Ausra Farms - Updated

[Latestarter]

Good to see that big smile on your face! Congrats on the babies and the newcomers. Thanks for sharing the pics!

 

[Bruce]

I picked up these beauties today

Can you touch them? Mine would be easier to deal with if they didn't think touching meant death.

 

[Alexz7272]

@Bruce My boys HATE being touched. These girls are skittish but much friendlier overall. I think with time they will warm up.

 

[Bruce]

If you figure out how to make that happen, let me know! I can hand feed them their maintenance pellets and sweet feed but NO TOUCHING!

They need to get over that. Besides needing to be sheared again this spring, they must really need their nails cut. Hasn't been done since the morning before they were brought here and that was Oct 2016!

 

[Alexz7272]

@Bruce I've been told carrots are their weakness. I'm gonna grab some tonight and see the validity of it tomorrow. If it makes you feel any better, my boys are total A**h**** so not even carrots could make them friendly. Hoping the girls are better

 

[Bruce]

Apples? No go, Carrots? Didn't even look at them. My boys didn't read the book on alpaca treats. They do like all stock sweet feed.

 

[Alexz7272]

@Bruce Your alpacas are broken
I have heard apples are a close second! The breeder I got my girls from said to put it on top if a feed bucket, the put your hand in it. Pick some up over time and have them get it from your hand. Eventually they’ll come running? We’ll see

 

[luvmypets]

Our alpacas are very picky, with them if it isnt grain they arent interested.

 

[Bruce]

@Bruce Your alpacas are broken

Tell me about it!! The lady that gave them to us said they liked apples. Maybe the 6 girls she had (and had already given away) liked them and she wasn't paying attention to who was eating the pieces? Or she wasn't paying attention after the girls were gone and the male goat cleaned up??

They will eat their maintenance pellets mixed with sweet feed from my hand. In fact, they will come morning and evening to get it. And if I am feeding them in the barn, like I do when it is near or below freezing, they won't hightail it out because they WANT those pellets. Otherwise they think I'm going to do something bad to them and they skedaddle.

 

[Alexz7272]

@Bruce Maybe its just male alpacas in general? Mine are just like yours. Even with grain they snub their noses at me. Makes me want to try alpaca meat when they get cranky when I am trying to FEED them