Sallie's Fen 2002 News!!!


Nov 30 & Dec 1 We took part in the NEAOBA Holiday Open Farm Tour. We were featured on the front page of the Manchester Union Leader newspaper (see Page 1 and Page 2). We got at least 50 visitors Saturday and more than 80 people Sunday!!!
October 19 & 20 We took Sebastian (now owned by Christine Benken and Linda DeCaprio) and Calvados (now of CynJim Alpacas) to the Empire Alpaca Extravaganza. Sebastian placed 4th out of five in his (very competetive) full fleeced halter class but his cria fleece received a BLUE RIBBON! Calvados got a BLUE RIBBON in his full fleeced halter class - way to go boys!
October 13 Oreo had her beautiful 20 lb cria! We have named him Isinglass - after the local river, which is in turn named for the mica that sparkles from the rocks around here. So cria watch is over for this year! More photos here
October 5 We are very proud to announce the arrival of a beautiful all-black girl - "Sallie's Fen Amélie". She was 13 lbs at birth and is Melissa's first cria. Amélie's sire is all-black Natanis (an El Negro son owned by Silver Hill Alpacas). Look at those LONG legs! More photos here
September 26 Jed's Sebastian wins his second blue ribbon - in his composite class at the 2002 Big E!
September 14 Jed has a new all-black daughter named Sabine born to Posey (a brown Silversmith daughter) at Kilblaan Farms - Congratulations!
July 24 and 25 Two new cria!!! Dynasty and Candace had their crias within 25 hrs of each other - now Addie has two new playmates! See 2002 Cria for details
July 4 What a day to celebrate - Malary had her third cria - and first girl! Abigail Adams (Addie for short) is a beautiful maroon color and weighed a whopping 23 lbs at birth! Her sire, Fosters Cerveza is very proud!
June 10 Nicola and Sallie go to Shearing School at Champlain Valley Alpacas in VT. Bill Watkins of TN was an excellent teacher and we all learned a LOT!
May 9 Arthur got sheared and went to his new home just a few miles away at CynJim Alpacas! We will miss him, but we're glad that he will be close by and with Puccini, Calvados, Trillium and Acadia.
We also attended the following events: May 4th and 5th, 2002 New England Alpaca Fest, http://www.neaoba.org/NEAFpr.html. Charlotte is the spinner! May 11, 2002, 4th Annual Customer Appreciation Production Sale, at Maple Brook Farm, Westfield, Massachusetts. http://www.customerappreciationsale.com/
NEAF 2002 View
Apr 25-28, 2002 EASTERN ALPACA JUBILEE in Harrisburg, PA, We made the long haul to PA to what is probably the largest alpaca show in the world with some 1400 entries- quite overwhelming! Jack and Sebastian were pleased to win the blue ribbon in the big Open Showmanship class. Jack's cousins showed up with their kids Audrey and Jake to meet the alpacas.
April 12-13 After several days of HOT weather (over 90F one day!) we started shearing the older boys. Jed is shown here (left) with all the dirt blown out of his fleece and ready to enter Sallie's shearing parlor. He was very good, even without the "happy drugs" we used on some of the others. - Except that he drew the line at having his legs done today - as you can see (right), he would MUCH rather go find the girls!
April 12 The girls got their first taste of the new green grass in our front pasture - yum!
Spring Show Season is here! April 4-7, 2002, We attended the North American Alpaca Show, Eastern States Exposistion, West Springfield, MA, http://www.alpacatours.com Jed's Sebastian brought home a first place Blue Ribbon in his juvenile grey class (out of 9), judged by Don Julio Sumar - way to go!
April 7 On our way home from Springfield we stopped by at Rosebriar Alpacas to see our favorite bottle-fed cria Winston! He is doing wonderfully well and at 6 months is 60 lbs and growing fast! He is pictured here with Chanel who has "adopted" him. (They look so similar but aren't related!). For more photos click here
March 25 Back from a fabulous time in New Zealand attending the wedding of our friends Cathie and Stuart! Click on the photo to get to the wedding pages. We also got to see lots of NZ alpacas - report to follow later!
March 1 - Nicola's digital camera arrives so look out for lots of new fuzzy (or not so "fuzzy") photos- yea!