West Wight Alpacas

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For those that have visited us at West Wight Alpacas perhaps you might like to vote for us in the best place to meet a furry friend in the "My Isle of Wight Awards". http://www.redfunnel.co.uk/my-isle-of-wight/the-awards-2013/

Christmas is coming to West Wight Alpacas. Father Christmas is landing at our farm 21st & 22nd December 10:30 to 4pm. Visit Father Christmas in his grotto and meet his alpaca helpers. Festive food available. Great opportunity to buy gorgeous alpaca goodies. Other craft stalls. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Booking is essential to reserve your time slot. Call...

Arriving this coming Friday, UK alpaca socks. 100% UK Alpaca 100% made in the UK Contrast Socks Walking Socks Long Country Socks Bed Socks Plain Socks Limited sock available, hurry before they fly of the shelf!

ALPACA HUSBANDRY COURSE @ West Wight Alpacas Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd November £35 for 1 day or £60 for 2 days - includes lunch and refreshments On day 1 you will be introduced to alpacas & learn about their history, nutrition, pests & disease and husbandry tasks. On day 2, with British Alpaca Society Judge Vicki Agar, you will...

We are busy preparing our lovely alpacas for this years Romsey Show. If you are at the show why not come along and see the alpaca judging by Nick Harrington-Smith. Our apprentices have been busy halter training and making sure that they can show the judge the alpacas teeth, which is very important. Come and find us and see why...

We have just come back from the National Show at Leighton Buzzard with the following show success Wellow Sapphire 1st Intermediate Black Wellow Sapphire Best Black in Show Wellow Twinkle 1st Junior Black Wellow Twilight 1st Junior Fawn Wellow Thunder 3rd Junior Grey Wellow Summer 3rd Intermediate White We had a great weekend with fantastic show results.

The opening of our cafe this Easter weekend has been a fantastic success. We are open from 10am to 5pm. Great coffee, superb hot chocolate and yummy cakes.

We are pleased to announce that we opened our doors to our new cafe and shop opened on Good Friday. We are open from 10am to 5pm 7 days a week. Come and try our Peruvian coffee, thick hot chocolate and scrumptious cakes.

We are proud to announce that all 4 alpacas we took to this years Futurity won rosettes plus ribbons. Sapphire - Suri Intermediate Female Black - First Place and Champion Kiki - Suri Adult Female Brown - First Place and Reserve Champion Kola - Suri Adult Female Fawn - First Place Summer Sunshine - Suri Intermediate Female White - Fourth...

2 Apprenticeships Vacancies We are a breeder of some of the countries top suri alpacas and also an agri-tourism business where we breed suri alpacas, walk alpacas with the public and offer alpaca experiences. We are also due to open our on site shop and The Alpaca Chatter Café at Easter. We are looking for two apprentices between 16 and...

The snow looks very pretty in the paddocks but the alpacas are not impressed. Our studs are the worst and will not come out of their field shelters. The cria are looking rather bemused but were very happy once I had fed them.

Over the weekend we will be announcing 2 new apprenticeship positions for 16-19 year olds. HTP will be providing the training and West Wight Alpacas will train you in customer services. One position will be working with our lovely alpacas the other will be in our new shop/cafe. Watch this space...........

We are pleased to announce that we have been granted planning permission for our shop and cafe. We are working very hard to get this up and running for the Easter holidays. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible this coming season. Look out for our Easter special.........

We have been watching our lovely pilgrim geese. One of our ladies has decided we will start laying early. So we are collecting them all up and are going to incubate them. Here's hoping that they are fertile :-)

We have had a great day sorting through our alpaca fleece today. I cannot believe how much work goes into this. Today and tomorrow we are separating colours, weighing them and making sure that all vegetable matter is removed. Once this has been done we will be sending some off to be processed at a mini mill and the rest...

FELT JEWELLERY 10.30am – 12.30pm Make felt beads or flowers to string together to make a bracelet or necklace. £10 including all materials. To book please call Michelle or Gemma on 01983 760900.

SCARF WORKSHOP 10am – 4pm This workshop is for ALL abilities! Come and make a unique scarf using pure Alpaca & wool fibres! Learn how to use the Drum Carders to blend the natural colours together… £25 excluding materials. To book call Michelle or Gemma on 01983 760900.

We are getting very excited here as our American Suri Studs are nearly here. They are currently in Calgary finishing off their six month UK quarantine (having done 3 months in the states just to get in to Canada). They will fly from Canada to Heathrow on the 21st of February and then go in to one more months UK...

To all friends of West Wight Alpacas We need your help Our planning applications have gone in for West Wight Alpacas. These involve our workshop shop, a new barn and continue use of mobile home to live on site. Please click the link below to download a document with details of our planning applications. If you feel able to comment...

Come see us at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway Santa Special this weekend. You get to see our lovely alpacas and buy loved ones that special alpaca gift.

Just in time for Christmas we have a large selection of knitted scarfs made from alpaca fibre. 100% pure luxury Come visit our workshop in Wellow for your Christmas shopping.

We are so excited we have just received our peruvian fabric. Made in Peru. £12.50 per metre. Look at the array of different colours available.

We will be attending the Santa Special at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway on the following dates, 8th, 9th, 15th, 16th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd & 24th December 2012. Come see our adorable alpacas and buy some last minute presents for the family. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible.

We are looking forward to attending the Brickfields Christmas Fair on November 11th. We will be there with our alpaca products and depending on the weather we may bring along a couple of alpacas.

Renowned Camelid Vet Karin Mueller will be running a course at West Wight Alpacas on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th October. This will be an informative and hands on course, whether you are thinking about breeding or buying alpacas as pets. The course itinery will be as follows Friday 5th October 1:30 om Ariive 2:00pm Nutrition and teeth 5:00pm Close...

Beginners Crochet Course Learn to Crochet with Alpaca Yarn in the Round Wednesday 26th September 2012 Time: 10:30 to 15:00 Cost £35 plus alpaca yarn which can be purchased at our farm workshop. Aims of the course 1) Understand and use basic stitches for crochet 2) Hold yarn and hook correctly 3) Able to read simple pattern 4) Interpret stitch...

As we want to concentrate on breeding our coloured suri herd, so we are reluctantly offering for sale all our breeding huacaya girls. We are prepared to put some very competitive packages together for multi purchases. We would love to see them go locally so that we can stay in touch, so please ask. Most of the girls mated to...

HUSBANDRY COURSE AT WEST WIGHT ALPACAS WITH VICKI AGAR BAS JUDGE Saturday 23rd June 2012 We are pleased to announce WWA are holding their first husbandry course at their farm in Wellow. Course tutor will be Vicki Agar from Spring Farm Alpacas who is a British Alpaca Society judge. This will be an informative and hands on day, whether you...

You wait for days and all of a sudden 2 babies come on the same day. Iona was 7 days over her due date and gave birth to a handsome boy who we have called Twiglet. Desdemona was 1 month early and gave birth to a lovely fawn boy that Neil has called Trigger. Both girls had decided that the...

We had an action packed day at West Wight Alpacas with shearing 31 alpacas. We had a great team of volunteers for the day and 4 shearers turned up at 1:30pm. By 6pm all alpacas were sheared and we had a new addition to our herd with the arrival of Tinkerbell. Itihsa was 20 days over her due date, she...

We are delighted to announce that Desdemona gave birth to a beautiful fawn girl on 4th May 2012. She came in at a job weight and was up and feeding within 30 minutes. Well done Desdemona, she is a great mum and she never lets Tallulah out of her sight.

It has to be said that the South of England Show was a wet one. Trying to keep our alpacas dry before they got to the show ring was a challenge. We were really pleased with our girls and we came away with the following: Wellow Spring: 1st Place in the Junior brown female Wellow Sapphire: 1st Place in the...

We have entered 4 alpacas into this years South of England show which happens over the May Bank Holiday. So once this rain has stopped we will be halter training again.

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We had a great show. This was our first ever show and we were quite hopefully, but never in our dreams did we think we would come away with the following results: Kaiser: First place in his class and went on to win Champion in the Brown Suri Group Kimi: First place and went on to win Reserve Champion in...

Looking forward to the British Alpaca Futurity 2012. We have been very busy with halter training with my students today. Sweet Sensation decided today that she would walk on the halter - hooray.

Due to my un-excepted growing bump and Neil losing his appendix we are now behind on our building programme and landscaping plans with everything we have to do before Easter. If anyone is interested in joining us on a working party either this weekend or the following weekend we would be very grateful for any help. We are looking at...

*Felting Workshops* We are pleased to announce that we will be running felting courses at West Wight Alpacas. Gillian Chapman is offering a range of different one day felt making workshops, suitable for a wide range of abilities and experience *Wednesday 11th April* The ‘Painting with Fibres’ workshop is for ALL abilities! Basic felt making techniques will be explained with...

Walls are up, the roof is on. We are going to be real busy.

We are so excited, work has started on our workshop and new entrance to our Alpaca Farm. It will be a busy few months on the farm as we will also be starting halter training on our young girls, getting them ready for the Alpaca Futurity Show at the NEC.

We are pleased to announce dates for Felting Workshops at West Wight Alpacas 18th July- Painting with fibres. Basic felt making techniques will be explained with everyone making one or more pieces of flat felt, experimenting with blending colours & textures using the wonderful range of alpaca fibres available. You can create a felt picture or design suitable to use...

We are pleased to announce that we have been successful in getting our LEADER grant. All paperwork signed, sealed and delivered. Yippee

We are currently putting together a number of dates for husbandry, fibre and conformation and poo and parasites courses at our farm in Wellow. Many guest speakers, not to be missed. Watch this space.

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We thought we would update you on Sapphire our baby. She is doing really well and still loves the bottle. As soon as she sees us she charges over to us and makes clucking noises as she would have done to her mum. One of our pregnant mums has buddied up with her, which is really great.

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We are flying out to Utah tomorrow to look at some studs. We have a full itinerary for the 3 days that we are there. I will try and update the blog whilst we are away.

We have completed our poo and parasite course down in Lyme Regis. What a day that was - it was really interesting and we carried out our own alpaca poo samples. It is amazing at what one can learn. We have come away with our own microscope and lab equipment, so it future we can do all testing on the...

It's been an different day on the farm today. The children have been off school due the school being on strike, so we have kept them busy collecting poo samples for our course tomorrow in Lyme Regis. The kids have not been impressed, but hey someone had to do it.

Sapphire is continuing to do well. She is enjoying the bottle and is going through goats milk like you wouldn't believe. She has buddied up with Dreamer, which is really great.

Come and meet the alpacas at the Robin Hill Spring Show this weekend. The show is on from Saturday 23rd – Monday 25th April. We will be doing walks through the woods with the alpacas. You will also have the chance to adopt an alpaca as a special gift.