Category Archives: Alpaca

Days don’t always end at dark

Posted on 21 February 2014 by countrylifeanddeath

Gently overflowing water trough, found just on dusk 3 February. Home at 9.30pm. The next day when checking the herd at twilight, my husband found an alpaca giving birth. This is most unusual. Alpaca usually always give birth in the … Continue reading →

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It never looks right when something is wrong

Posted on 5 August 2013 by countrylifeanddeath

On Saturday afternoon I looked up the hill behind the house and saw this. When someone is dead you know immediately. Death is unlike anything else. Sometimes animals lie very still, and even as you ask yourself the question “is … Continue reading →

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Said ‘Jimmy, don’t I know your name’

Posted on 16 June 2013 by countrylifeanddeath

Just as some people in your life are special, so too some special people just happen to have four legs instead of two. Jimmy, named after my miss-hearing of the line in the Dylan song Tangled Up in Blue that … Continue reading →

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