Capital Alpaca

29/03/2024

A week ago we were at the British Alpaca Society National Show. And what a show we had!! Our little team of 5 did us proud. The highlight of the show being Capital Atlas winning Reserve Champion White Male 🤩

Here's our Full Results:
⭐️ Capital Atlas - Reserve Champion White Male ⭐️
Sire: Beck Brow Glory Daze (W)
Dam: Bozedown Starburst II (W)

💙 Capital Malfy - 2nd Light Suri Intermediate Male (1yr) 💙
Sire: Houghton Nathaniel (W)
Dam: Houghton Bellini (BG - Ee/AA)

💙 Capital Vogue - 2nd Junior Brown Female 💙
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Beck Brow Sunday Best (B - EE/aa)

💛 Capital Dauphin - 3rd Intermediate Grey Male 💛
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Houghton Beau (RG - Ee/aa/Mm)

💜 Capital Yasmine - 6th Junior Grey Female 💜
Sire: Kurrawa Legend's Crusader of B*W (W Cryptic Grey - ee/Aa/Mm)
Dam: Longthorns Ieisha (B - EE/aa)

We would also like to congratulate Lane House Alpacas fir their accomplishments with their two new Capital stud males:

⭐️ Capital Texugo - Reserve Champion Grey Male ⭐️
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Inca Janeiro (Cryptic RG - Ee/Aa/Mm)

❤️ Capital Fennec- First Adult Brown Male ❤️
Sire: Toft Klondike (LF)
Dam: Woodbine Foxy Lady (DF - Ee/aa)

17/02/2024

17/02/2024

🌟🌟🌟🌟 CAPITAL DAUPHIN 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Thank you to Capital Alpaca for your kind donation to our stud service auction🙏

Capital Dauphin is an exciting young Rose Grey male who we are really excited about. He is a part of our first crop of cria from Beck Brow Hit For Six. Dauphin's dam, Houghton Beau is our best producing grey female, who consistently gives her cria very fine, dense, and stylish fleeces. Dauphin has had a highly successful show career so far and is continuing to mature in impeccable style. With his impressive pedigree and fabulous fleece traits, Dauphin has a wealth of strong genetics to pass on to his offspring.

Dauphin's fleece is bright, very dense, very fine, and impressively uniform. Judges have remarked on how similar in micron his white and coloured fibres are. His transition line is very low and his fleece stays fine and stylish into his extremities. Though he has not yet been colour tested, his sire has been tested as EE/aa and his dam is Ee/aa (Grey). So, Dauphin's base colour is either EE/aa or Ee/aa and he has clearly inherited the grey gene from his dam.

Conformationally, Dauphin is very much like his father. While he does not have a large frame, he is well-balanced and well-proportioned. He has good capacity through his chest, and good substance of bone. He has an attractive head that is true to type and has very good fleece coverage. Dauphin was a chunky and healthy cria. We expect his offspring will be the same! Though he is not yet two years old, he is showing signs of being an early worker (like his sire).

Please note that he was sheared less than a month old. The staple length and fleece weight is annualised.

For more information or to place a bid please click the link below:

http://basnationalshow.co.uk/studs/

13/02/2024

We are proud to announce that Capital Dauphin has been selected to be a part of this week’s BAS Stud Service Auction, proceeds of which go towards putting on the British Alpaca Society National Show. Click here to see the available auctions and place a bid: http://basnationalshow.co.uk/studs/

13/02/2024

This year was a first for us in that our show season started two months early. It was an interesting experience in that it gave our youngsters the opportunity to attend a smaller, quieter show before the attending the dazzling National Alpaca Show in March. That show was the Northern Show up in Scotland. It was a busy time for us leading up to the show as the weather had been atrocious and I had been away in the USA for a bereavement, so out halter training was going a bit slower than usual. I’m am happy that we made it to the show, even if we had the muddiest juniors there! 😬🫣 I am proud that my “big boys” each earned a sash and every junior placed in the top 4 (apart from one wee boy sucking his bits way up from the cold 🤣). Overall, it was a wonderful weekend away! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Thank you to judge Barbara Hetherington and the Northern Alpaca Show organisers for putting on a great show!!

🌟 Capital Texugo - Champion Grey Male 🌟
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Inca Janeiro (Cryptic RG - Ee/Aa/Mm)

⭐️ Capital Fennec- Reserve Champion Fawn Male ⭐️
Sire: Toft Klondike (LF)
Dam: Woodbine Foxy Lady (DF - Ee/aa)

⭐️ Capital Malfy - Reserve Champion Light Suri Male ⭐️
Sire: Houghton Nathaniel (W)
Dam: Houghton Bellini (BG - Ee/AA)

13/02/2024

The last of the autumn short fleece shows that we attended was the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh Show 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 While others weren’t so lucky, we were able to make it through the storm in order to attend the show. Because of the storm, the show ended up being smaller than intended, but it was encouraging to see an high quality alpacas filling the show despite the lower number of entries. Well done everyone!! A belated thank you to judge Barbara Hetherington and the Welsh Alpaca Show organisers for putting on a great show!! 🤍❤️💚

🌟 Capital Dauphin - Champion Grey Male 🌟
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Houghton Beau (MRG - Ee/aa/Mm)

🌟 Capital Stardust- Champion Grey Female 🌟
Sire: Kurrawa Legend’s Crusader of B*W (W - AUS - ee/Aa/Mm)
Dam: Charnwood Forest Once In A Blue Moon (LSG - Ee/aa/Mm)

🌟 Capital Malfy - Champion Light Suri Male 🌟
Sire: Houghton Nathaniel (W)
Dam: Houghton Bellini (BG - Ee/AA)

⭐️ Capital Texugo - Reserve Champion Grey Male ⭐️
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Inca Janeiro (Cryptic RG - Ee/Aa/Mm)

⭐️ Wyvern Jet - Reserve Champion Black Female ⭐️
Sire: Liberty Alpacas Midnight Rider of WVV (B - USA)
Dam: Wyvern Aero (B)

💛 Capital Camber - 3rd Fawn Adult Male 💛
Sire: C-S Alpacas Jack The Lad (MF - Ee/Aa)
Dam: C-S Alpacas Imogen (DB - EE/aa)

13/02/2024

We have once again fallen behind on sharing our show results… Oops! There’s no time like the present to get caught up 😊 First is a flashback to the Yorkshire Show that was held in Mid-October. It was a lovely, relaxed weekend for us with a small show team of 5. We were proud to have all alpacas place within the top 3! A belated thank you to judge Roger Clarke and the Yorkshire Alpaca Group for putting on a great show!!

⭐️ Capital Dauphin - Reserve Champion Grey Male ⭐️
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Houghton Beau (MRG - Ee/aa/Mm)

⭐️ Capital Stardust- Reserve Champion Grey Female ⭐️
Sire: Kurrawa Legend’s Crusader of B*W (W - AUS - ee/Aa/Mm)
Dam: Charnwood Forest Once In A Blue Moon (LSG - Ee/aa/Mm)

⭐️ Wyvern Jet - Reserve Champion Black Female ⭐️
Sire: Liberty Alpacas Midnight Rider of WVV (B - USA)
Dam: Wyvern Aero (B)

❤️ Capital Malfy - 1st Intermediate Light Suri Male (1yr Fleece) ❤️
Sire: Houghton Nathaniel (W)
Dam: Houghton Bellini (BG - Ee/AA)

💛 Capital Texugo - 3rd Place Intermediate Grey Male 💛
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Inca Janeiro (Cryptic RG - Ee/Aa/Mm)

02/01/2024

Hi Everyone!

We have two big jobs happening on the farm over the next two months which we could use a hand with. Volunteer sessions would last one-hour per task and you are welcome to sign up for one job or to do both if you are interested and have two hours to spare!

1- Halter training our young alpacas. This is teaching them how to walk on a lead (a bit like a horse or a dog) so that they can compete in alpaca shows and are less stressed when being handled later in life.

2- Sorting fleeces in preparation for spinning into yarn. We need extra hands to help pick bits of vegetation out of the fleeces and to get them packed and ready to send off to the mill.

Feel free to get in touch via pm, phone, text or email for further info and to book in a slot. Currently we are only looking for one or two volunteers per day. So while we can take weekend volunteers, weekdays are preferred since there are more days to fill! Volunteers are welcome to book in on an individual basis or as a pair with a friend or family member. For safety reasons, we can only take adults and teens.

Thanks for reading and I hope to speak to you soon! 😊
- Kim

01/01/2024

Happy New Year from Capital Alpaca! 2023 was full of tribulations which kept us busy, but some really great things happened as well. We have had a great holiday break and are ready for what’s to come 🙌 We look forward to a year filled with alpaca love. Roll on 2024! 🥂🎆🥳

#2024

16/12/2023

Come along for those special last minute gifts on our final open weekend ❤️💚

06/11/2023

Well, after our crazy summer, things are starting to settle down, and I finally have time to catch up on things. I would like to introduce you to our 2023 crop of cria (apart from pets who already left for new homes). It is so nice to see an improvement in our herd year after year. We have had some very smart ladies and gents born this year! 🤩 Like a show, they are pictures from dark to light, with grey (our favourite colour) leading the way!

27/09/2023

Well I can’t believe how quickly summer has turned into autumn! We attended our first short-fleece show of the season with an abbreviated show team (due to car trouble we had to take the small car and trailer). Despite our small team, we had a very successful show!
Thank you to Tim Hey for your thorough but swift judging. We are honoured to have our grey male, Capital Dauphin, mentioned as a part of the top 3 alpacas in Tim’s final remarks leading up to announcing the Supreme and Judge’s Choice.
Our little Maeve came along as well and was so excited to compete in another Young Handler class! 😊 We had a great time after looking at horses, sheep, goats, and all sorts! It was great to be a part of the first ever alpaca event at the Stokesley Show. We can’t wait to come back again next year!

⭐️ Capital Dauphin - Champion Grey Male ⭐️
Sire: Beck Brow Hit For Six (DB - EE/aa)
Dam: Houghton Beau (MRG - Ee/aa/Mm)

⭐️ Capital Stardust- Champion Grey Female ⭐️
Sire: Kurrawa Legend’s Crusader of B*W (W - AUS - ee/Aa/Mm)
Dam: Charnwood Forest Once In A Blue Moon (LSG - Ee/aa/Mm)

💛 Wyvern Jet - 3rd Intermediate Black Female 💛
Sire: Liberty Alpacas Midnight Rider of WVV (B - USA)
Dam: Wyvern Aero (B)

03/08/2023

Hello friends and followers! You haven’t heard much from us the past two months as we’ve been in the throes of the worst birthing season we’ve ever had. This year we have seen more problems unpacking than we have seen in all previous years combined. It has been a very chaotic, time consuming, traumatic, and expensive season for us. As a result, I have fallen far behind on correspondences and updates. I am working to get caught up on messaging people over the next couple of days.

Our troubles have included three caesareans, of which only one of the dams survived. We were able to get the first cria adopted, but the second was the last birth of the season, so she is a bottle baby (and a milk thief).
We have also seen a maiden with ring womb, a uterine prolapse, and stillborn (and stuck) cria from a 5 week overdue maiden.
Apart from the stillborn cria, we have also lost one cria to internal damage from labour, one to a congenital defect in the larynx, and one PTS after a kick from a female left him with broken bones and a poor surgical prognosis.

Though this season has been quite a trial, it has not been all doom and gloom. We have 26 beautiful cria on farm. It’s nice to see the quality of the cria crop increase from last year. This year the browns have won. At least they aren’t all boys! Our split this year is nearly even with 14 boys and 12 girls. Here’s the breakdown (all Huacaya except the one Suri noted):

10 Brown (6 male - 4 female)
6 Black (4 male - 2 female)
4 Grey (2 male - 2 female)
2 Fawn (both female)
2 White (both male)
1 Roan (aka Modern Grey) (female)
1 Appaloosa Suri 🤷‍♀️ (female)

Here are a couple of pics, but we’ll introduce some on the youngsters properly in coming weeks 😊

15/06/2023

Exciting news! We are happy to host our very first event!!

Join us for an educational day aimed at breeders both large and small. The day will consist of presentations focusing on fibre improvement, density, and colour genetics. Additionally, Art of Fibre will be holding a testing clinic at the event, so if you have fleece you want tested feel free to bring it to have it tested there and then.

Get in touch to book your space. We hope to see you on the 25th!

31/05/2023

Shearing was just over a month ago and we are finally getting round to getting our fleeces ready for show and processing. We are really pleased to see improvement in our fibre year after year. Here are this year’s fibre test results (note shearing days varied last year so sample lengths range from 9-12 months). Not included here are old alpacas, sold alpacas, some pets, and our little Suri herd.

25/05/2023

Well we’ve done it again and fallen very far behind on our show posts! 🙈 So far behind in fact we have to recap the whole spring show season. Here’s a full list of our results and some favourite photos! 😊

Capital Titania - Intermediate Grey Huacaya Female
⭐️❤️ National Halter Show - 1st Place & Champion
🏆⭐️❤️ NWAG Alpaca Championship - 1st Place, Champion, and Best of Colour
🌟💙 HoEAG Spring Fiesta - 2nd Place & Reserve Champion
⭐️❤️ Scottish Alpaca Championship - 1st Place & Champion

Capital Dauphin - Junior Grey Huacaya Male
💜 National Halter Show - 6th Place
⭐️❤️ NWAG Alpaca Championship - 1st Place & Champion
⭐️❤️ HoEAG Spring Fiesta - 1st Place & Champion
💛 Scottish Alpaca Championships - 3rd Place

Capital Texugo - Junior Grey Huacaya Male
🌟💙 NWAG Alpaca Championship - 2nd Place & Reserve Champion
🌟💙 HoEAG Spring Fiesta - 2nd Place & Reserve Champion
💚 Scottish Alpaca Championships - 4th Place

Capital Camber - Intermediate Fawn Huacaya Male
💛 National Halter Show - 3rd Place
💚 NWAG Alpaca Championship - 4th Place
🌟❤️ NWAG Alpaca Championship - 1st Place & Reserve Champion
💙 Scottish Alpaca Championships - 2nd Place

Capital Malfy- Junior Light Suri Male
🧡 National Halter Show - 5th Place
🌟💙 NWAG Alpaca Championship - 2nd Place & Reserve Champion
💙 HoEAG Spring Fiesta - 2nd Place
❤️ Scottish Alpaca Championships - 1st Place

Capital Artorius - Junior Fawn Suri Male
💜 National Halter Show - 6th Place
⭐️❤️ NWAG Alpaca Championship - 1st Place & Champion
💜 HoEAG Spring Fiesta - 6th Place
💛 Scottish Alpaca Championships - 3rd Place

Capital Moxie - Intermediate Black Huacaya Female
🧡 NWAG Alpaca Championship - 5th Place
💙 HoEAG Spring Fiesta - 2nd Place
🌟💙 Scottish Alpaca Championships - 2nd Place & Reserve Champion

Beck Brow Just A Tease - Intermediate Fawn/Light Suri Female
❤️ NWAG Alpaca Championship - 1st Place
💛 HoEAG Spring Fiesta - 3rd Place
💙 Scottish Alpaca Championships - 2nd Place

Capital Fennec - Intermediate Brown Huacaya Male
💛 NWAG Alpaca Championship - 3rd Place
💚 HoEAG Spring Fiesta - 4th Place
💚 Scottish Alpaca Championships - 4th Place

Capital Qasim - Junior Fawn Huacaya Male
🧡 National Halter Show - 5th Place
💜 HoEAG Spring Fiesta - 6th Place

It was a great show season and we were so happy to be able to attend! Thank you to all the judges and show organizers! Can’t wait to do it all again in the autumn 😊

17/03/2023

Some difficult decisions had to be made this morning… An abbreviated show team (so as to fit in one trailer rather than two) is off to the BAS National Show at the Telford International Centre. They will cared for and shown by Maia, our very capable assistant herd manager. Some of you may already know Maia from BAS courses, shows or from our Instagram.
Whist I have been so looking forward to attending the show this weekend,I don’t want to be the one to give everyone Covid 😬🙈 I’m also feeling pretty shattered already and it is only my first day of testing positive. Coincidentally, Stuart had Covid before me for nearly a week and today tested negative 🙄 If only it was the other was around! Ah well… While I am gutted to not be at the show, at least I wet to watch the live feed and I look forward to attending other shows this year.
Best of luck to all competitors! Hope you all have a great time!! I look forward to catching up with you all at the next few shows 💕 - Kim

Photo of Maia and Houghton Maiden, who is sitting the show out as she has already collected several championships.

17/03/2023

Well poop… I have tested positive for Covid this morning and am feeling more and more rubbish by the minute. Not the start of the BAS National Show I was hoping for!!

16/03/2023

Our logo has had a facelift! 🤩🥰
Thank you so much to Kate at Bee More Design for helping us modernise whilst staying true to our roots 🙌

17/02/2023

We thought we’d share a bit more of Capital Camber! Here is some fleece eye candy for you all 🤩 This is his second fleece in coming. It’s such an advanced fleece! We can’t wait to see his progeny next year 🥰
If you’re considering placing a bid on him, don’t forget that the auction ends on Sunday evening. You can bid here: http://basnationalshow.co.uk/studs/

15/02/2023

Camber, our resident heart-throb, hopes everyone had a great Valentine’s Day yesterday! 💕

If you fancy a stud service from Camber this year head over to the BAS Stud Auction as it will be the only outside mating available to him this year!
Head over to: http://basnationalshow.co.uk/studs/

13/02/2023

We are delighted to be able to take part in the BAS stud auction this year! Capital Camber is an exceptional young male. His fleece is impressively fine, very dense with matchstick staples, bright, and uniform in micron, with remarkably thin primary fibres. Camber will be used in house only this year, so this is the only outside mating available for him until next year.
Follow the link to bid and good luck!

🌟⭐️🌟STUD SERVICE AUCTION⭐️🌟⭐️

✨🌟⭐️CAPITAL CAMBER⭐️🌟✨

“Capital Camber is an exceptional young male who we are really excited about. He has had a limited, but very successful show career so far, and is continuing to mature in impeccable style. With his impressive pedigree, he has a wealth of strong genetics to pass on to his offspring.

Camber's fleece is bright, very dense, exceptionally fine, and impressively uniform. His fleece aligns itself in solid matchstick sized staples. His first fleece scored an impressive 86 points under Judges Mary-Jo Smith and Barbara Hetherington at the Heart of England Autumn Fleece Show. The sample tested for histogram during this show tested in at 12.9 micron, but I have listed his first fleece micron as 14.4 because that's what it was on the sample pulled from the mid-side at shearing. As you can see from his most resect histogram from October of 2022, his second fleece is maintaining its fineness and uniformity beautifully. Even into his second fleece, his primary fibres are exceptionally fine and crimp nearly at the same amplitude as his secondary fibres. His transition line is very low, and the fleece he carries up his neck is very long, fine and stylish.

Conformationally, Camber is correctly built. He stands on a well-balanced and well-proportioned frame. He has good capacity through his chest, and excellent substance of bone. He has an attractive head that is true to type and has a massive amount of fleece coverage, giving him that “teddy bear” look. Camber was a large, chunky, and healthy cria. We expect his offspring will be the same!”

Thank you to Capital Alpaca for your kind donation🙏

For more information or to place a bid please click the link below:

http://basnationalshow.co.uk/studs/

29/01/2023

White Nonbreeding Female looking for a new 🏠

📍Macclesfield, Cheshire

Kalika is a sweet and friendly 4 year old female. She is not halter trained, but is very easy to handle. While she is very pretty, she does not meet our breeding standards, so we would love for her to find a home where she can be cherished as a pet 💕
Kalika will need to go to a home that already has pet females. Unfortunately females cannot be kept with pet males (even when castrated). Alternatively, if you don’t have any alpacas but would like to buy a trio of alpacas, I have others available.

PM for more info 😊