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Alpacas cria and the problems in winter

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Alpacas Cria and the Winter What a great year over 1400 people have come to see and walk our alpacas Today is December 11th 2015 and the year is nearly over, and a fantastic year it has been.  All of our alpacas have just had there routine injections which consist of vitamins E A and D so why are these so important?  you see alpacas come from Peru and Chillie and the biggest difference between those 2 countries and the UK is the weather and the Sunshine!  Here in England during the winter months starting in November our sunshine hours plummet to about 2 hours a day if we are lucky. So you ask your self what has this got to do with the alpacas? well the simple answer is Rickets.  Because of the lack of sunshine alpacas suffer from rickets so that is why we must boost there vitamin intake during these winter months.  We do this by injection, we were using a multi vitamin but now we have a formulated one that has the 3 vitamins we need E,A,D. It is the Cria that suffer t

Alpaca Toys for sale

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Alpaca Toys for sale  Our Alpaca shop now has some new additions for the Christmas season. We have stuffed toys and bounded alpaca toys of all shapes and sizes.  Buy online in our new shop.

Brambridge Park Gardens at Christmas

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Its that time of year again Christmas! Come and see the Alpacas who will be with Father Christmas at Brambridge Park Gardens bring the children and have fun this christmas

Father Christmas meets Hensting Alpacas

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Father Christmas meets Hensting Alpacas Dates are now set for the event of the season! Father Christmas is going to give his reindeer a few days off when he visits Brambridge park gardens in Otterbourne Eastleigh Hampshire SO50 6HT this year.  On 6th 13th and 20th of December the children will be able to come and meet Father Christmas at his grotto and also meet the Alpacas from Hensting Alpacas. What a unique way to have fun at Christmas.  Father Christmas and Hensting Alpacas

Alpaca Walking season coming to an end

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Walking Alpacas Seasons End Well what a great year we have had walking our alpacas and shearing them with the general public.   We have had over 700 bookings We have taken over £25,000.00 in tickets Our Alpaca shop only open for a month has taken £900 We have had 9 Cria born  The alpacas have munched there way through £900 worth of hay We have had a 100% positive feedback from our guests We have sold 7 alpacas We have had a great year and we are now selling tickets for 2016 and have already sold 20 so far! Alpaca Walking   And don't forget we are now doing Alpaca Adoption or Adopt an Alpaca Looking forward to next season which starts in February 2016!  Who says Alpacas ain't profitable ?

Adopt an Alpaca

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Adopt an alpaca Hensting Alpacas have listened to your requests and this time it was for a way you can adopt an alpaca, just like the larger companies that offer this type of service , like Adopt A Pet So we thought what a great idea and we now have a page under construction, which you can find here. Adopt an Alpaca  You will also notice another exciting thing with our website, we are now https:// secure! this has been quite hard work to get the pages that we want to be secure, for example the alpaca walking page and booking tool. So we are going to have 2 types of adoption packages gold and silver and like I say pop over to the website it has all need to know about how to adopt an alpaca

Pet Alpacas For Sale

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Pet Alpacas For Sale So what is it that makes an Alpaca a pet.  Well quite simply its an alpaca that is not made the mark to become part of the breeding program.  For example his fleece is not dense enough or not fine enough or has no crimp, shine or handle.  Of course females would only become pets at the end of there lives when they are unable to be bred from.  A male pet or guard, yes guard, because did you know an alpaca in a group can kill a fox! they scream at it and run towards it and if it don't move they will then jump up and down on it to kill it all together. An average price for a pet alpaca for sale would be about £500 plus vat.  Vat is included because they are recognized as exotics so the price must include vat. Here is a couple of examples of pet male alpacas for sale  pet alpaca for sale with its mum