Holly's Alpaca Shearing

23/10/2024

A bit of a catchup on the last few weeks. The weather's kicked over and it's all happening now 🥰
Happy Paccies🌻🦙

Ft paccas from Elphinstone and Kyabram

30/09/2024

Just a quick one, I've been away and will get back to everybodys texts and messages after Wednesday 2nd October. I don't have my work phone with me atm ✌️

08/09/2024

First official day back for my 4th season (how the heck did 4 years pass already?). Our annual Tocumwal trip🥰

So nice to be back on the road seeing everybody and their alpacas 1 year older 🌻

05/09/2024

Kicking off in Tocumwal and Cobram this weekend 👏 super excited 🥰

24/08/2024

Doing my girls late winter shots today ❤️

I'll be in Woodend - lancefield area tomorrow with another timeslot for 1 or maybe 2 stops for winter care if your keen let me know 😊

21/08/2024

Believe it or not I'm running out of cute alpaca photos to share so y'all get to love on my beautiful belties 😂🐮

A quick couple of tips I thought I'd mention for early shearing...realistically, we live in Victoria where weather can be volitile so this is applies for the whole shearing season.

🌻 make sure your alpacas have access to shelter.
It's a stupid fallacy that alpacas won't use shelter. They use it when necessary and as necessary maybe just not as often as we would like.
Theyre pretty tough stoic animals but a freshly shorn alpaca/goat/sheep/llama has no protection from the elements so needs to have it in the environment. This may be a tree shelter belt, hedges, hay row, building they can get behind to get out of the wind, a building they can choose to go into to get out of the rain or insert anything they can shelter from wind, rain and/or hot sun- Any shorn animal (goat, sheep, alpaca, llama etc) needs to be watched over for a period of time.
🌞It's not the shearers fault the weather changed and your animals are cold or overheating. I say this with love. Look after them.

20/08/2024

Those Spring Vibes are getting so real.
Looking forward to seeing everybody 🌻

Ill be starting the rounds at the start next month 😍

🌞Tocumwal rolls into the 20s at the end of the week so I won't be too far behind.

🦄I'll pop up a few tips and tricks as the week goes to get y'all prepped for shearing season.

🌻Newbies- don't be worried about it being your first time. First things first just get your paccas use to feeding in the pen if they aren't already.
I don't use halters unless I absolutely must so don't be concerned if the pacs aren't halter broken.

💁‍♀️By now most people know how I roll. I'm a solo shearer- I love owners to get involved or if unable- provide somebody who's physically able to help.

⚡️I'm battery operated so can go anywhere but a somewhat flat shearing area is needed.

🚎Car access right by or nearby the pen is required. My van is like my toolbox.

⏰️I can give rough times but as you know when working with animals and the weather they don't really care for appointments. We run on approximate times so flexibility is required.

Stay tuned. Much love and soon less fluff 🦙 ❤️

Video- 2 of my own cuties post shearing last season.

11/08/2024

🥂Cheers to the busy season about to kick off🥂

What a weekend. We had wins all the way round and absolutley perfect weather! We (Sophie, Peggie & I) stopped at a few places around Kilmore area both days for a variety of jobs-

🦙Top up winter care for alpacas
🐑Crutching a bunch of pregnant ewes and got super mooshy over bam-ba lambs 😍
🐐Crutching & trimming up sheep & goaties hooves +drenching
🐑And shearing some GORGEOUS teeny baby dolls. Wow I've never met some so small!

In all of this I remembered to get a photo today, super simple yet a super effective set-up.

🌞Sooo super loved seeing everybody!

08/08/2024

They asked for a short back and sides...and short backsides too 😂🐑🌻

Out and about with alpaca visits today and sheepies too.

The beauty of wigging- (all sheep not just merino) is shearing the face mid year keeping the wool AND grass seeds, hay stalks and other debris out of the eyeballs. Wool catches pretty much everything, it's not just spring and summer when you need to watch their eyes. Keep their faces clear friends ✌️ they'll keep loving you for it.

07/08/2024

Hey guys! I'll be scooting around shearing and crutching some sheep around Kilmore area this weekend, I've got a bit of time Saturday afternoon if somebody would like a visit.
Available for..
🐑 sheep shearing (a handful, I don't shear tonnes guys)
Crutching and anything else needed
Goats care- toe trims, vax, drench, minerals etc
Alpacas- winter care

01/08/2024

Hey Guys I'll be scooting around Shepparton tomorrow for the day, I have time for 1 or 2 more stops for winter care. Happy to stop anywhere between seymour and Shepp.

🐑🦙🐐Can goats or sheep needs aswell 🌻

14/07/2024

Happy Monday!
It was the best weekend visiting long time clients and some new ones for winter care 🩷 a few months off shearing and I kinda start to miss it.

My Soph and I travelled around Bendigo, Axedale, Longlea and Heathcote area on Saturday, then Shepherds flat, Macedon and down through Riddell to make our way home. It's so good to catch up with everybody when we aren't chasing the minutes in shearing season.

Ill be working on more area runs for this week to get to more of y'all.
Have a fabulous week!

19/06/2024

Hey guys my post haven't been loading for the last like 2 months.
If you need winter care send me a text, I'll be doing visits mostly on the weekends.

If your wondering if your alpacas need it, the short answer is yes. Rickets sucks for everybody and is 100% preventable.

Also, trying to find how to turn messages on...
For the mean time text 0459858685

22/11/2023

FYI peeps, anybody up north who needs the paca dentist, contact Alison directly

I have an alpaca in Kyabram waiting to see me!! Are there any others in the Kyabram, Shepparton areas needing dentals services

03/11/2023

Okay, so I'm crutching my little bunch of Merinos this morning and this little Peach put her sweetest face on for me, isn't she the cutest?! I wasn't going to name them since I'm getting such a decent cluster of a zoo happening these days buuuuut she convinced me to change my mind.

Please help me name my number 00913. I think she's my best MER ewe❤️

Theme suggestions could be cool and maybe we can do all of them 😉

30/10/2023

A little insight into the past month. I dont show home life often but people have been asking so if your interested i added some pics. Shows, expos, shearing, calving, kidding and sheep work.
I've made a decent start to the shearing season this past month shearing a few hundred animals in mostly the north of the state- Cobram, Shep, Bendigo , Castlemaine and Echucha working my way South (im not finished some areas so dont stress if the pacas still have the floof). Haven't really taken photos but it's been so nice to see my regular annuals. Community days have been a real highlight 🩷 it's been busy but super enjoyable.
For those asking, text number is 0459858685 please no PMs I'm trying to keep important details easy to find in one place for when I need it (usually on the fly). It's been a great start to spring, super looking forward to seeing everybody else🩷💜💝

18/09/2023

🥰 My beautiful darling Van is back on the road. Im so massively appreciative of our fantastic mechanic🦙🥳 let the silly season begin🦙

13/09/2023

Hey guys, just a quick update on shearing season.

🚃 my Van is currently in the workshop with some kinda major internal surgery taking place- we thought she was on her way out, i got the update last night and I should have it back sometime next week so I'll start scooting around once that's happened.

🌞I wont be taking on NEW clients from now which are further than 30 mins from Seymour.
RELAX, I'm not quitting shearing. I'm just not increasing numbers areas I need to travel a long way to. If your on my books, nothing changes.

✉️ contact- I can still be contacted via text and phone call. I turned off messenger chat last year as I can't keep up with text, call, chats and emails between 2 businesses (I do love a chat as you all know 🤣 but time with my hands is limited)

As many of you know I run another business all year round which I've focused on quite alot with unreliable weather the past 2 shearing seasons. So shearing will be worked around this.

I'll keep more of an eye here on comments now but if I've not shorn for you before and your somewhere across the state I can direct you to some people to try.