Fab day at Yorkshire Alpaca Group Show - Thirsk

James with Swift & Jess with Sparkle

It was very dark, cold & wet when we woke up at 4.30am for our trip to Thirsk! After driving through heavy rain & strong winds we managed to arrive in Thirsk just in time. Our girls & boys unloaded we just had enough time to set up the stand with all our gorgeous scarves & have a bacon butty before the judging began. Our black girls are now over a year old & were in the second class of the day the intermediate black female class. This was quite a large class for black alpacas which makes for a good competition. James was in first with Swift & Jess further down the line with little Sparkle. Mary-Jo placed Swift in 3rd & Sparkle in 4th & we were delighted.

James with Daley

Daley went to the show having already been sold 2 weeks before, & we were really hoping for a rosette for his new owners Roots at Thorpe Farm. James took him into the ring & even though he did get bored & sit down alot, he came out with a fab red 1st rosette, which I think will be on show in Roots :)

Christmas Day at JandJ Alpacas

JandJ Rufus

It was a very wet Christmas morning but the sun came out for a few minutes to take photos of our wet & muddy alpacas. Rufus is out in the paddocks with his brothers & still manages to look cute even when he's wet. 

Our  cria are all turning 6 months & still with their mothers. They have the large shed & with the weather being the way it is have been shut in some nights & sometimes in the day when it has been really bad. 

We let the alpacas out Christmas morning & could watch them while we were having Christmas dinner but shut them back in for the night before it got dark

JandJ Swift

JandJ Daley

JandJ Spirit

JandJ Gem

What's in the basket?

Had a little photo shoot in the the field with the alpacas last week, our gorgeous new scarves & cowls for this year. 

Can you guess what we carried the scarves in? 

Blade, Daley, Wallace & the basket!

JandJ Daley

I'm finally blogging about our last &  probably the cutest little alpaca of 2012. He was born while the Olympics was in full swing & obviously we had to name him after our favourite Olympian, Tom Daley. He was born on 30th July at 12.15pm, second cria for JandJ Wren & another boy, a nice & easy birth but he did come out with a bit of a bent front leg. This sometimes happens we think it is when the cria is a little cramped inside their mum but it usually sorts it's self out after a week & with Daley this is the case as he has 2 beautifully straight front legs now. He is gorgeous, fabulous crimp in his fleece & so sweet looking, very like his mum.