Cotswold Vale Alpaca Experience

Looking for something different to do during the Summer Holidays? Our Alpaca Experience is a unique experience for young & old 😊🦙🦙🦙

Two new arrivals on farm yesterday. Tina had a gorgeous little boy & Ginia has a gorgeous little girl. Both very healthy, up running around & feeding within first hour. Natures a wonderful thing ❤️❤️

Today was a big day for me, after a very long journey we dropped Bonnie & Cleo off at their new retirement home. Bonnie & Cleo were our 2nd & 3rd Cria born when started breeding in 2008. They have both produced some beautiful Cria for us and are due for a well deserved retirement in their beautiful new home. I know Fiona will love them and take very good care of them for me ❤️❤️. I couldn’t ask for more for these beautiful girls ❤️❤️

Wow we are so honoured and excited to receive the email to tell us we have been nominated by one of our lovely customers for “BEST FAMILY ATTRACTION” in the Muddy Stilettos Awards 2024 “Gloucestershire & Worcestershire” Please click on the link below to make your nomination https://glosworcs.muddystilettos.co.uk/awards/nominate/ Thank you in advance for your support, it’s really appreciated and please, please share. Let’s see how far we can get in the competition 😊🦙🌟🏆👏❤️ #MuddyAwards2024 #inlovewithlocal #smallbusiness @muddyglosworcs

Lots of noisey bird visitors the weanlings paddock, but they are taking no notice of them 😊🤣

We would like to wish all our visitors and followers a very Happy Christmas & New Year. And thank you for all your support as a small business it is very much appreciated. 😊❤️🦙🫏🦙🫏

It’s not easy getting used to the spider legs 😬🤣💙

Ginnie’s gorgeous baby boy 😍💙❤️

Ginnie’s new baby boy 😍💙❤️

So this morning instead my usual kiss Ginnie spat at me 😬 but she had good reason to, she was in labour 😯 This is a very, very special thing to be happening, Ginnie aka little Ginnie had a real rough start to life 🥲 We believe she was one of twins, her Mum had a miscarriage in April 20 and sadly we thought that was that! but early July little Ginnie arrived which was quite a shock, she was a tiny little thing just 5kg (normal newborn Cria are usually around 8 - 10kg) Although she was tiny, she was a strong and determined little thing, up, walking and looking to feed very quickly. Sadly her Mum had very little milk, which became apparent in the first few days, I monitored her closely, wanting her to stay with her Mum, I started topping her up with a couple of bottles, (the aim was to keep her with her Mum and hope her milk came in properly, but sadly it didn’t) bottle feeding was stressful for her, her Mum and me! And after 4 weeks of chasing her around the paddock to catch her to feed her, and her not really gaining any weight, the decision was made to separate her from her Mum and put her on the bottle full time. Not ideal for anyone but best way forward for little Ginnie. It was hard work, feeding her every couple of hours, day & night, but thankfully after a couple of weeks she finally accepted me as her main food source, and she finally started to gain weight. She was always a lot smaller than all the other Cria, but she was a fighter and I eventually weaned her off the bottle when she was nearly 6 months old. She was a proper sassy little madame but always came up for a kiss from me 🥰. But we did have to be very strict on touching or cuddling as she did get a little too familiar. She did grow into herself and when she was 2 years old we mated her, to our joy she appeared to have got pregnant and so we waited 😊 But her story didn’t end there, last October she got what we believe to be grass staggers, it was heartbreaking to see

It may have been raining this morning but the boys were still keen on meeting all the little ones enjoying their outdoor play session Acorn Adventures outdoor play 😊💙

Yesterday Cosmo & Cooper where special guests at a lovely wedding @ Stone Barn, Upper Windrush, Cheltenham. Both perfectly behaved and were so proud of Cooper at his very first wedding 💙💙

Rest of the Mums & Cria meeting the new kid on the bloke 😊💙❤️

Latest arrival at Cherry Tree Farm, Cria no 9 a gorgeous little boy for Tania 😊💙❤️

Never been so pleased to see a Mum feeding her Cria 😌. Nicola decided after Cria shearing on Wednesday, although she still loved her baby she wasn’t keen on feeding her !! So we’ve had a couple of worrying days, a bit of topping up with the bottle and a day & night penned in the barn with all the other Mums & Babies to keep her company (weather was dreadful Friday so they were all shut in under cover) Such a relief to stop her on the camer a last feeding her and again this morning out in the field and catching it on camera. Nicola did show her gentle loving side in the photos of her Cria sitting ❤️😍

You just can’t help smiling at these two, waiting for their breakfast this morning (very vocal 🤣🤣) and the chance to go into the paddock with some lush long grass (only fit a little while) we don’t want them getting any fatter than they are 🤣🤣🫏🫏

The lovely sounds of the birds singing and the happy munching of the girls and the babies running around in the background. Even if the ground is still rather wet !!

Another fun hen party ❤️