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Alpaca Walking season coming to an end

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Walking Alpacas Seasons End Well what a great year we have had walking our alpacas and shearing them with the general public.   We have had over 700 bookings We have taken over £25,000.00 in tickets Our Alpaca shop only open for a month has taken £900 We have had 9 Cria born  The alpacas have munched there way through £900 worth of hay We have had a 100% positive feedback from our guests We have sold 7 alpacas We have had a great year and we are now selling tickets for 2016 and have already sold 20 so far! Alpaca Walking   And don't forget we are now doing Alpaca Adoption or Adopt an Alpaca Looking forward to next season which starts in February 2016!  Who says Alpacas ain't profitable ?

Adopt an Alpaca

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Adopt an alpaca Hensting Alpacas have listened to your requests and this time it was for a way you can adopt an alpaca, just like the larger companies that offer this type of service , like Adopt A Pet So we thought what a great idea and we now have a page under construction, which you can find here. Adopt an Alpaca  You will also notice another exciting thing with our website, we are now https:// secure! this has been quite hard work to get the pages that we want to be secure, for example the alpaca walking page and booking tool. So we are going to have 2 types of adoption packages gold and silver and like I say pop over to the website it has all need to know about how to adopt an alpaca

Pet Alpacas For Sale

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Pet Alpacas For Sale So what is it that makes an Alpaca a pet.  Well quite simply its an alpaca that is not made the mark to become part of the breeding program.  For example his fleece is not dense enough or not fine enough or has no crimp, shine or handle.  Of course females would only become pets at the end of there lives when they are unable to be bred from.  A male pet or guard, yes guard, because did you know an alpaca in a group can kill a fox! they scream at it and run towards it and if it don't move they will then jump up and down on it to kill it all together. An average price for a pet alpaca for sale would be about £500 plus vat.  Vat is included because they are recognized as exotics so the price must include vat. Here is a couple of examples of pet male alpacas for sale  pet alpaca for sale with its mum

Grey Alpacas

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Grey Alpacas  Here at Hensting Alpacas we are very lucky to have 2 Grey Female Alpacas.  Little Eskkrig Koala is our 5 year old female who was mated to Inca Grey Flight in 2014 and on May 9th she had our first Grey Cria Hensting Sweet Rohana .  This Grey Alpaca  is what is know as a Tuxedo Grey because she has a white face, white bib and white front feet. Here she is with her mum, and I think you will agree she is stunning  Also did you know grey is a very rare colour for an alpaca only 5% are grey

www.westvirginiaalpacas.com/index.htm

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http://www.westvirginiaalpacas.com/index.htm A new cool alpaca website with some nice pictures on Westvirginiaalpacas is a great looking alpaca site and helps with the listings of the main site. have a look around and let me know your thoughts westvirginiaalpacas.com/index.htm

Alpacas and Horses

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Can Horses live with Alpacas Simple answer is yes! they get along really well.  We have a New Forest Pony called Bryn, now Bryn came to us when he was 13 months old, he came off of the New Forest, he was then castrated and wormed, pass ported and then sold to us within 2 weeks! He is a fully registered new forest and because we go him when he was so young, we have been able to work with him nice and early, but one thing stood out about Bryn was he was a kind hearted horse and very gentle. Here he is in with his beloved Alpacas.  What we find is in the mornings when we turn up to feed them, he is asleep and around him are the alpacas all cuddled up to him keeping each other warm. I have not seen any anger from him towards the alpacas, in fact I think he thinks he is now an alpaca This is Bryn in one of his training sessions with flick our trainer.  Both Bryn and my children Faith and Isaac are under training all together and coming along nicely. you can see more of the alpaca

Alpaca Farming

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Alpaca Farming alpaca farming here in the Uk seems to be about 10 years behind Austrailia.  We as a country are catching up we now have well over 50,000 alpacas and the thoughts are that once we get to 10,000 then an industry will from around us, meaning the fiber will start to be procesed on a larger scale.  You will then start to see it in your local shops like marks and Spencer or Debenahams.  Have a look at this call video from Austrailia all about Alpacas in ozz