The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Other => Topic started by: suzanne on September 27, 2009, 12:59:28 pm
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Hi,
Anyone else out there have llamas?
Suzanne
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No, but i know a lady that does...
I'm sure she'll be along soon!
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Is that me you are talking about, Little Blue :D
I have Robbie, a two year old male. Looking for a reasonablly priced female for him.
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But of course!!
The kids at work think its great I know someone with a llama, theres some weird website with a 'llama song' and pictures that they were mad for a while back!!
:D :D :llama: :D :D
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Robbie could have his own fan club :D I have lost count of how many hikers have taken his pic ....he was in the local paper with the conservative councillor who was on a walk of the area. He had the slogan about a constituant eating out of his hand as he fed Robbie with grass.
Its quite amusing listening to people going by - some have no idea what he is. A very large goat one party decided he was, and he has also been a camel .......then a large deer!!!
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First time i saw llamas was on the cliff tops in Dorset about 25 years ago. I was walking with some friends and none of us said anything for a while as we all thought we were seeing things. When we finally cracked and admitted to seeing some mighty funny sheep we had to turn back and have a good look at them. ;D ;D ;D
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Some years ago, we took my Mum out for a drive. We passed a farm with two brown llamas in the field. Mum shrieked that she had just seen two brown camels, and we had to turn back so she could have a proper look at the "camels!"
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There are llamas on a particularly bad bend in our village. It amazes me that there has never been an accident they have almost become a tourist attraction.
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Even just thinking about llamas makes me smile... reading those post made me laugh out loud. I dont know why llamas should be be so funny!!
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When I had my zoo I used to raise llamas and alpacas. I'll see if I have any photos of them.
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Oh Cameron, what a brillaint birthday present, to have a llama!! Now, now of your friends will have such an exotic present on their birthday, will they?
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What sort of things for stimulation should i provide for it, will it be happy with the goats? :llama:
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Robbie, my llama is in with the goats, a little pony, and a pet sheep. When he first arrived, he chased them all round the field, and they ran very fast as they did not know what he was. And because he was excited, he hummed, which made the other animals run faster.
I don't give Robbie any thing to amuse him - he seems to amuse himself. Llamas are very inquisitive, and if he sees anything happen on the lane, he is by the wall very fast. We call him Mr Nosey!!!
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I'm still laughing... just fancy, a running humming llama!!
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I have Llamas too :)
I have Monty (Entire male) and Inca (Female) and their beautiful daughter Tia who is around two months old.
I also have Humphrey (Entire male) and Karma (Female) who will too soon be expecting a little cria of their own! They are joys to keep, and so interesting to watch.
The photo is Inca - Mum and the little cria Tia.
Monty the dad is halter trained and enjoys the occasional walk, although none of the Llamas enjoy the annual injections - plenty of spit goes around.
Thanks, Elliott
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Inca and her cria are gorgeous!!
Robbie our llama is entire - he is just two. He is very sociable with people and will go to the field wall to see them. Yet he does not seem to like me, and if he has to wait for his food he has been known to spit. Visitors do not believe that, he looks like butter would not melt when he has his adoring public bringing him bananas.
He is known locally as the banana llama!
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;D ;D ;D :banana::llama: ;D ;D ;D
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Hi,
My husband is training the llamas for trekking, he has a beard and is now known locally as Osama Bin Llama! ;D
Suzanne
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Just frightened my dog by laughing out loud at that one!! Sorry Sheba, llama related humour...
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They really are nice, mine (he's coming on friday) is the same colour are the babies brown patch with a little white patch somewhere, Rudy :llama:
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;Dvery good Suzanne ;D
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The banana llama
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/dollylane/robbieandkittens24thJULY002.jpg)
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What a handsome chap! Love the brown swirl on his head. Are you still looking for a girlfriend for him?
Seen some llamas today, enjoying the brief spell of sunshine
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My llama has banana ears, in that they bend forward and are roughly banana sized and shaped. I was told that this makes a llama more valuable, I can believe it because others that I have seen with coarse shaped ears look less intelligent. ;)
Lloyd is 6 foot 5, spits, kicks and bites, and faints when he is sheared.
He misses nothing, if a door slams in the house he hears it!
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Mine sounds like an angel then - as he only spits!! His ears are definitely banana shaped!! Robbie never misses anything either, I call him Mr Nosey .....if he hears a car on the lane, or even someone walking past talking, he goes over to have a look at whats happening.
Do you have a pic of Lloyd, would love to see him?
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Here is the Lloydster:
http://s393.photobucket.com/albums/pp16/Polleddorset/?action=view¤t=cornergasandfullmoonllama007.jpg
hard at work guarding sheep. He probably thinks he is a sheep, albeit a very TOP SHEEP, in that he hasn't seen another llama since he was weaned.
You need just one for sheep. Any more and they bond with each other and do not protect the sheep as well. I have a Great Pyrr dog as well running with the flock 24/7 and they form a good team.
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Thanks for posting the pic. What a handsome boy he is, and what a lovely colour.
When you say you have your dog running with the sheep .....do you mean it lives in the field?
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The dog is the price of doing business Roxy. We get packs of coyotes and the odd wolf around the sheep. Livestock guardian dogs of specific breeds allow us to keep sheep at all. My Great Pyrenees weighs about 120 lbs, the average coyote is 35 lbs soaking wet so the coyotes respect him. You train a pup by taking him at 5 weeks old and rearing him with lambs. You do not pat him or make a fuss of him, just feed him. That way he bonds with the sheep not people, he recognises individual faces. You have to stop him from biting ears and playing with the lambs in a harmful way, with Grizzle, my dog, I eventually had him living with 8 rams, they soon taught him to respect sheep when he was feeling like a wrastling match!
It takes a long time to train them and 4 out of 10 just don't work out. They either kill sheep, run away to visit other dogs, or worst of all won't stay with the flock 24/7.
My friend has 800 ewes and 5 dogs living with the sheep in a more remote area, I get all of my sheep in every night so have managed so far with just one dog, I will start to train another one next year.
http://s393.photobucket.com/albums/pp16/Polleddorset/?action=view¤t=livestockandwinterwheatbreakfastmee.jpg
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Great pic of your security team!! And very interesting to read about your dog. I do appreciate that you need to keep your sheep safe. We worry about foxes and badgers, which seem nothing compared to coyotes and wolves!! Although we do have a big fox problem, now the hunting ban is with us. Robbie is a guard llama for the large free range flock of hens I have, and he does a good job. I have had him a year, and lost two hens, but they strayed off my land, and the fox got them. So, on the whole he does a good job.
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anyone know where I could get my hands on two. living in the North of Ireland.