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Alpaca Shearing Day, May 28, 2010

Black Pearl had her cute Bay Female Cria over Memorial Day weekend. (Sunday, May 30th, 2010) She was already up and nursing by the time we saw her, so the birth must have went well.

Uncle Hans came by today so we could try out our vacuum blower to clean off the alpacas before shearing this Friday…

Robert and I picked up 3 new alpacas this month that will be ajisting with us. Their names are Chamille, Paloma and Cassia and their owner Martha says they are for sale at the bargain price of $15,000 for all 3 to anyone who may be interested! (Chamille and Paloma are Cassia’s Crias). Inquire within if interested!

We bought Golden boy as a yearling from the late Dennis Miller of Alpaca Palms because he won a first place ribbon and he is the Son of the famous Kahuna, but we still didn’t know how he would turn out as an adult and we are proud to say that he has turned out “very well, thank you!”

Yesterday, after we checked his teeth (which only needed a little touch up grinding) we took these pictures of him and his fleece and I’d say we have a winning Herd Sire to start breeding our females with this year. We are very happy and proud of the way he looks and he has a sweet and gentle nature too. We can’t wait to see the off spring he produces!

Most people don’t know that (Some) Alpacas need to have their teeth trimmed every year, (I know I didn’t know!) so I thought I would share this video of how we do it…pretty interesting! (And very squimish for people to imagine this…So “Caution” to those who can’t handle dental work!) I’m very proud of my Husband Robert who is a “jack of all trades” and learned how to do it from the Best of the Best. (The late Dennis Miller, owner of Alpaca Palms in Wildomar, CA…Thank you Dennis for teaching us this last year…we love and miss your presence here.)

To view the link, go to www.youtube.com and search for OldCastleAlpacas. (You will have to write it in exactly like that to get to our page (no spaces in between).

Love my morning greeting! Look at all those happy faces

Twinkle and Braun Moreno’s cria was born on March 6, 2010.
(He was up and about “pronking” within a couple of hours.)

Twinkle had her Bay brown male cria yesterday on a cool and drizzly afternoon…The Sire (Father) is Braun Moreno. He weighed in at 21 pounds, that was our heaviest cria born yet! (The average is 12 – 16 pounds) He’s all legs!

After having mostly boys last year, it was a pleasure to see two very nice females born on the ranch! The white girl is almost pure Accoyo from Rosita, the most expensive Alpaca we bought when we started…