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Starting an alpaca farm
Breeds, land and stocking rates, fencing and shelter, UK regulations, and the honest first steps before you buy a single animal.
A complete UK alpaca farming knowledge library from Derek Moore at Hensting Alpacas — breeds, land, feeding, breeding, cria care and fleece, drawn from raising alpacas in Hampshire since 2009. One payment, yours for life.
No fluff and no theory for its own sake — this is what Derek wishes someone had handed him on day one.
Breeds, land and stocking rates, fencing and shelter, UK regulations, and the honest first steps before you buy a single animal.
Year-round nutrition, hay and forage, the daily and weekly routine, and the health checks that catch problems early.
Mating, pregnancy, birthing and raising healthy cria — the part that rewards experience most, explained plainly.
The full natural palette, AOA and BAS colour classifications, and how colour and pattern pass down through a herd.
Where the returns really are — walking experiences, sales, fibre and adoption — and the risks nobody mentions.
The insider knowledge and hard-won lessons that only come from living alongside these animals since 2009.
Derek Moore runs Hensting Alpacas in Hampshire — a working breeding herd, an alpaca walking experience, and a home to animals people adopt and return to visit. This isn't a repackaged textbook. It's the decisions, mistakes and results from raising alpacas since 2009, written down.
If you're weighing up whether alpacas are right for you, or you've already got a pair and want to do right by them, you'll find the answers here that farms usually only share over a fence.
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Self-paced. It's an online knowledge library you can read as often as you like, in any order, for life.
No. It's a single one-time payment of £49.99 for lifetime access. There are no recurring charges.
Anyone in the UK thinking about keeping or breeding alpacas — from smallholders and hobby keepers to people planning a commercial herd or a walking business.
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