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Kunznickel Alpakas

14.07.20

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Kunznickel Alpakas

10.07.20

Happy Birthday 🥳 Paulina (7) Amadeus (5) und Ginger (3) Auf viele weitere schöne Jahre 🥰 ... Mehr lesenWeniger

Kunznickel Alpakas

03.07.20

Alles Gute zum 2. Geburtstag kleiner Thor, Sohn von Odin 🥳😘 #thor #odin #alpakageburtstag #happybirthday #alpakasofinstagram #alpaka ... Mehr lesenWeniger

Kunznickel Alpakas

25.06.20

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag Diego (5) und Bounty (4) 🥳 #happybirthday #Diego #bounty #alpacasofinstagram #alpakageburtstag ... Mehr lesenWeniger

Kunznickel Alpakas

15.06.20

Happy Birthday zum 13. mein Sturkopf Aedan. Auch wenn die Augen trüb werden und die Ohren nicht mehr so funktionieren, merkt man dir dein Alter doch sonst kaum an. Bleib mir noch lange lange erhalten, ohne dich wär ich nie ich geworden 🥰 #happybirthday #Aedan #bordercollie #lifetimedog #bestdogever ... Mehr lesenWeniger

Kunznickel Alpakas

13.06.20

Willkommen in der Herde süsse Maya, wir freuen uns auf viele hübsche Fohlen von dir 🥰 #maya #neuinderherde #alpakas #alpakasofinstagram #alpacasofinstagram #kunznickelalpakas ... Mehr lesenWeniger

Kunznickel Alpakas

12.06.20

Happy Birthday liebe Jocy zu deinem 9. Geburtstag 🥳 Wir sind schon ganz gespannt auf deinen Nachwuchs im August. ... Mehr lesenWeniger

Kunznickel Alpakas

11.06.20

Und Amadeus so „Entschuldigen sie Herr Ober, ich hab da Haare in meinem Heu“ 🙈 #amadeus #haarimheu #knoppers #alsoichlieggut #verwöhntesbalg #alpacasofinstagram #alpaka #alpacas ... Mehr lesenWeniger

Kunznickel Alpakas

05.06.20

Wichtige Infos anschaulich zusammengefasst, für jeden der überlegt sich Alpakas anzuschaffen 😉We are the italian alpaca society, but you asked for these infos to be translated and shared in English, so we provided this public service for our favorite camelid! 🙂

Alpacas are extremely social animals, but their sociability is expressed and shared only with other alpacas. Their communication and interaction with other alpacas is very complex.
The alpacas feel safe inside a herd of their kind, each specimen has a role in the group and has a night guard duty! By living in herd, alpacas keep the stress levels low and live peacefully.
Unfortunately, all these mechanisms fail when an alpaca lives with other types of livestock.

-THE LIVING WITH EQUINES:
Horses, donkeys, ponies, mules are very territorial and do not appreciate intrusions in their territory. The alpacas, for their part, are very curious, and not knowing how to communicate with the equines in an appropriate way they could run into serious dangers. Horse kicking can kill or seriously injure even an adult alpaca. It is not uncommon to hear about donkeys that have bitten and detached ears or tail to alpacas that have been placed in their enclosure! Furthermore, the food competition between alpacas and equines is totally unbalanced in favor of the latter. A donkey / horse will easily protect its hay feeder from other animals, effectively depriving smaller or weaker animals of the chance to eat.
The only advisable thing to do between these two species is the rotation of the pastures, alternating camelids and equines, as they do not share the same gastrointestinal parasites. Indeed, with the passage of some donkeys / horses in the pastures where alpacas usually graze, will decrease the parasitic load present in the soil. Definitely a practice that benefits both animals.

-THE LIVING WITH GOATS AND SHEEP:
Alpacas are very intelligent and clean animals. They use one or two very delimited areas as toilets, leaving all the rest of the barn and pasture clean, which will therefore also remain free of gastrointestinal parasites. Sheep and goats do not produce their feces in a controlled way, but spread them over the whole surface of the pasture and the barn. As a result, the whole environment will be contaminated with gastrointestinal parasites (worms). Alpacas and goats / sheep share the same parasites. This becomes even more dangerous because alpacas have a much lower parasitic load resistance than sheep and goats.
An alpaca that lives with these animals will have problems and will certainly need very frequent deworming, with the possibility of developing resistance to wormers.
This makes the coexistence of these animals highly inadvisable. The same happens with cattle, where there is also the problem of the difference in size.

-THE LIVING WITH PIGS:
Pigs are occasionally omnivorous, it is not ok to keep together alpacas and pigs, especially if cria births are expected. In addition, pigs tend to dig and spoil the land.

-THE LIVING WITH HENS:
Some hens that scratch inside the alpaca pasture help keep the pasture clean. Hens clean the toilets of the alpacas from larvae, ticks and insects. When the numbers are limited, the presence of hens is beneficial for cleaning the environment in which the alpacas live.

We promote alpaca good management by spreading this informations as much as possible. Too many times we see alpacas kept alone or in the company of animals with which they cannot communicate or that even turn out to be dangerous for them. Alpacas are gregarious animals and must always be kept in the company of other alpacas of the same sex.

The SIA Team
Kindly translated by Barbara Veterano (an italian breeder living in Ireland) ... Mehr lesenWeniger

Kunznickel Alpakas

05.06.20

Wünsch euch allen nen spuckfreien Start ins Wochenende 😬 #spitting #nospitting #spithappens #alpacas #alpacasofinstagram #alpakas ... Mehr lesenWeniger

Kunznickel Alpakas

31.05.20

Bloss net im Schatten liegen... gut dass der Hals so flexibel ist 😂 #warmduscher #sonneistleben #alpakasofinstagram #alpakas ... Mehr lesenWeniger