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Alpaca And Llama
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just bought a copy of a magazine for smalholders, to read on the train (apparently Health and Efficiency isn't sold anymore). There were loads of adverts from people selling alpacas. Nobody was offering llamas. Leaving aside the question of what kind of smallholding supports a herd of alapacas, llamas are much more fun. Is it simply that people think that they can make an income out of alpaca hair, whereas llamas are more a pack, beast of burden , animal?
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Vicuña s are just the cutest things. They can't be kept captive tho. They die. Llamas have longer banana shaped ears
17:41 Fri 07th Jun 2013
I would have thought so. Llamas were bred for work and for meat; their wool is said to be hard to spin. But in the west people use other animals as carriers and as sources of protein. Alpacas were bred for their wool, which can be worn in the west, and that's almost certainly why people breed them. (Vicuna wool is better, though.)
When I was a child we all went off to London Zoo. In those days, you went dressed in your best so Dad had his best (only) suit on. A llama took a dislike to him and spat his cud it flew out of the enclosure and decorated the entire front of his suit and his good white shirt and boy! did it stink!! The nice zoo keeper helped hi to clean up a bit but we had to travel home on the bus!!!
Great days......
Great days......
it's called transhumance with sheep - movement of Crossfell sheep to the Solway Firth or Alpine sheep to the estuary of the Seine, the marine grasses with their hint of salt on them - and, jeez, do those lambs taste good. Alpaca is a very similar taste, lamb that is very soft and tender, almost a hint of salt on the meat - makes cracking burgers.
Ratter, that's solved one problem. A friend said "The wolfhounds would have a great time chasing them!". You obviously think they won't. I don't think mine would. They are right wusses. The pup tried to chase the horses once, but as soon as the first mare didn't respond but started to walk towards him, he ran for the safety of me! Any male or gelding alpaca or llama would see them off for certain. Just so long as they don't think one is edible...