Arkadia Alpaca
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Pigeon Hill Raphael – our handsome stud male alpaca
Our prize winning stud male Raphael was a great hit with the lady alpacas when he arrived at Great Ground Farm last summer. It won’t be long now before we see his offspring arrive… With Meon Valley Ardingly as his sire, he promises to… Continue Reading “Pigeon Hill Raphael – our handsome stud male alpaca”
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The Girls in the Meadow…
Our pregnant girls have been enjoying a bit more freedom than usual in the far meadow. Even with all that space, they still come charging over at feed time…
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New arrival at Arkadia Alpacas
Friday 26th June – our first cria was born to Electra. Orpheus came into the world jet black, fit & healthy.
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If you go down to the woods today…
What we thought would be ‘a little bit of tidying up’ in the woodland became a quite extensive operation – removing an ancient pheasant pen made of twisted mesh half buried in the mud and numerous fallen trees (33 to be precise). At least… Continue Reading “If you go down to the woods today…”
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The Great Wall of…
“…200 bricks and 2000 words a day” —Winston Churchill to Stanley Baldwin, 1928 Agonising, back-breaking but very therapeutic and ultimately rewarding. For a change, I’m not talking about wrestling to capture and organise disparate words to form a novel, but piecing more than 13000… Continue Reading “The Great Wall of…”
