June 18th, babies have arrived!!

Happy June and finally the start of summer vacation. We have been blessed to have the arrival of 5 new crias this spring! We had 2 boys and 3 girls so I can't complain. All births went great and babies are thriving and growing like weeds.

3 of the crias are from our white herdsire, Rohan, so we were especially interested in seeing the color and fleece quality that he would throw. The little boy is a light fawn(mom is light fawn) and the girls were brown(both out of brown moms). I just found out today, Rohan had another cria from a local farm. A boy who is light brown(white mom). The next round of Rohan babies will be this fall. Stay tuned.

I have now turned my focus on skirting all the fleece we sheared off our alpacas last April. I donated about 40 pounds to the New England Fiber Pool and am currently going through the rest of my fleece and sorting and skirting for processing:

FIBER TIP: When skirting(cleaning) your fiber for processing, spend the time upfront and get as much vegetable matter out of your fiber as you can. Don't be afraid to pull your blanket apart and get at those tiny pieces of straw or hay. The cleaner you send in your fiber, the cleaner your yarn or rovings will be.

I speak of this fiber tip from experience and want you to avoid this by learning from my mistakes.

Thats all for now, stay tuned as I will continue to give fiber tips in my blog!