Heronview Alpacas

We had the Alpacas at the Fair again this year.  The Alpacas were a hit as usual. We always enjoy meeting everyone and giving people a chance to meet them and feel their fibre is important .  We meet many people who live in our community.

Come visit us on Wednesday April 8th. Durham Farm connections is held in Brooklin at Vipond arena.  We will be there with the Alpacas. There are cows and lambs and chickens it is open to the public  from 4:30 pm until 9pm

check out the website for more information

http://www.durhamfarmconnections.ca/

Come for a drive in the country.  16 Farms in the Durham region will be opening their gates to visitors.  Some locations will have chefs and be serving local produce.

We will have a tour with the Alpacas and you can meet and pet a miniature donkey. We will have spinners and weavers for you to see how Alpaca is made into yarn and into clothing. 

Visit the website www.gatesopen.ca

I am really excited to be part of this tour. Please let us know if you plan on coming. I look forward to meeting lots of new people.  We are also open weekly from Thursday - Friday from 10am to 5pm

They also did a video for the new at durham region page.  I have included the video on the video page of my website.  here is the link to the video  http://www.mediamash.ca/media/4067/Alpacas_Get_a_Hair_Cut/

Thank goodness shearing day is over for another year. We have a lot of fun but boy is it a lot of work. I am really happy with our fleeces this year. They are very clean too so our hard work to keep our fields and barn clean has paid off. Hardly any VM in them at all. Our top fleece weight got to Myster Luv with a total of 13 pounds usable and 2 pounds we scrapped. So 15lbs in total. WOW!!  Sunny was second with 10lbs of fleece.  Between the two of them I will have lots of yarn . 

We will be entering several of our fleeces in the Navan fair fleece show. We feel they warrant being shown and hopefully we will bring home a few ribbons. So far we have gotten ribbons for every fleece and animals we have shown.

I will post pictures if shearing day as soon as I get mor organized. Ok I promise it will be soon

Meet our new little boy. His dad is Myster Luv and his mom is honey .  He is a beautiful Fawn boy with lots of tight curls. He looks a lot like his dad.  He is a sweet little boy who walks right up to you and lets you pet him .  Here he is

Please submit your favorite names to Lori  at  leolvr@sympatico.ca

We will give a prize for the winning name.

Today of course when I was not home !! I did tell honey not to have a cria today. She enver listened !!  Ed called to tell me we had a new edition :-)  I had to wait until I cam home from the fair to see the little guy.  He is a little boy and his dad is Myster Luv. His mom is Honey.  He is a beautiful fawn boy and I will be posting pictures soon.

I would love some input on naming him and the winning name will win a prize from The gifted Alpaca.

I am off to the fair today so if you are going to the fair drop by and say Hi. I will post more info on the contest and pictures of the little guy too.

Heronview Alpacas will be at the Brooklin Spring fair again this year.  We had so much fun last year and met so many people.  We will once again be located in the Agricultural Tent.  We are taking part in Education day on Friday. We will be there with Nike and Dillon. Come by and say Hi and meet the boys.

We will also be bringing some wonderful alpaca products from our Store the Gifted Alpaca. Come by and browse the Products and see the Alpacas

Well Holly is doing great and is up and around. 

We bred Raven to Lorenzo today. He sure is quiet compared to when Sunny is breeding. I think  Sunny wants to entire world to know what he is up to !!  Hopefully we will get a black baby from this breeding.  Lorenzo has a basicly black pedigree.  Raven's mom is black and her dad is grey. Then again we are talking about Alpacas so we could end up with a white baby 

Went today and finalized the sale of our  portable for the new store.  Hopefully we will have it set up on the farm in the next 2 weeks.

I am excited  to have a real store on the farm. 850 sq ft.  Yikes hope I have some customers!!

Had another amazing thing happen today.  Savannah my 3 yr old Leonberger saved a kitten from our pool. The kitten must have fallen in and she reached in with her mouth and picked it out.  Animals always amaze me!

Today was a pretty exciting day.  I had made arrangements for  Lorenzo a black Alpaca to come and stay with us. We are useing him to breed to our black girl Raven.

9:30 am  Lorenzo arrives.  We put him in a paddock and go and look at the other Alpacas.  I notice one of my girls is laying down.  Then  I see this little head sticking up above the grass.  Holy crap Innocense had a baby! She was not due until the 27th of August.

I rushed over to look and make sure she was ok.  We must have only missed the birth by a few minutes. she still had the membrane over her whcih we pulled off.  She is a strong little girl , oh did I mention she is a girl!!  That made it even better. She is rose grey and is very pretty and very crimpy.   She was up and nursing within the hour.

I thought Margarette was going to  have her cria also. So I was going out and checking on her  hourly!

go to my website and have a look at our new baby girl. We named her Holly.  www.heronviewalpacas.com