Our love for llamas really happened by accident.  We bought a ranch and started acquiring animals.  We called it our search for "cute lawnmowers". Our first 3 animals to come barreling out of the back of our Chevy Tahoe were Pygmy goats.  A doe and her 2 kids.  VERY cute!  A month or so later,  3 Jacob ewes, very unique looking sheep with either 2, 4 or 6 horns dated back to Biblical times.  Well now we needed something to guard these little animals out in the pastures at night all alone which is how we learned about llamas.  Llamas make great guardian animals because of their natural instinct not to run away from danger.  They will stand their ground against predators while most animals run away.  So we went searching for a guard llama, and that's how we got Arnie.  He was an 18 month old gelded male who had shown some guarding tendancies on the ranch where he lived, so we brought him home, and to say we fell in love is an understatement.  Arnie was the best thing to grace these pastures in decades, just ask him!  You could usually find him perched high on a pile of rocks, or dirt mound, clucking as if to say he was "King of the World".  We VERY sadly lost Arnie last year to Oleander poisoning, he was in an area he had not been in before and got a hold of just a leaf or two and by the next day he was gone.  It's still hard to talk about him without feeling the loss, but we learned so much from his death, and he will never be forgotten.  We have since acquired many more llamas and have ventured into breeding this year.  We have 3 bred females with crias due next Spring.  The thought of them all "pronging" around the pastures with little fluffy crias in tow is very exciting.  If you have the opportunity to be around a llama, or certainly to own one, do, you will never regret it nor will you ever be the same. 

More Coming Soon about our llamas! Check back often!

Sweet Arnie boy
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Matt takes Grand Champion at his first ever
Southwestern Regionals!  Great job!


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