A blog by Emma Taylor from East Anglia Alpaca Mill and Alpacas of East Anglia I am no doubt preaching to the converted and now is hardly early, but please ensure you book or ideally re-book your shearer early. Many a time I see posts on both the BAS Chat …
Alpaca Welfare
Winter Warmers # 2 – Parasitology
The Eastern Alpaca Group invites you to the second of three presentations this winter starting on Saturday 9th January 2021 @ 7pm. We hope you will tune in and join us with these short presentations which are open to non-members as well as EAG members Parasitology: Presented by Ami Sawran Join …
Vet Talk 27 September 2020
Westpoint Farm Vet, Ami Sawran, gave a talk entitled “Top reasons for vet calls over the winter months” via Zoom. Ami started by talking about what a sick alpaca looked like, and made the point that as alpacas don’t show illness until they are very sick, the owner’s instinct that …
Winter Warmers Programme of Events
Over the winter of 2020- 2021 EAG provided its members with a series of “Winter Warmers” Zoom presentations on the following dates: 28th November 2020 @ 5pm Making Felted Soaps with Kath Shearer (Freerangefibre.co.uk) 9th Jan 2021 @ 7pm Parasitology with vet Dr Ami Sawran (Westpoint Chelmsford) …
Vets for Plasma
If you are expecting to have crias born in 2021, having plasma in your freezer could literally be life-saving for a cria that is premature or has problems feeding from mum. Newborn crias sometimes don’t get enough of the all important colostrum from their mothers’ milk, leaving them vulnerable to …
Birthing Workshop held on 7 March 2020
Ami Sawran, who is Westpoint Farm Vet’s Chelmsford Camelid expert, gave a really good talk and practical workshop on Alpaca Birthing at the Essex Young Farmer’s centre, near Chelmsford. 24 delegates learned about the theory of ‘unpacking’ a cria and then went on to have some highly useful practical training. …
Plasma Drive 2020
If you are expecting to have crias born in 2020, having plasma in your freezer could literally be life-saving for a cria that is premature or has problems feeding from mum. Newborn crias sometimes don’t get enough of the all important colostrum from their mothers’ milk, leaving them vulnerable to …
EAG’S PLASMA DRIVE SAVES TWO LIVES
EAG’s first plasma drive took place on 17 May. Organised and hosted by Harley Laver with Laura from Westpoint vets taking the blood, four farms took part. A plasma drive
Birthing and Husbandry Workshop 22 April 2017
Karin Muller once again delivered life saving advice and practice in birthing at our workshop on the 22 April. Attendees left much more knowledgeable about when to call the vet and more confident of their ability to help if a birth isn’t straight forward.
Bovine TB talk on Tuesday 4th April 7pm
Due to the topical concerns over Bovine TB, the Eastern Alpaca Group arranged a meeting to discuss this topic for which the Chairman of the British Alpaca Society, Ron Mackintosh, kindly agreed to come along to the meeting to describe his personal experiences with Btb. The meeting was held at …
Feeding for Fibre Event -3rd Dec 2016
Graham and Jenny MacHarg gave an excellent talk on the successful Fowberry approach to feeding alpacas so as to maximize the health of the alpacas and the quality and quantity of their fibre. It soon became clear that this is much more than just providing plenty of nutrition in the …
Alpaca Talk on 1st October 2016
Rob and Anne Wales provided the venue for our October Alpaca Talk in Suffolk. With numbers limited to 25, it was a sell out event. The day began with a panel session on alpaca husbandry which was opened by Pauline and David talking about their experiences of birthing. A key …
Birthing Workshop 2nd April 2016
A Birthing Workshop was held on 2nd April 2016 at 10pm at Butlers Farm, Willingale, Ongar, Essex, CM5 0QL. This was a full days workshop with camelid expert Karin Mueller covering all aspects of pregnancy, birthing and caring for the newborn.
Winter is on its Way
From Issue 2 of our newslettter September 2015 Now that winter is on its way and the daylight hours are getting shorter it will soon be time to administer vitamin D to your alpacas. In their native country there are long hours of daylight all year round and bright skies, …
Feeding Your Alpacas
From Issue 2 of the Newsletter September 2015 In their native country alpacas have evolved to survive on poor forage, grazing on relatively sparse grassland and coarse vegetation.