Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Before they were sheared

Ashley

Zulu

Depp and Zulu

Lillie and Zulu

Depp, Lillie and Zulu

Lillie and Zulu

Depp, Lillie and Zulu

Purvis

Zulu

Flibberty

Depp and Lillie w/ the boys

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Blessing of the Animals

Sadly, I was unable to take pictures of the boys @ church today. I had my hands full with them and the dogs, but 5 Alpacas and Levi, Gus and Miss Whoosie all received blessings at the early church service today.
The boys were extremely well behaved, especially considering this was their first outing and there were so many people crowding around them to see them, and lots of strange dogs as well.
Sirius Black decided he would be happier in the trailer and he missed most of the service. The other 4 stayed, and Flibberty even joined in the singing! :)
Ashley

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Monday, May 17, 2010

Behold...the Ash ford Kiwi....may we live together in peace and harmony :)

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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Depp and Zulu

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Sirius Black--too stubborn to walk

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Yippee!

I got 3 of the boys cornered BY MYSELF!!! And got Flibberty and Jibbet haltered. Soooo exciting!
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Progress

Sirius Black ate out of my hand tonight!!!!!!!!!

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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Tipton and Jibbet

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Sims and Sirius Black

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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Training

Sims and Depp helped with halter training and leading the boys today. And of course the socialization was great too!
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Shed

Great progress has been made today!
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Shed

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A shed for the boys

Happily, Terry is starting to build the shed for the boys. Soon they will be able to move outside!
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Friday, May 7, 2010

Why do we keep getting our picture taken??

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Sirius Black

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Zulu checking out the camera

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Flibberty

Wow! I am tickled pink. Flibberty ate out of my hand today. Zulu isn't thrilled about it either. He tries to push everyone else away so he can have it all.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Jibbet haltered and tied first time

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Flibberty haltered and tied for the first time

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Chowing down on some hay

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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Flooding in Kentucky

The boys are happy to be in the barn instead of out in this horrid weather!
Progress was made this afternoon, Zulu finally ate out of my hand :)
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Halter training

I have the smartest Alpacas ever!!
Zulu and Purvis both had their first experience w/ a halter and lead rope on Sunday when my Dad was here to help. I haven't been able to catch them again since by myself so tonight my friend Terry helped me and we put halters on them again and they were so good! I am so proud of them.
We even tied Zulu for a little while and he was a champ.
It was a good training session :)
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Thursday April 29th

this morning, Purvis ALMOST ate out of my hand!!  how exciting is that?!?!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Tuesday Night

this evening, the boys started humming to me, so I hummed music from the Sound of Music back to them.  They looked at me like I was crazy!

Tuesday afternoon

well, Zulu (the light fawn/whitish alpaca) is definitely the BOSS!  this morning when i fed them, he wouldn't let anyone else eat out of the bowl with him!  before, they would all eat out of the same 2 bowls, then move down the line and eat out of the next ones, and so on until the food is all gone.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Another view of Susans new boys

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Susans Alpacas

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Zulu and Levi checking each other out

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Monday Morning update

Sunday afternoon, my dad came out and we put halter on 3 of the boys for the first time.  They did NOT like that at all!!  the white boy, Zulu, seems like the leader of the pack so far, so we put the halter on him first.  I didn't get any pictures, since I was helping, but soon, I will try to get pictures of them with their halters on.
Both of the black boys got to try out the halters too.
all of them jumped and did flips the first few minutes, but gradually settled down and we were able to rub them all over, and just fool with them a little bit.

My  niece came to see them, and of course she fell in love at first sight!

This morning, Levi got to meet the boys for the first time, and all went well.  Unfortunately, I wasn't smart enough to take my phone to the barn this morning to get pictures....

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Checking out the new kids @ the barn

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Hey good lookin

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Handsome

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Hanging out

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First breakfast

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Cool dude

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Traveling home

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More waiting to be sheared

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More of the chosen few

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The chosen ones prior to shearing

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Briar Peek enjoying our road trip

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All packed and ready to roll

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Alpaca Adventures Road trip

Friday, April 23 2010  My friend Susan Peek, her husband Skip, and I traveled to Magical Farms in Ohio to choose our boys.
It was quite an overwhelming experience!  They had the boys in a pen for us to choose the ones we wanted, of course, we wanted them all!
In the end, I came home with 5, Susan with 6

We got up early on Saturday morning, and had all 11 Alpacas sheared before we started the long trip to KY.  The boys all did great, and are now happy in their new homes.

Let the fun begin!!!!!!!!!!!!