Alpaca Blog at Walnut Creek

Coming and going

Karen — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:12:05 +0000

I was trying to take a special photo for a very good friend of mine for Mother’s Day… she is the owner of Magic’s first cria. Her alpacas board here so she doesn’t get to see her babies unless I take pictures.

I tried to get a good shot for quite awhile but this little alpaca was just a brown blur. This time I can’t blame the camera… it was definitely me. . . . → Read More: Coming and going

Out of focus

Karen — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:21:58 +0000

Heads up to anyone that owns a Pentax K5 camera because the auto focus on some of the K5′s needs to be calibrated. It appears that some of the K5 cameras are back focusing. Last year when I bought the Pentax K5 I thought I would have so many wonderful alpaca pictures to share with everyone. I was so excited when the K5 arrived because it’s so superior, in every way, to my . . . → Read More: Out of focus

Magic Cria

Karen — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:45:18 +0000

Classic Peruvian Magic is now a proven alpaca herd sire! The other day Magic had a gorgeous brown male cria hit the ground. Wow what a stunning boy. I opened up his fleece and his fiber is already very bright and crimpy. Magic is definitely throwing himself not only in fleece type but in appearance too. We have an awesome Magic mini-me here!!!

This little alpaca is not owned by us . . . → Read More: Magic Cria

Brown Puccini cria

Karen — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:37:44 +0000

Brown Puccini cria

Charmyl finally had her cria and this little alpaca is so adorable. He’s big, beautiful, brown and look at all those curls! That’s a lot of great colorful crimp and Puccini is the sire of this handsome boy. Benvenuti’s Puccini brings awesome genetics to our farm. His sire is Victor’s Hemiaccoyo Apocalypse and his dam is The Admiral’s Peruvian Epiphany the daughter of Caligula’s Accoyo The Admiral. Wow . . . → Read More: Brown Puccini cria

Breech alpaca baby

Karen — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:37:32 +0000

The other evening right before we went in for the night we noticed Autumn acting a little odd. We watched her for a little while and nothing happened. Alpacas are so stoic and they can hide any kind of symptom really well so we decided to stick around. After a few minutes she went to the potty pile and all of a sudden a leg popped out. Something didn’t seem right . . . → Read More: Breech alpaca baby

Puccini’s first cria

Karen — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:39:46 +0000

Our first alpaca baby this year is also Puccini’s first and Wendie’s first cria too! He’s a beautiful beige boy and he already has lots of luscious crimp. I took a closeup of his sweet face. I just love to take pictures of alpaca baby faces especially when they’re sleeping. This boy has perfect conformation with excellent coverage and I think he has the presence of a herdsire already! We have more babies . . . → Read More: Puccini’s first cria

Alpaca Blastoff

Karen — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:55:36 +0000

Ribbons won at Oklahoma Show

The A-OK Blastoff Alpaca Show was this past weekend in Shawnee, Oklahoma. My husband, Dave, brought 8 alpacas to the show. I was very excited to see how our alpacas would do this year. I stayed home this time because we have several girls due very soon and I just couldn’t leave them. By the way… I’m still waiting!

The Oklahoma Alpaca Show had three judges this . . . → Read More: Alpaca Blastoff

Resurrection Day

Karen — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:51:46 +0000

You’re probably wondering why my headboard is the featured picture for Resurrection Day, Easter. Well I would like to share something very special with you. My Aunt gave me this beautiful cherry wood bedroom set years ago. One evening I prayed at the foot of my bed and asked God to be more real in my life. I know God is spiritual and we’re physical but I felt like I needed a . . . → Read More: Resurrection Day

Ruby and JuJu visit

Karen — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 03:31:42 +0000

Every spring and fall we have female alpacas visit our males for breedings. This spring we are enjoying not one but two special visitors. Ruby’s all grown up and she’s returned for a breeding to Classic Peruvian Magic. She has a beautiful cria with her that she had with BF Giacomo. Her name is JuJu and she’s an absolute doll! She reminds me so much of Ruby when Ruby was a . . . → Read More: Ruby and JuJu visit

Controlled burn

Karen — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:29:21 +0000

Burning leaves by the alpaca pen

Every year I do a controlled burn to as much of our place as possible. I call the Forestry Services for Oklahoma and let them know what I’m doing and then they issue a conformation number for the burn. In fact most of southeast Oklahoma does controlled burning right before spring. To keep smoke to a minimum we only burn when the leaves are dry and the . . . → Read More: Controlled burn

Herd Management Software

Karen — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:12:44 +0000

Alpaca management software

We’ve had a few people email us asking which alpaca herd management software we use so I thought I would pass some information along to anyone interested. We’ve been using which I think is the best alpaca management program out there… AlpacaEASE also known as HerdEASE. We started with this software a little over a year ago and I have to say I absolutely love it!

I was amazed at how . . . → Read More: Herd Management Software

Alpaca day out

Karen — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:39:57 +0000

Mazaratti and Da Vinci tango

In this picture it looks like these two alpaca males are fighting but actually they were just showing off for the girls. We put the males and females in the north pens for the day so they could eat green grass. The pens we moved them to are right next to each other so all of the alpacas were busy flirting and acting silly.

Alpacas are funny to watch. . . . → Read More: Alpaca day out