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 …
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 …
Fleece Show – A Resounding Success
On Friday 29th July, Judges Jay Holland and Liz Barlow, supported by apprentice judge Viv Darcy, judged 122 alpaca fleeces at the first ever EAG fleece show. The judges commented that it was so well organized that no one would have known it was our first show.
AGM & Social Event – 1st July 2016
Twenty-five people attended EAG’s first AGM which was held at the Highwayman, near Ipswich, on Friday 1st July and was followed by a meal with a raffle. Rob Wales (chairman) reviewed our first year and David Cooper (Treasurer) presented the accounts;
EAG’s First Year
From Issue 4 of our newsletter June 2016 Believe it or not EAG has been going for one year. In that year we have tried to cover different venues and different events. Starting last year in June we had an introductory social event at Woodbine Farm, then in September a …
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.
Social Event Friday 29 Jan 2016
A great evening was had by the members of the Eastern Alpaca Group on Friday evening at the Highwayman Inn. Lots of alpaca chat, good food, good company and finishing the evening off with a quiz won by David and Sally Berry.
Use of Pesticides on Your Land
From Issue 2 of our newsletter September 2015 From the 1st November 2015 the law will require users of herbicides, insecticides, fungicides or plant growth regulators to obtain a certificate of competence in order to use these products on their land.
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.
EAG’s first event – grass management and fleece skirting
Our first event on Saturday 19th September 2015 at Woodbine Farm Alpacas was a great success with 36 people attending. Chris Keeble discussed grass management in the morning and Jo Bridge with Emma Taylor took us through the complexities of fleece skirting for showing and for processing.