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Alpaca Tribe — 360 episodes

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Back to routines and rhythms with the alpacas

2

Shearing is completed for another year

3

Far flung friends meeting the alpacas

4

Do you focus on the big picture or close up?

5

Spring arrivals and departures in the valley

6

What could your lifetime journey actually be?

7

Slowing down to an alpaca rhythm

8

A half hour holiday with the alpacas

9

The best plan is an alpaca plan

10

Alpaca breakfast is my favourite meal of the day

11

Areas of alpaca growth

12

And so the alpaca new year begins

13

A Christmas walk with in the valley with the alpacas

14

A welcome from the alpacas

15

How alpacas can teach you to be flexible

16

Alpacas in the reservoir valley

17

A walk and talk in the valley

18

Catching up with visitors to the valley

19

Food water and mucking out - the daily alpaca chores

20

Have you worked out how alpacas sit down?

21

Fall arriving in the valley with the alpacas

22

What is a good number of alpacas to have?

23

A beautiful morning for breakfast with the alpacas

24

What to ignore with your alpacas

25

How to prepare for cria birthing season

26

Fond memories of cria watch and alpaca birthing season

27

Hunting flies and growing your alpaca herd

28

That was a close shave

29

Some alpaca jobs just need two people

30

Chilling in the sun with the alpacas

31

How to speak alpaca - or at least try

32

Valley update and podcast news

33

Alpacas get old too

34

A Spring/Autumn catch up with Rita Soares in Australia

35

An update in the valley with the alpacas

36

Rate limiting factors for growth

37

One way to help your alpacas trust you

38

Great opportunities to spend time with your alpacas

39

Providing appropriate shelter for alpacas

40

Creating the best expectations with your Alpacas

41

What alpacas need and like

42

Alpaca reflections after breakfast with the girls

43

Knowing when it is time to change tack

44

The holidays are over but winter work is available

45

Being in control is limited

46

Alpacas in the new year - continuity or conservation

47

An alpaca New Year

48

Holiday Greetings and being intentional

49

I went in search of Normal and found it

50

On my own in the quiet valley

51

My alpacas remain a mystery

52

Valley update in the quiet after the storm

53

Winter weather can always catch you by surprise

54

There's always something when you have alpacas

55

Megan's Mischief and Amelia's Feast: An Alpaca Story

56

Autumn With Alpacas: Pastures, Paths, and Posturing

57

It is good to maintain your tools and fences

58

Happy and healthy alpacas

59

Unexpected change to the alpaca feed arrangements

60

That seems like a lot of alpaca breakfasts

61

Questions people often ask me about alpacas

62

Alpacas seem to slow me down, in a good way

63

Know where your alpacas are

64

Alpacas are good in any weather

65

Alpaca Intelligence - the new AI

66

When you are feeling a bit lost with your alpacas

67

As herd animals alpacas want to be together

68

Your favourite alpaca colour

69

Watching in the valley

70

The challenge of predicting alpacas and the weather

71

Are you noticing the alpaca daily grind?

72

Is it better to lead or manage your alpacas?

73

Was your latest alpaca day ordinary or extraordinary?

74

A quiet start to the alpaca day

75

It's not over until it is finished

76

Back to the beginning

77

Shearing alpacas is always different

78

Walking with alpacas literally and metaphorically

79

Food fleece and feathers

80

What is it like to live with alpacas?

81

What could intentional interactions with your alpacas look like?

82

Arrivals that surprise

83

Alpacas have eyes that look back

84

Spring makes me think of alpaca births

85

Be even more alpaca

86

Hats and alpacas revisited as spring arrives

87

Do your alpacas notice when you wear a hat?

88

Learning through alpaca shows - even if you do your own

89

Ways to thrive with your alpacas

90

Chirps, Honks, and Alpacas: A Winter Day on the Farm

91

Ten things that make alpacas different to other animals

92

How to grow your herd of alpacas

93

It is always hard when you lose an old friend

94

Assumptions we make about alpacas may not be the full story

95

A small breeder's view of the Australian alpaca industry

96

Summer and Winter at the same time

97

Using your head and your heart

98

Sitting in the cold with your alpacas

99

Thinking of planning your alpaca year

100

Sounds of the season

101

Seasons greetings and hopes for the new year

102

Your alpaca questions will change over time

103

How to avoid stress with alpacas

104

Reflections down on the farm

105

What do your alpacas think of at Thanksgiving?

106

How to know if you are an alpaca fanatic

107

The questions spread beyond alpacas

108

What are the best alpaca questions to ask?

109

What is your favorite time? Mine is alpaca time.

110

Marking 250 Alpaca Tribe episodes

111

Paying attention to the alpacas and other things

112

Taking a quick alpaca holiday

113

Storms on the horizon but it is that time of year

114

Knowing when to panic

115

Three steps to easy Alpacas or Alpacas the hard way

116

Are you having an ordinary day?

117

Goldilocks and the three bears Bonus

118

What stories do alpacas tell about us?

119

Being seen by your alpacas

120

Visitors are good for everybody

121

Being prepared and doing the ordinary stuff

122

Can you see beyond the ordinary?

123

Returning to the alpacas

124

Finding an alpaca rhythm you can follow

125

Alpaca fleece inspiration

126

An alpaca journey can take you a long way

127

Start with what you are good at

128

Did you know that alpacas queue?

129

Catching flies and thinking how to break cycles

130

What to look for in an alpaca

131

A quick run through the shearing at a slow pace

132

It will be nice when we finish and the alpacas agree

133

What is the best way to solve your alpaca problems?

134

Do you find your limitations helpful?

135

It's just how we roll with the alpacas

136

I always feel grateful to have alpacas in my life

137

I don't always make the right conclusion about my alpaca's behaviour

138

Shelter for comfort but also protection and safety for your alpacas

139

What makes you decide this is your favourite place?

140

Things that will make you a better alpaca shepherd

141

Do your alpacas like you singing?

142

When do you keep doing the same thing and when something different?

143

A visit from winter, the vet and the feed delivery man

144

How do we know when we have reached the end of the story?

145

Similarities and differences at the other end of the world

146

Reflecting on where we have got to with our alpacas

147

What are you going to do now?

148

Alpaca Shepherd Skills and Jeremiah's New Arrival

149

Alpacas keep you on your toes on both sides of the pond

150

Coats for the cold weather

151

Taking the long view with alpacas

152

Are you getting back to normal yet?

153

Living in the in-between

154

Alpacas, a stable, and thoughts of Christmas

155

An ice skating alpaca

156

My priorities in the cold weather - feeding and mucking out

157

What would make you do it differently?

158

Happy Thanksgiving and First Frost

159

Landmarks and milestones on your roadmap

160

What is your road map for your alpaca adventure

161

That's a lot of alpaca episodes

162

Going to your alpacas for wisdom

163

Learning to read the ruffles alpacas sometimes have

164

Alpacas and the green gym

165

Boys will be boys and Hermione is inscrutable

166

You never know who you might meet on the path

167

Getting past the fear

168

New arrivals for the Weisman's Part 2

169

New arrivals for the Weisman family

170

When you notice something, hold it long enough until you are sure

171

What business are we in?

172

Getting closer to deciding to keep alpacas

173

Are all your visitors welcome?

174

A walk and talk with the alpacas

175

Is that normal for an alpaca

176

Having fun with your alpacas

177

What are your sounds of summer?

178

Marking time at the pace of your alpacas

179

But what does it mean?

180

What does success with your alpacas mean to you?

181

Alpacas and the future

182

A successful shearing season

183

Time for an alpaca haircut

184

Things that surprise alpacas

185

Talking with my alpacas

186

Change is here to stay

187

Mistakes as learning opportunities

188

Life Lessons I have learnt from my alpacas

189

Understanding traction and friction to be a better alpaca owner

190

Understanding your alpacas

191

Felting with many needles with guest Lanette Freitag

192

Revisiting where Alpaca Tribe started

193

Spring is sprung for the alpacas

194

Making alpaca breeding decisions can be challenging

195

Everything in a state of flux

196

Alpacas are creatures of habit, usually...

197

Have you noticed the alpacas in the middle?

198

Alpacas have family and friends too

199

Thinking hazard and risk assessment when you have alpacas around

200

Making alpaca decisions

201

The joy of alpaca footprints in your backyard

202

Beginning where we left off we travel into the new year

203

Talking alpacas from a vet's perspective - Part 2

204

Talking alpacas from a vet's perspective - Part 1

205

Alpaca moments that stood out in 2022

206

Happy Holidays with your alpacas

207

How Geno and Vinnie met Flip and the story had to be told

208

A walk on the wet side

209

The calm after the storm

210

Thanksgiving with the alpacas

211

Decision making and procrastination with your alpacas

212

The first thing you notice about alpacas

213

Finding your alpaca rhythm

214

Looking after yourself and your alpacas

215

Confidence for everyone

216

Always learning and seeing the positive as well as the problem

217

5 reasons for keeping alpacas

218

Autumn has arrived – no, really this time

219

A late alpaca arrival

220

Can you be right every time?

221

What does it mean

222

Sitting about with the alpacas

223

Millie the alpaca matriarch is a bit of a stick in the mud

224

Always keep an eye on your alpacas - you just never know

225

The start of cria arrivals 2021

226

Listening to your alpacas and yourself

227

Physics and keeping alpacas – make it work for you

228

Being more comfortable with your alpacas

229

A bit more confidence with alpacas

230

Three things you can do to build your confidence with alpacas

231

The sounds of breakfast with the alpacas

232

More talking Australian alpacas - showing and shearing

233

Talking Australian Alpacas

234

What is it like to keep alpacas?

235

It is nice to know when you have finished something

236

Hidden beneath the alpaca fleece

237

Sleeping like a baby... alpaca

238

Connecting with old friends - Jeremiah Owen in California

239

Settling into the rhythm of a new season

240

What do you know about Alpacas? Take the quiz

241

The magic of felting with alpaca fleece

242

Creating the best environment for your alpacas

243

Let your alpacas put some colour in your life

244

Don’t you just love breakfast with the alpacas

245

Lessons from the pandemic and weaning

246

Alpaca Common Sense

247

Are your alpacas on mute?

248

How do you count your alpacas?

249

Why keep alpacas?

250

Watching and waiting as Spring inches closer

251

Remembering where we began with our alpacas

252

Approaching the spring with alpacas

253

Alpacas and the snow

254

When the vegetation is at winter's low tide

255

Starting the New year with your alpacas

256

Christmas Bonus

257

Reviewing the year 2020

258

Talking to alpacas

259

Alpacas 101

260

Celebrating 100 episodes

261

Grass is more than green

262

Paka Apparel with Kris Cody

263

Be more alpaca

264

What makes alpacas so calming?

265

Alpacas slowing down with the season

266

Keeping warm in Wisconsin and beyond with Campo Alpaca

267

Time until you have to mention alpacas?

268

Season change

269

Understanding Alpacas

270

Talking behaviour with Marty McGee Bennett – part 2

271

CameliDynamics with Marty McGee Bennett

272

Cria Catch Up with Tanya Russell

273

Wild wind and wet alpacas

274

About that alpaca fleece in the corner…

275

That Alpaca Question

276

Peru Projects and growing cria

277

Good fences for good neighbours

278

Losing Lewys

279

Older New Arrivals

280

Strange Summer

281

Cria Watch Continues

282

Catching cria

283

Cria naming

284

Creative Crochet with Toft

285

Shearing Wash Up

286

Alpaca Shearing can be fun

287

Traceable alpaca yarn - all the way to Peru and back

288

My Happy Place with alpacas

289

Alpacas and Llamas - as pretty as a picture

290

It's raining, alpacas

291

Shearing on the Horizon

292

Between Two Mountains

293

Navigating a Difficult Alpaca Birth

294

Alpaca Spring

295

waiting and remembering

296

Ramblings of an Alpaca Shepherd

297

The day alpacas entered my life

298

Does anyone need an alpaca dentist?

299

Cria Comfort

300

Alpacas on purpose

301

Fall in love with alpacas - Steve interviewed by Tania Marien

302

British Alpaca Society - the CEO speaks

303

Making a living from alpacas

304

Motivation and Behaviour in Alpacas

305

Meeting Your First Alpaca

306

Getting to Know You 54

307

Old Year New Year 53

308

Alpacas at Christmas 52

309

Moving Farm with Alpacas Pt2 //51

310

Alpacas Down-Under 50

311

What is going on? 49

312

My Alpacas and Other Animals

313

Californian Catch Up Alpaca Style 47

314

Basic alpaca appraisal 46

315

Having alpacas in your life 45

316

Season Change and Welsh Alpaca Show 44

317

Building your alpaca business 43

318

Building an alpaca business in Ireland 42

319

Alpaca Success 41

320

Alpaca Vision 40

321

The right number of alpacas 39

322

Expected Alpaca Behaviour 38

323

37 It is all about the fibre with Bridget Tibbs-Hamilton

324

36 Brian Schieber of Purely Alpaca, California

325

35 The Critical Alpaca

326

34 Planning a Farm Open Day

327

33 time in the alpaca barn

328

32 Seeing alpacas through your eyes

329

31. Confident & Fulfilled Owners

330

Happy and Healthy Alpacas

331

Choosing our alpacas

332

Waiting for the expected - cria that is

333

Alpacas - a metaphor for life

334

Review of 6 months Part 2

335

Celebrating 25 episodes

336

Jenny MacHarg part 2

337

Jenny MacHarg of Fowberry Alpacas

338

Expect the unexpected

339

A passion for alpaca fleece with Julia Berry of Apple Cross Alpacas

340

Preparing for shearing

341

Victoria Barrett of Simply Alpaca

342

Selling alpaca fibre and products to crafters

343

Alpacappella Jewellery with Marta Kwasniewicz

344

Ted & Bessie - sustainable and ethical alpaca knitwear

345

Handling and starting well with alpacas with Julie Taylor-Browne

346

BAS Show Reflections by Steve Heatherington

347

Topical Alpaca Tips from Steve Heatherington

348

Jeremiah Owen of Southern California

349

Mike Griffiths of Greenside Alpacas

350

Tynewedd Alpacas in Carmarthenshire - Steve & Emma Cooper

351

Moving experiences with alpacas - Steve Heatherington

352

Knowing your alpacas - Steve Heatherington

353

Hannah Williams of Penrhallt Alpacas

354

Could I keep alpacas? Questions to answer before you buy

355

Nick and Jo Davies on adding alpacas to holiday accommodation

356

Tanya Russell on learning to cope with an instant herd

357

Jen Delucia on fibre

358

How Rowan Flindall-Shayle got involved with alpacas

359

Alpaca Tribe - an introduction

360

Alpaca Tribe - Trailer