Today by MH

Today was an interesting day, we picked up the old live stock trailer with 1 male and 2 female alpakas.. This was the first time I have ever touched, had an alpaka and they seem like they will make easy pets for the kids. The old fellow that had 70 of them basicaly will give you any of the "mixed" alpacka and lama animals for $100.00 each, but if you want a full blooded alpacka then he wants $300 for the females and $100 for the males.....compared to a horse, these critters are not so "violent" and small enough that if you have to, you can just pick them up.

The male is chocolet brown, 1 brown female and 1 white female......one of the females was pregnant and after tonight, so is the otherone. Seems the alpaka's are always in heat until pregnant which the whole thing will be a new 'education" as each animal is a little "differant"...the fellow also gave us 2 about 6 month old peacoks for free and picked up 5 more guinees as he has way too many of everything ands trying to thin the herds as he wants to move to kentucky within 3 years where he purchased some land and has a small trailer on.

It is always nice to "assume" these will be the first alpakas on the planet to consume oregano oil daily and as well what I call the adult de-wormer herbs in professional animal strength every day for the rest of their lives....as their ONLY medicine.

I guess they are somewhat like a horse and if you want to fix the males, you have to hire a vet to do it with a knife as the rubber band method will not work...which seems "wierd" but I was never around horses later in life to know what they all have to do with them when male....but I do know vets are famous for bleeding male horses so badly that they can kill them or worse, they bleed them so badly that they "damage" the horse for life. The only problem having 2 males is they would fight....

To me, the alpaka and lama sure looks like the same animal, only differant in size and sine they both inner breed with each other, that also makes me wonder if there is really much differance.

Pets come and they go, but they all have 1 thing in common, if they are going to live here, they will drink water with de-wormer in it every day of their life while here...

We now have the larger area where the black berries are located all chicken fenced in so nothing can get under the fence.....the one thing I told the boys would be cool to have in there with the chickens would be a few tortices....the area is so large you can barely see the chickens in it, so that is as close to free range they are going to need and plenty still enjoy flying in and out of the fenced in areas and on the outside they may be free, but they are also hawk bait, dog bait, coyote bait, cat bait, you name it, once on the "outside" they are fair game for everything that loves bird meat, which is about every predator out there....

People are talking more and more about seeing wolves in warm weather, which proves there are way too many and wolves with coyotes all over populated basically makes small children unsafe near a woods by them selves....which is something normal humans got rid of well over 100 years ago, but now the un wants the top predators stocked all over america.....some people poison them, shoot them, etc. and no doubt the un/government will punish a person for killing a predator more than they will a person that kills someone in a fight at the local bar......it is a big thing in the rediculous cities to have cat and dog cops and even more rediculous are cat and dog hospitals...just signs of the times where the high educated ones have lost human family and took up animal family as the only way they can get long with a animal that will love them regardless.

PETS are fun, if you have the room for them OUTSIDE and because they often do not live a long life, they are an education to children about "death".