The first alpaca cria born in 2012 at Wellground Alpaca Stud

It's been a difficult start for little Wellground Moody Blue, he was a breach birth early on Monday morning. But after a few days care, he is up and out in the sunshine. See the video for his progress.

Introducing Wellground Moody Blue

Just a quick blog this morning, no video diary today as we have a lot of work to do. I mentioned a few days ago we had our first birth of 2012, a male cria, a breach birth.

Well, he has recovered from his pneumonia and is now out in the paddock with his mommy. So here he is little Wellground Moody Blue, by EP Cambridge Samson and EP Cambridge Adelaide Blue.

Ahhhhh!!!!!!!

A visit to Experience Alpaca and the new alpaca shop.

Hi everyone, on Monday and Tuesday of this week I went north, the track car was delivered to West Yorkshire for an engine rebuild. So after dropping it off, I headed back west to Rainhill near Liverpool to Experience Alpaca.

The shop at Experience Alpaca is only a temporary one at the moment, inside the Harefield Water Gardens, garden centre. The new Experience Alpaca facility gets underway with building starting this summer.

I had my video camera with me, so I created a short introduction Video Diary showing the alpaca yarns, crafts and fashion designs, hope you enjoy it.

A breach birth and a busy time

Hi everyone, sorry the blog has remained quiet, we have been exceptionally busy at Wellground for the last few weeks.

This is just a quick update, but I will be back with lots of video diary content and blog news very soon.

An update on our early birth, the cria was born very early in the morning on Monday, the dam Adelaide Blue was in the barn for the night, as the weather wasn't good, just in case she birthed during the hours of darkness. That was a good job she was in then, wasn't it ?

The cria a solid white male was born breach, as many of you know we have a CCTV camera mounted above the night time pen. Without realising it, we had caught the birth on the security DVR, Adelaide Blue was able to pass the cria alone without help with the rear legs coming first and the head appearing last. This has caused an issue. The cria has taken some amniotic fluid on board when taking his first gasp of air. He has a bit of pneumonia on the right lung. The vet has visited and checked him over, he has had a few jabs of antibiotics with an anti-inflammatory, and this morning he is looking much better.

He is a bonnie lad, and soon I will get some pictures and video up here for you. He has been called Wellground Moody Blue. Thank you to Lady Zanzibah for her suggestion for his name. We love it.

Back soon with lots more news.

One for the Petrol Heads

A few shots of my track car as the winter update projects nears it's close. I know some of you won't be interested, sorry for the lack of alpaca content today.

Well I like it anyway.......

Preparing for our first alpaca birth of 2012 - Exciting !!

At Wellground Alpaca Stud we are preparing for the first alpaca cria of 2012 to be born here. Exciting times, spring is on it's way.

NEWS FLASH !!! NEW ELITE ALPACAS NOW AVAILABLE

We have great news from Wellground. We have been very quiet lately on sales of 'elite' alpacas. We sold out early last year, with such demand we actually sold more than we should have, that means we have been breeding up our stocks again. That is not a speedy process when you have a compact elite herd, breeding for 'Quality rather than Quantity'.

The News is.... We have been asked to act on behalf of Harefield Alpacas to offer some of their finest pregnant females for sale. Derek and Sandra Williams from Harefield are very busy at the moment creating the new Experience Alpaca retail outlet on Merseyside. (I will have more information about that in a blog later this month).

This is a fantastic opportunity for us at Wellground. Let me explain.....

A few years ago when we were acting as sales agents for EP Cambridge Alpaca Stud, we were in an enviable position to 'cherry pick' the very finest white 'elite' alpacas coming through the EP Cambridge Australian import process. The very best of these female alpacas were sourced to make up our own 'core herd' and that of our friends Derek and Sandra at Harefield Alpacas.

Now a few years down the road, Derek and Sandra are releasing one of those 'core herd' imports 'Cambridge Pirouette' (By EP Cambridge Peruvian Spartacus) and a group of offspring from their imported females. These offspring are now breeding females in their own right, with full Australian (EP Cambridge Adelaide) genetics. They are all pregnant to Australian herdsires from the same breeding programme.

So this is very exciting for us. This gives us the opportunity to offer for sale in the UK, alpacas with the World's very finest genetics once more. These pregnant female alpacas will be resident at Wellground soon. They come from a very biosecure holding on Merseyside and their husbandry regime is second to none.

For more information about the elite alpacas available this spring at Wellground, have a look at our sales page on our web site. You'll be pleased you did.

A picture that I took of some of the Harefield Alpacas herd a while ago, this is an alpaca herd of the very highest quality. Probably one of the most genetically focused in the U.K.

Sandra Williams from Harefield Alpacas.

We are really looking forward to the arrival of these alpacas at Wellground. More on that soon....

Alpacas in their PJ's and they're ready for bed....

No, our alpacas don't really wear pyjamas, but they do go to bed at night. Watch the video of bed time for the alpacas at Wellground on a freezing cold winter's evening.

I have finished stripping, 1st video diary of 2012

Hi everyone, sorry for the lack of video diaries in recent weeks. Hopefully you will enjoy the 1st video blog of 2012, a few clips of our new gang of female weanlings.

Sorry no Blog, I've been stripping......

Hi everyone, sorry there has been no video diary lately, nor many blog posts for that matter. I have to admit I have been playing.

The weather has been mild, the alpacas are all well and I have taken advantage of the peace and quiet to take some time out for me. I have been involved in a 'winter project' to make the track car less like a road car and more like a race car. As the late founder of Lotus Racing once said, "The secret is to add lightness".

I started two weeks ago with a lovely looking car like this.....

Now it looks like the vandals have been at it. Anything that isn't needed has been stripped out and thrown away, no longer do I have any luxuries, no airbags, no electric windows, no electric mirrors, no seats..... Seats comes later. I am having new race seats built for it. I have sold the original seats, so if I want to drive it now, I have a deck chair on hand ;o)) I have received a bit of stick on Twitter about this, my 'winter project' is being referred to as my Scrapheap Challenge. Sandra, you can see my knob is still very much in place.

The glass windows (Except windscreen) have been replaced by Polycarbonate windows, the electric window motors, speakers and inner door cards stripped out, new ultra thin alloy door cards replaced. It's serious you know.....

Meanwhile, Samson has no idea what I am doing climbing about in the car. He thinks it's pure madness brought on by my age.


He's probably right ;o))