s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

This weekend we finally got to play with the stock scales we purchased back in March, and it explained a lot. Our impressions about the “right” size of an alpaca were badly distorted by the first ones we bought, lo these many years ago. The official weight range for alpaca (from Eric Hoffmans “The Complete Alpaca Book”) is 45-84 kg. Many of ours our bigger. Much bigger.
Oak is 108.5. Boo is 107. Sure, both of them are also fat, but even so that is huge for an alpaca! Girls are also supposed to be smaller than boys, yet we have many non-fat girls that are really big (Blaze at 88kg, Victoria at 87.5kg, Tessa  at 85.5kg).  Even Galadriel, who we figured was an “average” 70kg or so, came in at 80.

So yes, we do in fact have big monsterous ‘paca. I am glad most of them are nice, as if they decided to get mean and nasty, I don’t know what we could do to stop them!