Alexander is a real cutie, don't you think? He's a dark brown gelding, born in October of 2003. He was purchased as a "pet quality" or "companion" animal, which means he won't be entering into our breeding program. Instead, we're planning on using him as our ambassador. Alex's job is to keep the other animals company when their traveling so no-one gets lonely. We sometimes use him to help guide our weanlings through the weaning process.

This striking dude is a "mini"- llama, purchased to assist in guarding the alpacas. Yes indeed, llamas are frequently used to guard herd animals. Boris is a strapping lad, and takes his guard

Boris

Jersey

Jersey is still rather young and is learning the ropes. Right now his main focus is to play with everybody. He gets the baby alpacas on their feet and running to stretch out those tendons and straighten out those long, long legs. Tough job, but somebody has to do it!

Iris

I guess if Iris has a role to play around our farm, it's to eat weeds and leaves! We never have a build up of dead leaves along our pasture fences since Iris came on the scene.

role very seriously. He keeps those extra long ears at attention to listen for any potential dangers to the herd. If he believes there

is a real danger, he herds everybody up to the middle of the pasture and places himself strategically between the suspected foe and the

herd. He also sleeps directly in the doorway every night so no one and nothing can get past him!

Fortunately, she prefers weeds to the pasture grasses, so she blends in well with our herd. We're saddened to say she lost one of her waddles (the small dangling things

on her neck) to an abscess. But that's okay, because her goatee is making up for it!

She's a very determined lady, and she certainly keeps us in stitches!

Alexander

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