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BBC – Birthing, Breeding and Colostrum
As is always the way, when there is lots going on on the farm, there is never enough time to write about it! However, with the first birth of the day up and drinking, I am opting for a sit-down at the PC role for the afternoon. Cria Season After a disappointing start, having lost […]
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Prepotent Alpaca Males and Improving Breeding Outcomes
Prepotent Alpacas Prepotent greater than others in power or influence (of a breeding animal) showing great effectiveness in transmitting heredity characteristics to its offspring. When we talk about prepotency we tend to be talking about the reliable transmission of positive traits that an alpaca passes on to their progeny. Obviously, an alpaca is just as […]
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Beck Brow Alpacas looking forward to 2023
Undoubtedly, we can look back on 2022 as being a great year for us here at Beck Brow. Lots of healthy cria born, a great show season (maybe we could stretch that to an exceptional show season, having won both the Huacaya Halter and Fleece National Championships – that is not going to happen every […]
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Beck Brow Cria 2022
Introducing Beck Brow Alpaca Cria 2022 (some of them) That’s it folks! Our birthing season started on the 14th of April and came to an end on the 27th of July when Beck Brow Seventh Heaven and Limestone Red produced for us a black boy. Boys have certainly been the theme of 2022. Our final […]
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Summer 2022 at Beck Brow
Cria 2022 That’s birthing over for 2022. With our first cria born on the 19th of April and the last on the 29th July, it’s been a lovely summer on the farm. Our decision to remove any females from our breeding programme who did not birth easily, or produce enough milk, is now paying dividends […]
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Birthing Season at Beck Brow 2021
Birthing at Beck Brow Alpacas Well, that’s the birthing season finished for yet another year at Beck Brow. It always brings with it mixed emotions. The anticipation each day of cria being born is gone. The excitement and expectation with every new arrival will have to wait until next year. However, it usually takes a […]
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Birthing & Breeding at Beck Brow Alpacas
At last time for a ctach up. Following on from my last blog… Shearing As mentioned in my January blog our shearing was booked for early April. We saw the benefits of shearing before birthing in 2020 and decided to repeat the experience. We ordered in lots of straw for housing overnight in our […]
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Winter at Beck Brow Alpacas
No review of the year for 2020… I am not sure why that is…let me think…oh yes, we haven’t been up to much! Snow at Beck Brow Far from true of course, because work on the farm has continued very much as normal. Snow and ice have kept us busy filling up haylage racks, mucking […]
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A Photo Shoot – Beck Brow Cria 2020 (well most of them!)
Introducing Beck Brow cria 2020 – with a long-overdue dry day yesterday, I put the camera phone to good work in the cria paddocks. A few are missing either fleece or body shots, and quite a few are missing altogether. However, a few of our favourites are included in the photoshoot… Beck Brow Lipstick and […]
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Heading into Autumn at Beck Brow Alpacas
The Final Births of 2020 At last the birthing season is complete. After a flourish of births during May and early June, and a trickle during July, we were left with just three females due to birth in August. Whilst hanging around for the final births might have been a bit of a drag, especially […]
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