On Thursday 24th February at 7pm EAG will be hosting its sixth Zoom webinar in the series. Nick Harrington-Smith of Alpaca Evolution will present a brief overview of breeding decisions and tools to utilize that will help maximise the chance of advancing your overall herd quality £5 EAG members/ £10 …
Past Events
Winter Warmer #5 – Natural Fibre Dyeing
On Wednesday 26th January at 7pm EAG will be hosting its fifth Zoom webinar in the series. Create beautiful colours and learn the art of dyeing fibre using natural techniques. Annie from Burnt Fen Alpacas will be our host for the evening and will be on hand to answer questions …
Winter Warmer #4 – Pasture Management
An introduction to Seed Mixes and Pasture Management for Llamas & Alpacas We are very excited to be returning to our series of zoom webinars! The first in the series will be a talk by Sam Lane of Cotswold Grass Seeds at 7pm on Wednesday 8th December 2021. Sam will …
Winter Warmers # 3 – Skirting
The Eastern Alpaca Group invites you to the third of the presentations this winter starting on Saturday 13th February 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 Skirting: Maximise Your Harvest Presented by …
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 …
EAG AGM 2020 on 27 September 2020
2020 saw EAG go digital as Covid-19 has meant limiting our face to face interactions, with our AGM and vet talk conducted over Zoom. The agenda for the AGM was: Receive Minutes from last AGM Chairman’s Report Show Report Treasurer’s Report Election of Committee Members Consideration of previously notified business …
Making Felted Soaps (Winter Warmers #1)
Presented by Katherine Shearer The first of our Winter Warmers Zoom talks was on the 28th November. Kath Shearer, our new committee member very kindly agreed to share her practical experience on how to make felted soaps. These make great alpaca-themed Christmas presents or gifts to sell in your alpaca …
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) …
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 …
Stud Auction 28th January 2017
Eastern Alpaca Group held an auction of stud services on 28th January 2017 at our post-Christmas Social Event. Here is a list of the fantastic studs who featured in the auction. Melford Green Tornado: Proven stud. Appledene Apollo: Proven stud Houghton Day Breaker: Proven stud Willowbank Highflyer: Proven stud. EP …
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.
Social Event and Stud Auction 28 Jan ‘17
The Highwayman once again provided tasty food and the venue for our January Social Event. As our chairman Rob Wales explained, Jo Bridge has had to step down as Shows Representative but Harley Laver has enthusiastically taken up the challenge. Harley got straight to work by signing up volunteers for …