Arcadian & Appaloosa alpacas

16/04/2026

Sometimes it is worth the wait. La Nouba has made this enormous female cria for us. We had planned to retire her from breeding & are delighted to have this final girl. Not yet weighed but we are guessing over 12kgs…up on her feet in under 10mins, suckling under 30mins. Cannot complain about that ! Arcady La Bella 🥰
PS La Nouba is a verylarge alpaca, just to give you some size scale

UPDATE : turns out our weight guesstimate was a bit ‘hot’…Bella ‘only’ weighed in at 11.1 kgs this morning (17th) 😂

01/04/2026

And… in the words of Queen … ‘another one bites the dust’ … bloody hell !!🤦‍♀️😩

31/03/2026

The loss of a substantial tree limb always makes me feel sad …. that is years of its life there, on the ground ☹️ This huge bough dropped today, from a very old large HEALTHY tree, located in an area that SHOULD have some subsoil moisture… this summer/autumn we have lost more large limbs off our gums, than any year in our more than 30 years on the farm.
A very sad sign of just how terribly dried-out the subsoil is, right across the board. 😭

04/02/2026

Time to get serious about reducing our breeding numbers. This young girl is appearing as a non-breeder. After a year of trying various things, her on again / off again hormonal behaviour strongly suggests she is infertile. She has grown tall but does not have the ‘masculine’ look that many infertile girls do, so she might possibly come good but it is time for us to call it quits & focus on other animals. Offered for a good wether-price, papers available if you want to try to breed her. Otherwise she is just a pretty young alpaca in need of a new home with other alpaca friends. Located close to Mt Barker in the Adelaide Hills, SA.
Please pm me if interested. We also have young adult wethers available & some proven breeding girls too (currently open)

17/01/2026

Yup ! 😉

24/12/2025

20/12/2025

… Christmas sing-along 😉…
“He’s making a list,
chicken and rice”

Send a message to learn more

03/12/2025

Anyone know people like this ? 😂😂😂

28/11/2025

Very unexpectedly heading into hospital for full knee replacement surgery on 10 Dec. Will be looking to reduce animal numbers in next month or so, to ease my workload during rehab. A couple of weanling girls still available, also a few proven breeding females who are currently open for mating & a good number of young adult huacaya wethers. I will not be providing lists or info yet, as I am too busy with pre-surgery stuff, but any interested people are welcome to message & let me know. I can then get back to you in the New Year.
Just shows that you never can predict what is around the corner !
NB This photo is completely irrelevant but I just love it 😂

21/11/2025

Hmmm 🤔 I guess that we have not used the float for a while… and I guess that we will NOT be using it any time soon ! Beautiful bit of construction by some blackbirds 👏👏👏
UPDATE …. getting a bit crowded in there now with 4 growing chicks 🤦‍♀️ See the last photo just added 👍

03/11/2025

Thought I should share this nice little video of Arcady Glint’s fleece before shearing this year. At almost 66 months of age & in natural, unclipped condition. Even though I thought he was a dusty grub, his fleece still shows beautiful lustre.

17/10/2025

Anyone for capeweed ?? 🤦‍♀️😣
This might look pretty but it is the result of the extensive dry over the past couple of years, topped off by more recent drought which actually killed a lot of perennial grasses.
Too dry to spray in autumn then too cold to spray in winter & now too advanced to respond to broadleaf spray…. the worst we have seen it in our almost 30 years here. Every property around is pretty much the same. There will be very little paddock feed once it all dries off. Scary. 😬