of over 100 degrees of scorching heat. This year our alpacas seem to be tolerating the heat a little bit better than last year. So far only one female aborted and no deaths… thank God!

Our alpacas spend the hottest part of the day in the barn in front of a large chicken house fan to keep cool. . . . → Read More: Hot summer update

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Lightning strike tree

We’re back… we have internet once again. This week I’m hoping to get back on track quickly and start updating regularly.

We found out why our internet went out… a tree next to our house was struck by lightning. The lightning hit our satellite dish as well as the modem. The lightning even affected the area where the modem connects to my computer. We had to replace everything! . . . → Read More: Lightning strike

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Our alpacas are without the internet! We connect to the internet with Hughes net via satellite. Our internet has been out since Saturday July 14th. We are able to connect at times but our internet speed is below 5 kb per second. Most of the time we are not able to connect at all. I’m having internet withdrawals!

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Tomatoes from our garden

The temperature here has been over 100 degrees for days now and the grasshoppers are back. Needless to say I think our garden is done. I was amazed we were able to save some of our tomatoes from the grasshoppers and the heat.

I canned my very first tomatoes… 8 pints yesterday and I’m hoping to get at least 8 more!

Canned fresh tomatoes

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