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Anyone own an alpaca?
Posted on 2/16/24 at 1:10 am
Posted on 2/16/24 at 1:10 am
Or have direct knowledge or experience thereof?
Seeking input or advice on raising these mighty beasts.
Thanks.
Seeking input or advice on raising these mighty beasts.
Thanks.
This post was edited on 2/16/24 at 1:19 am
Posted on 2/16/24 at 1:23 am to Havoc
I wear socks made of their fine hide. That's all I got.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 1:35 am to Havoc
Why do you want to raise an alpaca?
Posted on 2/16/24 at 2:49 am to Havoc
American Gangster
This post was edited on 2/16/24 at 2:51 am
Posted on 2/16/24 at 4:35 am to Havoc
Vision of Havoc and their new alpaca
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:08 am to Havoc
Thought about it, stayed with llamas.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:11 am to Havoc
My neighbor had a couple. They looked straight up miserable in the florida humidity.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:16 am to Havoc
My parents had a herd of about 20-25 for a few years when they were the next “big thing” for yuppies looking to leave the corporate rat race circa 2002 or so. After emu farming petered out.
What do you want to know?
What do you want to know?
This post was edited on 2/16/24 at 8:17 am
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:32 am to Havoc
You raising as a pet or for meat?
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:37 am to GeauxZone90
On the way to work I drive by a nice, suburban home with a large fenced in yard. They have two that come to the fence every morning close to a bus stop. I guess the kids throw them an occasional snack.
That’s all I got.
That’s all I got.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:46 am to SouthPlains
quote:
What do you want to know?
Ease of care (grampa had cattle so kinda familiar with grazing livestock), whether they are grazing livestock, temperament, feeding.
Real life shite not google/wiki shite.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:49 am to GeauxZone90
quote:
You raising as a pet or for meat?
Pet at first.
If that doesn’t work out, meat.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:55 am to BHM
Haven’t tried the socks (merino guy) but do have an alpaca sweater I picked up in Ecuador. Their wool is amazing.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 9:14 am to Havoc
- Ease of care
They’re more fragile than say llamas, so sensitive to shite like heat (they were bred to live in the mountains of Peru or whatever). Definitely not a “set it and forget it” type animal. You have to trim their nails (they kick like motherfrickers) and keep them shaved (again, heat) which is fine because fiber is where the money is. For the OT retards - you don’t milk, eat, or ride them. They don’t get into stuff like goats, but you gotta keep them away from alfalfa because they’ll gorge themselves and die.
- Whether they are grazing livestock / feeding
Yeah, but we had ours on feed/grain. They’re stupid animals, so they don’t know to distinguish between what’s safe to eat and what’s not (see comment about alfalfa above). They can graze just fine so long as you keep “bad” plants away and have good pasture.
- temperament
Stud males: assholes, but not as bad as llamas. They’ll spit in your face (stinks like hell and doesn’t wash out of clothes) and kick you. They also try to frick EVERYTHING. One of ours broke gates down and started an incestuous alpaca orgy.
Fixed males: chill, pretty independent and easy going
Females in heat: moody
Pregnant females: needy (medical) but mostly just lay around
Moms: chill, so long as you aren’t messing with the baby
Another thing I’ll note - there’s a lot of bad paperwork on bloodlines and whatever. Say you pay $10k for a stud and you come to find out he’s the product of incest like 3 generations back, suddenly he’s only worth $2k and you can’t stud him out because, again, incest. He effectively becomes worthless unless you neuter him and use him for fiber.
They’re more fragile than say llamas, so sensitive to shite like heat (they were bred to live in the mountains of Peru or whatever). Definitely not a “set it and forget it” type animal. You have to trim their nails (they kick like motherfrickers) and keep them shaved (again, heat) which is fine because fiber is where the money is. For the OT retards - you don’t milk, eat, or ride them. They don’t get into stuff like goats, but you gotta keep them away from alfalfa because they’ll gorge themselves and die.
- Whether they are grazing livestock / feeding
Yeah, but we had ours on feed/grain. They’re stupid animals, so they don’t know to distinguish between what’s safe to eat and what’s not (see comment about alfalfa above). They can graze just fine so long as you keep “bad” plants away and have good pasture.
- temperament
Stud males: assholes, but not as bad as llamas. They’ll spit in your face (stinks like hell and doesn’t wash out of clothes) and kick you. They also try to frick EVERYTHING. One of ours broke gates down and started an incestuous alpaca orgy.
Fixed males: chill, pretty independent and easy going
Females in heat: moody
Pregnant females: needy (medical) but mostly just lay around
Moms: chill, so long as you aren’t messing with the baby
Another thing I’ll note - there’s a lot of bad paperwork on bloodlines and whatever. Say you pay $10k for a stud and you come to find out he’s the product of incest like 3 generations back, suddenly he’s only worth $2k and you can’t stud him out because, again, incest. He effectively becomes worthless unless you neuter him and use him for fiber.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 9:14 am to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
A friend of ours has four females and she recently got a young male.
She said those females treated him like a red haired stepchild at
a family reunion.
She said those females treated him like a red haired stepchild at
a family reunion.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 10:26 am to SouthPlains
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an incestuous alpaca orgy.
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