Our alpacas are carefully cared for & managed using camelid dynamics techniques to ensure a sense of calm when doing any animal husbandry. In their everyday life they play an integral role in keeping our flerd safe, especially at lambing/kidding time. When they are not on duty they happily graze with the other animals, love a dust bath & to pronk around the paddock. Come shearing time, Alex carefully skirts the fleece to remove as much vegetable matter & course guard hairs as possible. The skirted fleece is then sent to a mini mill to process into yarn. Being a natural product, invariably you will still find occasional bits of vegetable matter in the yarn after the processing is complete. These can be picked out as you come across them whilst knitting.
