Bye Bye Baby and good luck at Kensmyth Alpaca, Clay Meadow

Sometimes an Alpaca touches your heart and you want to keep it forever but sometimes letting go however painful is the best for the Alpaca and not your own feelings.

She is an old fashioned alpaca and overweight and dips her feet in the water troughs and reverses when you want to catch her just to make sure you really do want just her – a truly great character.

Daisy has been with us for ten years and after birthing a breach many years ago which left her unable to have any more cria, she has been here at Kensmyth looking after the cria year on year when they were weaned.. here are some of her “wards” of previous years..

It did not matter how many, how few, if males or females, Daisy kept them all in line and letting her go was one of the toughest decisions I have ever made in my Alpaca life; what I will do without her next year for the 2023 weanlings I simply do not know and she will be greatly missed.

“bring them in Daisy” was often heard across the farm and slow but sure she brought them into the barns from whichever field she was in and in a true Camelid line!

Each year however, as she became a little more “mature” I felt guilty taking her weanlings from her when the time was right until the next years ones came to her. She IS in this picture but head down on the grass!

This year a client fell in love with Daisy (who would not) as well as the girls she was looking after and begged me to let her go with them and after much soul searching ( I even phoned a friend to check I should ) we felt it was the right thing for Daisy who will spend the rest of her life with a group of girls, two of whom she looked after from weaning in 2021 and one from 2020 so a lovely group of four female alpaca and to a cracking home. In all our time with her Daisy never spat at anyone, such a gentle soul.

We had been asked to let her go before but this year we felt Daisy loved these girls more than previous years bossing them about and fussing them over just as if she had given birth to them.

Two whites, a fawn and a black, a lovely group of girls who all get on really well with Daisy as the Boss – go girl.

Miss her like crazy and the farm does not feel the same knowing she is not there but she is absolutely loving her new home and new routine and is “bringing them in Daisy” for her new owner – what a trouper of an Alpaca!