Today though there is more good news to share. A very excited couple joined us (again) yesterday as they have decided to begin breeding friendly champion alpacas for quality fleeces . The good news (?!) was that all this rain we have had meant the entire herd was under cover and so fleece rumaging was the order of the day!
Some of our fleeces are developing very nicely indeed and one of the truly special ones is from a boy called Tenzing. His dam is Veruschka, one of our very best girls who at the 2007 Royal Fleece Show scored the 2nd highest score ever recorded in the UK. Veruschka (and Legend) also blessed us with Casiphia, our home bred Supreme Champion, below:
Any way, despite the very close attention afforded by our core herd, led by Meketaten who found that her head fit nicely under the arm of our visitors...three female alpacas have been selected to form a new breeding herd. The line up inlcudes Iolani and Lady (two girls with us on livery) and Barnacre Lacie, one of our youngsters from this year, daughter of Verushka and Gianmarco's Masterpiece. All very exciting and more details and pictures will follow!
Regular blog followers might recall that one of the other livery girls, Barbilla, acquired new owners a short while ago and she will stay with us on livery - same arrangement different human owners! Now that Iolani and Lady have been sold we have decided to advertise two of the other livery girls and details are on our sales page. Both are from very exciting genetics and offer exceptional value for the discerning breeder.
Solar panel time! What a great year to install solar panels! Last December as the house and shed were nearing completion we installed 40 solar PV panels on the Alpaca shed roof. The system is 9.6kWp and was supposed to generate 8,002 kWh and save over 4.5 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide per year. Well despite the fact that Mr Sun has been conspicuous by his abscence we actually beat the original estimate and generated 8,114 kWh! That means our panels have generated enough electricity to power two average households - not bad eh?
For the solar anoraks, the graph above is our weekly generation by week. The high point is the first 2 weeks of June and the other high was the last 2 weeks in March can you believe! We are happy to share our solar experiences and are delighted to recommend our installer, Chris Cassells of Opus Green - did you see our press release?
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