by nikkigrant | Jun 15, 2021 | Meet the Herd
Heather. Today I would like to introduce you to Heather. A lovely dark brown alpaca. Heather is by far our tallest girl, the only one who can get her head and neck about eighteen inches out of the top of the crush when being handled. She thinks she is the alpaca... 
by nikkigrant | Jun 15, 2021 | Meet the Herd
Tibbs. Patou Tiberious, to give him his full name, came to live with us in 2019. It was a bit of an accident actually, well, at least unintended. We went to the Somerset County show one glorious late September day in 2019. My plan was to sit in front of the alpaca... 
by nikkigrant | Jun 15, 2021 | Meet the Herd
Elouisa. Rushmere Elouisa was added to the herd in 2019 with Felicia, Hera and Claudia. They brought the grey gene to the genetic mix. up to this point we had white, (lots of white) fawn and brown. This big, bold, upstanding girl is mother to Solomons Aurora Dew and... 
by nikkigrant | Jun 15, 2021 | Meet the Herd
Marc Anthony. Purston Marc Anthony is his pedigree name. Quite an auspicious name really, as his sire was an alpaca of renown called Purston Peruvian Kim, who is also Elouisa’s sire. Kim has sired 178 cria! That is truly going some. lol Marc Anthony has a long... 
by nikkigrant | Jun 15, 2021 | Meet the Herd
Say Hi to Batty! Please let me introduce Solomons Batty Ballerina. She is daughter to the very dominant Heather and Ellington. They have both been introduced to you, so you will probably be aware that Heather is very hard to manage, the guardian of the herd, she is... 
by nikkigrant | Jun 15, 2021 | Meet the Herd
Bertie Today’s profile is of Solomons’ Burlington Bertie. Bertie is not quite a year old yet, having been born on 5/5/2020. Sadly though, he is pretty much an orphan, as his sire is not part of our herd so he never met him, and his dam (mum) was Emmanuelle...
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