Today April Agnotti from Benevenuti http://www.benvenutifarm.com called by with her friend.
Its always great to show an experienced alpaca farmer around your place, share common issues and hear what they do differently on some fronts. We have so much we can learn from each other its a shame really that we don't take more time to visit each others place.

We try to keep the place organised and as clean and presentable as possible. We work on the basis we should be able to handle a farm visit at 30 minutes notice. Now thats a goal which we don't always achieve but it does help us from sliding into bad habits.

In the afternoon I laid DG down the central road between the pastures which will make a big difference once the winter weather arrives, once again the trusty John Deeere did its stuff, if only my back box skills were better...oh well practice makes perfect..almost.

Its very late in the year but we need to fix up some breedings for some of our open females. We have already purchased two breedings, one from Jan at Derwydd http://www.derwyddalpacas.com and one from Al and Jan at Happy Valley http://www.happyvalleyalpacas.com/ we bought the breedings at the AlpacaMania silent auction so I will be reporting back on progress.

By Adrian Stewart