Blue Tongue Protection Zone in South East Wales:

The Welsh Assembly Government have at last confirmed that from Friday 27th June, South East Wales will become a BT Protection Zone, in response to DEFRA's extension of the Protection Zone in England. We will be collecting our vaccine from our vet and vaccinating our entire herd this weekend. We have seen reports that alpacas suffer flu like symptoms and a few breeders have reported more extreme reactions, including one suspected death. Fingers crossed that our treatments go smoothly.

As part of our herd development plan we have recently acquired a new herd sire to stand on the farm. He is a solid white peruvian huacaya called Florentino. He is a well conformed and handsome fellow with a dense 21 micron fleece. We will be using him on some of our stock this summer. Meanwhile, with movement restrictions lifted, two of our girls will be travelling to Bozedown Alpacas to be served by their premier stud sire, Galaxy and their stunning black, Thunder. Some others will be making the acquaintance of Classical MileEnd Alpacas' Avalanche and Distinction, who we have used in the past and have always been pleased with the results.

We also acquired a nice group of male yearlings, as we find them to be very popular with our customers. So cute!. Last year we saw many groups of two or three going off to paddocks and orchards across South Wales. If you think you might like to have some of these attractive young chaps, then please get in touch quickly, as from experience, they don't hang around for very long. We have a range of colours to choose from.

For those of you who would love to keep alpacas, but don't have land available at the moment, you may be interested in our new Access to Alpacas™ initiative. Just click on the link for more details.

Our farm has been awarded the status of a Local Wildlife Site, for the quality of its ancient pastures and diversity of grasses - something of a rarity these days. We will be displaying our plaque with pride.