Most Common Mistakes Made By New Alpaca Owners
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My name is Meghan Arriola and I live in Texas with my husband Jaime, where I dedicate my time to taking care of exotic and domesticated animals on my farm. We run a rescue and sanctuary for animals like alpacas, birds and reptiles. I do animal education presentations for groups and schools. Our alpacas also do events where we are able to teach people about these unique animals. I have used service dogs for medical needs for over 10 years and I am an advocate for assistance animals and mental health awareness.
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The more I learn about alpacas & llamas the more I love them! I've always loved animals & you are living my dream! I want to have a sanctuary but don't think I'll ever be able to afford it!
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Llamas are dicks. Unless you need a livestock guardian animal. Don’t get a llama. They’re dicks.
thank you for advocating for animals and educating the uneducated.
What a wonderful wealth of knowledge. 🙂
It's also refreshing to hear "alpaca" pronounced authentically. In the Northeast, everyone just says "Al Packa."
Thank you for posting this great information! So, at the end you mentioned guardian llamas. Would've loved if you would've went into the do's and don'ts of keeping alpacas and llamas together (assuming they can be based off your last ending statement?) Maybe another video on that? :)
Thank you for this video...I'm not getting alpacas but I just started a job at an alpaca farm and this info answers some of my questions about stuff I've noticed there. ❤
always hold onto a little fear when handling alpacas. It will keep you safe
Love your content, I see way too many videos of people keeping lone alpacas and it's so heartbreaking
Thanks for posting this. We're probably going to be given our neighbor's three male alpacas when he moves later this year, and obviously they have different needs than the horses I used to have. Thanks to you and another TH-cam poster we will pass on our neighbor's lone female, although it was fun to think about baby alpacas romping around our pasture.
Awesome information I share your pain of people arguing on the most basic of care. 1 thing you didn’t mention which would make sense as you probably don’t have this issue but m worm prevention. a lot of people don’t know that they’ll have to do monthly shots if they have white tail deer where they live. And overall herd health (weighing, checking FAMACHA, trimming toe nails, checking body score, m worm prevention if needed, and cd&t once a year). Also wormer resistance😁😁 there is so much to share about alpacas
How many times a year do you trim their toenails?
Very informative, I always learn something new from you. Thank you for posting such quality information. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family and all your animal friends.
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Thank you! 😊 great video! 👍 I'm just here gathering information and dreaming of someday moving to Michigan and maybe having a few (3) alpacas (all males or all females) and a dog! Your advice is priceless!
I hope you made it to Michigan!
Great content. Thank you.
This is very informative, thank you for taking about proper care. I don't have animals unless I can take care of them and one day I would like to have animals for wool. Knowing how to take care of animals is essential to good wool. How many times a year do they need dewormer or other shots?
She did mention that their desert location prevents a lot of parasites like that.
Thank you for this video with all the wonderful advice and info.
I hear that llamas make really good guard-animals, primarily due to (1) their being such large sturdy critters up to six feet in height, (2) their always being so consistently watchful with those huge dark-brown eyelashy peepers of theirs, and (3) their having such long strong powerful LEGS, and so they can deliver one whopper of a KICK --- a good blow with one of those huge two-clawed hoofs, and a wolf or coyote is HISTORY! Plus they can run like nobody's business --- topping out at 40 m.p.h. --- and so having two or three of THOSE huge speedy fellows bearing down on you would make you think twice about bothering the other livestock under their charge --- you'd likely turn-tail and book it for the hills like barns-a-burning! :P :D
Thank you! I wish I would have known about you a few years ago!!!!!
Well done. Very informative! I’m about to get alpacas and will follow your advice.
I inherited alpacas last fall after my family purchased a property with 3 of them - a mother/son pair (he's gelded) and then another unrelated female. I am obviously really concerned about the male/female issue and have considered rehoming the male and bringing in some more females, but also torn on what to do given that they have already been living together for many years and are bonded. In your opinion, would it be worse to split them up, or keep them together?
That is a pickle. What did you do?
@@barryjackson1401 I consulted with our vet and he advised me not to split them up given that they're so bonded and haven't shown any major behavioral or health problems. :)
Thank you so much
With appropriate land, fencing, shelter, feed, guard animal, water etc. in place, is it ok to leave your heard unattended for 1-2 weeks if you need to make a trip, or do you need to have a local resource available to monitor them daily? Thank you!
You would need an experienced livestock sitter if you wanted to leave your alpacas for more than 1-2 days. Alpacas need to be supplemented twice a day, fresh water 1-2x per day, stall cleanings at minimum every other day but preferably daily, fresh flakes of hay daily, and to be monitored for signs of illness. It is always better to be safe than sorry.
I'm glad you addressed the alpacas as guardian animals question. I've seen a number of non guardian animals being touted as being very good guardian animals. Clearly there is misinformation out there. Miniature horses and alpacas are not guardian animals. Sheep and goats are not... so many are not and it puts them in danger to expect that of them.
Hi! I’m learning at the moment. What’s a good quality grass hay?
You said Copper in thier diet ,
I be looking that up , my question is ..
Im in Australia is oaten hay for feed ok ? you say grass hay and grain is it ok to give them a hand full randomly of wheat or oats , i read a cup randomly is ok is this correct ?
What a cute top.😍
I love alpacas & almost all animals. Thanks for your video. Your flyfixed link does not work anymore. Do you have a better link? Thanks!
Love your Alpaca top
Love your shirt!!! ❤
I was wondering if I could use any fleece for chinchilla cages
Yes we do
REALLY I plan to BREED and educate...we can't all be that BRAD...BUT YES auctions are one place to buy and it sucks but it's pretty much all I have access too!
"Alpaca" camera when I go to the llama farm! :D
Very informative and educational video, but the music is distracting and kind of loud. Just wanted to give you my perspective, maybe next time calmer or quiter background music would be better. Thanks 🙏 🦙❤
Thank you thank you
Do you keep the wool
In Arizona how often should an alpaca be sheared, at what time of year?
She answered in another video, check them out they're great! You shear them once a year & do it before it gets hot, I think she said they usually do it in April.
Oh my I thought you quit TH-cam thank you so much very informative
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I just discovered this video and I love it. I have a question, if I had 3 females and wanted to breed alpacas, should I buy 3 males to be able to have a baby? and obviously do it in a controlled way, as seen in the video
Greetings from Chile
You could pay a stud fee to use a male at another farm. When you buy your females most farms will usually give you the option of breeding before you take them home. You don't have to have your own male.
You are amazing!
Is 2 enough? We have been researching about getting 2 to put with our goats?
One of the mistakes I mentioned was putting them with goats and only getting two. Please watch! Ty
Can you do a full video on Aberrent Behavior Syndrome in alpacas (Male Berserk Syndrome)? TIA
Alpacas rock and go alpacas! 🤘
Can you please do all of your pets 2022
happy to report that I knew all of these already!
I am looking up the current market rate for alpaca fiber and Llama fiber and I am not seeing how you can have a successful alpaca/llama farm. Yet, it happens. I am seeing $6/once for high grade alpaca fiber, but an alpaca only produces 3lbs/yr? That's roughly $300/year per Alpaca. You can't even feed an alpaca for $300/yr. Not to mention medical expenses for vaccines/wormer and grooming expenses. How do you make it work? I have been planning for this for years. Now I am getting close to buying a farm in the next year, or two. So, I have started researching numbers. I don't see how it is even possible.
I've talked to a lot of farmers around the United States about this and the general consensus seems to be that you cannot make a profit on alpacas as just fiber animals. Your business has to include a lot more income revenues to make it work. So yes you are correct, it's not a profitable business right now.
@ dang. Dang. I was not aware of that. I thought fleece was an expensive textile. I have to rethink me entire plan now. Do you have time to share what some of those other income revenues the other farms are doing? Just few ideas to point me in the right direction. We talking hay, vegetables, and other livestock, or are we talking completely different, none farm related income streams?
I’ve seen lots of alpaca beards with a donkey as their guardian. What do you think about Donkeys?
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Can you please make 2022 pet video
I love my respect 🤗
Great video! where did you buy your clothes shown at 4:29? I really want that... plz leave me the store link...♥
Hi, the link is in the description
are you posting soon? :(
I was wanting to get alpacas only want females do they eat grain?
I've heard that some people will use a donkey as a guard animal for alpaca herds. Is that bad?
You cannot pasture a guard donkey with alpacas, risk of death is very high. Donkeys are used in a perimeter pasture.
I have three mini donkeys in the same pasture. They keep their distance but stay close enough as a herd along with the goats, geese, chickens, and ducks.
I do not have a single alpaca. I have a pair and hopefully one is pregnant.
@@tanyakauffman311 are you not concerned for the baby after watching the video
@@WyrdHag she said not to keep male/female pairs together. I think unless you want to breed them. You CAN have a female with a gelding(neutered male) together. Groups of 3 our more are best.
What are the best animal's to have living with three female alpaca's
Does anyone see the link for the dress?
In the description
@@HappyTailsAnimals where do I find the description. Sorry I am new to you tube
How to get Alpacas in India , if I want ?
I've heard of people owning alpacas for anxiety.
My alpacas give me anxiety. 😊
What about in Australia? i have a guardian alpaca for my chooks and since ive had him i havent had issues. The only predators we have are foxes and cats. Ive witnessed him spitting and stomping foxes and cats.s
We are talking about actual predators in North America. We face real problems.
@@HappyTailsAnimals We have real problems too, Just we happen to have less predators. And we have actual predators, just they arent as populated where i live
A professional alpaca breeder told me that they are guardians and that they will watch his chickens all night to protect them from foxes and wild dogs
But wild dogs are predators for alpacas and kill alpacas so I don't know how his alpacas protect his chickens
So need to buy 3 pairs of alpaca,🤪
Why do Americans have to talk for 15 mins when 2 mins of succinct rhetoric would work
Si quieres guardianes compren guanacos...
What?!?! u have a channel bruh lol
Oh yeah 😎. So? Want/need Livestock guardian get a Donkey!
Great video 👍 I have just posted my first chicken video would you check it out and give me feedback?
Seems much harder to have alpacas Than raising dogs or any other pets
People usually raise them for their wool.
They are first and foremost, livestock, you can have a few as pets but they are not companion animals. They require minimal professional care- shearing once a year is required. Sub Q shots done every 30 days year round to kill m- worm parasite. It's not hard to do and doesn't require a vet.
music is too loud
plz help happy tails my rats has 2 big bumps on his tail there is no vets near by i need advice
his eyes are red
and he cant stand up proper
plz help
@@breadstick685 Has he gotten better?
@@bethanyluck5780 he died a few days ago
@@breadstick685 Aw, I'm sorry :(
@@WyrdHag He did say there are no vets nearby. You are very critical of others, whose situations you do not know, but you seem very willing to assume the worst about them. If they are caring for an animal, and asking questions, that implies that they are caring people trying to learn more. Sometimes, people cannot change their situations overnight, and must live with having too few alpacas or a vet too far away. Unless, of course, you would like to step in and offer financial assistance to them. At least the Happy Tails folks are helpful in their comments.
By the way watch of for a horse making friends with a donkey or a lama making friends with an alpaca
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We need a celebrating Perth today body's in there never like to leave it that way when you put them in the breeding pair but we have a boy we can't have two boys again order fight
And we already have that alpaca we got pregnant
Do Alpacas in the wild group single sex herds
If you watched the video you would know that alpacas do not exist in the wild. Alpacas are domesticated animals so there are no wild alpacas.
Learned something new about alpacas today....they're 100% discriminate and racist.
Did you mention that they smell horrible and have a bad temper
They really shouldn't smell bad, I have gotten rescues that smell really bad and that's an issue with care. I don't think they have a bad temper, they are usually very sweet.
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Number one is buying an alpaca.
That's funny I just seen a rescue TH-camr and his alpaca just gave birth and he only has two of them and now the baby and they've been together for a couple years now
Yes it's very sad when people claim to be a rescue but don't care for the animals correctly. Happens very often unfortunately