tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336145835316960935.post158653608059681350..comments2023-07-24T16:32:45.425+01:00Comments on Barbara @ Beck Brow Alpaca Blog: A Muddle of an Explanation!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308678024988841844noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336145835316960935.post-91746494772295940352011-01-25T21:04:18.317+00:002011-01-25T21:04:18.317+00:00Hooray, a good healthy discussion about our alpaca...Hooray, a good healthy discussion about our alpacas - it had been a bit quiet with no showing, birthing or other pursuits from the busy period for discussion, so egg-laying and the weather were coming to the fore - well, even the newspapers and t.v have their quiet days. My feeling is that alpacas, like other animals and humans, have their different personalities, and those personalities respond in different ways to a certain situation, but of course it takes time to get to know a crias personality, so a degree of caution is probably wise - me? well I'm a bloke so cuddling is of course out of the question - Grrrr and grunt - I've developed 'what I like to call' (thank you Miranda), a 'scrumble' - yes it looks just like a cuddle - but isn't! :-)Apple Vale Alpacashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00660280300471008178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336145835316960935.post-72769536798360306362011-01-25T20:53:19.184+00:002011-01-25T20:53:19.184+00:00Berserk male syndrome, is to be avoided at all cos...Berserk male syndrome, is to be avoided at all cost.<br />It is unfair to the alpaca, who eventually is not only a menace but dangerous.<br />And in some cases, has to be put down, as he is a danger to all.<br />The sad thing is, this condition cannot be reversed.<br />The alpaca also quite often is not accepted by the alpaca world either.Alpacaraehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06085151167899307609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336145835316960935.post-10242976288897488692011-01-25T19:51:07.013+00:002011-01-25T19:51:07.013+00:00Okay new topic...do girls understand the off side ...Okay new topic...do girls understand the off side rule?. No only joking...no comments on football please!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12308678024988841844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336145835316960935.post-33262942357574171562011-01-25T19:32:01.618+00:002011-01-25T19:32:01.618+00:00See...what u have started...here !!....Oh dear...I...See...what u have started...here !!....Oh dear...I think that being sensible is the key to any animal/human bond......at the end of the day ..its a healthy working relationship that we are aiming for......with mutual respect....not a confused animal....no matter what species.....! ....JayneZanzibah Alpacashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13198696629026363359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336145835316960935.post-91612336208541807942011-01-25T15:47:13.429+00:002011-01-25T15:47:13.429+00:00Very sensible comments Barbara and we agree with t...Very sensible comments Barbara and we agree with them. Over the years we have had total bottle feds, partial bottle feds and the most friendly? A black cria from 2010 whose Mum fed her ridiculously well - 40kilos at 4.5 months. Pixie is like a puppy and was like that from the day she was born. Should she start to get uppity, which I don't anticipate from her female line, we will discipline her, by gently tapping her backwards on her legs.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18340095762215463582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336145835316960935.post-52358266676851206332011-01-25T15:44:33.612+00:002011-01-25T15:44:33.612+00:00These debates are useful. We inherited an adult m...These debates are useful. We inherited an adult male, whose early history is unclear; he was very aggressive and difficult to handle, in fact I was quite afraid of him and we even wondered whether he'd have to be euthanased. We had him castrated and worked slowly with him, as we would a cria. Even though he'll never be "friendly", he now accepts that we are in charge and we can handle him and he's lovely with the weanlings...and a fantastic herd guardian! We are very careful to establish boundaries, but we do begin to get our cria used to us touching them early, following the Camelidynamics approach. So far...so good, and our alpacas are gentle and easy to handle.Judihttp://lagrandmere.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5336145835316960935.post-63043845002141463972011-01-25T12:30:31.385+00:002011-01-25T12:30:31.385+00:00I think its good to have a little debate on these ...I think its good to have a little debate on these things every now and again, I am perhaps a little to wary after our experience, the cria in question was a male he was very friendly but was discouraged by us all the time, he was gelded but still went on to be very aggressive to the point that I couldn't go into the field on my own as he would be up on his hind legs in front of me. We do have good fleece rummages, bodyscoring and a little neck massages during regular husbandry sessions though, and If we want our animals to behave in a show ring they have to be used to being handled. Not sure my show team have worked out the behaving in the show ring bit yet.Llama Karmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00026288779588108584noreply@blogger.com