A few years ago, while on cria-watch, my daughter spotted movement in the shadow of the hawthorn hedge than ran the length of the field. She raced over to find a newly born cria, just […]
Tag: alpacas
The Reluctant Farmer | Sunday Shenanigans
Sunday’s are for relaxing…right? Well it would seem the the chief farmer never got that memo! ‘We need to move the alpacas’ he announced last Sunday, stifling a groan I asked which ones, ‘just the […]
The Reluctant Farmer | Special Care Unit
The Reluctant Farmer | Special Care Unit Part of my series for Irish Country Living ‘You’ll have to stay behind’ came the words I had been expecting. A late evening delivery of a very tiny cria […]
The Reluctant Farmer | Short Back and Sides
Part of my series for Irish Country Living Well, the day finally came for our alpacas to be relieved of their much prized, much sought-after fleece. They have been panting in the paddocks, sitting in the […]
The Reluctant Farmer | New Life on The Farm
Part of my series for Irish Country Living So after a long winter and spring of minding, dosing, preening and caring, all our hard work has started to pay off and the maternity ward has officially […]
A Week of Neglectful Parenting
Some weeks you’re winning and others you are just trying to survive. This past week was very much a survival one. It should have been a winning week, I was off Monday and Tuesday…so that […]
The Reluctant Farmer| Give Me Five
My latest piece for The Farmers Journal. It is almost a given, a sort of farming version of Murphy’s Law, that as soon as I put something in the oven, the chief farmer will appear at […]