Alpaca Tribe

By Steve Heatherington

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The Alpaca Podcast for all things alpaca. Alpaca Tribe is for anyone who feels a connection with alpacas. It is for existing owners, everyone interested in keeping alpacas, people working with alpaca fleece or providing alpaca services, or those who are just alpaca mad. With our guests, we will look at getting into keeping alpacas; making the most of the ones you have got (and enjoying it); ways to use the fleece, not just store it; opportunities to develop business activities relating to alpacas; and growing in your experience, wherever you are starting. Each week we will be talking to people like you and to breeders, vets, producers and professionals. The Alpaca Tribe Podcast is your place for wisdom, guidance and great stories about all things alpaca, from people who know because they have already done it. Join the tribe at alpacatribe.com

Episode Date
Alpacas have eyes that look back
Apr 24, 2024
Spring makes me think of alpaca births
Apr 17, 2024
Be even more alpaca
Apr 09, 2024
Hats and alpacas revisited as spring arrives
Apr 03, 2024
Do your alpacas notice when you wear a hat?
Mar 27, 2024
Learning through alpaca shows - even if you do your own
Mar 20, 2024
Ways to thrive with your alpacas
Mar 13, 2024
Chirps, Honks, and Alpacas: A Winter Day on the Farm
Mar 06, 2024
Ten things that make alpacas different to other animals
Feb 28, 2024
How to grow your herd of alpacas
Feb 21, 2024
It is always hard when you lose an old friend
Feb 14, 2024
Assumptions we make about alpacas may not be the full story
Feb 07, 2024
A small breeder's view of the Australian alpaca industry
Jan 31, 2024
Summer and Winter at the same time
Jan 24, 2024
Using your head and your heart
Jan 17, 2024
Sitting in the cold with your alpacas
Jan 10, 2024
Thinking of planning your alpaca year
Jan 03, 2024
Sounds of the season
Dec 27, 2023
Seasons greetings and hopes for the new year
Dec 20, 2023
Your alpaca questions will change over time
Dec 13, 2023
How to avoid stress with alpacas
Dec 06, 2023
Reflections down on the farm
Nov 29, 2023
What do your alpacas think of at Thanksgiving?
Nov 22, 2023
How to know if you are an alpaca fanatic
Nov 15, 2023
The questions spread beyond alpacas
Nov 08, 2023
What are the best alpaca questions to ask?
Nov 01, 2023
What is your favorite time? Mine is alpaca time.
Oct 25, 2023
Marking 250 Alpaca Tribe episodes
Oct 18, 2023
Paying attention to the alpacas and other things
Oct 11, 2023
Taking a quick alpaca holiday
Oct 04, 2023
Storms on the horizon but it is that time of year
Sep 27, 2023
Knowing when to panic
Sep 20, 2023
Three steps to easy Alpacas or Alpacas the hard way
Sep 13, 2023
Are you having an ordinary day?
Sep 06, 2023
Goldilocks and the three bears Bonus
Aug 30, 2023
What stories do alpacas tell about us?
Aug 30, 2023
Being seen by your alpacas
Aug 23, 2023
Visitors are good for everybody
Aug 16, 2023
Being prepared and doing the ordinary stuff
Aug 09, 2023
Can you see beyond the ordinary?
Aug 02, 2023
Returning to the alpacas
Jul 26, 2023
Finding an alpaca rhythm you can follow
Jul 19, 2023
Alpaca fleece inspiration
Jul 12, 2023
An alpaca journey can take you a long way
Jul 05, 2023
Start with what you are good at
Jun 28, 2023
Did you know that alpacas queue?
Jun 21, 2023
Catching flies and thinking how to break cycles
Jun 14, 2023
What to look for in an alpaca
Jun 07, 2023
A quick run through the shearing at a slow pace
May 31, 2023
It will be nice when we finish and the alpacas agree
May 24, 2023
What is the best way to solve your alpaca problems?
May 17, 2023
Do you find your limitations helpful?
May 10, 2023
It's just how we roll with the alpacas
May 03, 2023
I always feel grateful to have alpacas in my life
Apr 26, 2023
I don't always make the right conclusion about my alpaca's behaviour
Apr 19, 2023
Shelter for comfort but also protection and safety for your alpacas
Apr 12, 2023
What makes you decide this is your favourite place?
Apr 05, 2023
Things that will make you a better alpaca shepherd
Mar 29, 2023
Do your alpacas like you singing?
Mar 22, 2023
When do you keep doing the same thing and when something different?
Mar 15, 2023
A visit from winter, the vet and the feed delivery man
Mar 08, 2023
How do we know when we have reached the end of the story?
Mar 01, 2023
Similarities and differences at the other end of the world
Feb 22, 2023
Reflecting on where we have got to with our alpacas
Feb 15, 2023
What are you going to do now?
Feb 08, 2023
Alpaca Shepherd Skills and Jeremiah's New Arrival
Feb 01, 2023
Alpacas keep you on your toes on both sides of the pond
Jan 25, 2023
Coats for the cold weather
Jan 18, 2023
Taking the long view with alpacas
Jan 11, 2023
Are you getting back to normal yet?
Jan 04, 2023
Living in the in-between
Dec 28, 2022
Alpacas, a stable, and thoughts of Christmas
Dec 21, 2022
An ice skating alpaca
Dec 14, 2022
My priorities in the cold weather - feeding and mucking out
Dec 07, 2022
What would make you do it differently?
Nov 30, 2022
Happy Thanksgiving and First Frost
Nov 23, 2022
Landmarks and milestones on your roadmap
Nov 16, 2022
What is your road map for your alpaca adventure
Nov 09, 2022
That's a lot of alpaca episodes
Nov 02, 2022
Going to your alpacas for wisdom
Oct 26, 2022
Learning to read the ruffles alpacas sometimes have
Oct 19, 2022
Alpacas and the green gym
Oct 12, 2022
Boys will be boys and Hermione is inscrutable
Oct 05, 2022
You never know who you might meet on the path
Sep 28, 2022
Getting past the fear
Sep 21, 2022
New arrivals for the Weisman's Part 2
Sep 14, 2022
New arrivals for the Weisman family
Sep 07, 2022
When you notice something, hold it long enough until you are sure
Aug 31, 2022
What business are we in?
Aug 24, 2022
Getting closer to deciding to keep alpacas
Aug 17, 2022
Are all your visitors welcome?
Aug 10, 2022
A walk and talk with the alpacas
Aug 03, 2022
Is that normal for an alpaca
Jul 27, 2022
Having fun with your alpacas
Jul 20, 2022
What are your sounds of summer?
Jul 13, 2022
Marking time at the pace of your alpacas
Jul 06, 2022
But what does it mean?
Jun 29, 2022
What does success with your alpacas mean to you?
Jun 22, 2022
Alpacas and the future
Jun 15, 2022
A successful shearing season
Jun 08, 2022
Time for an alpaca haircut
Jun 01, 2022
Things that surprise alpacas
May 25, 2022
Talking with my alpacas
May 18, 2022
Change is here to stay
May 11, 2022
Mistakes as learning opportunities
May 04, 2022
Life Lessons I have learnt from my alpacas
Apr 27, 2022
Understanding traction and friction to be a better alpaca owner
Apr 20, 2022
Understanding your alpacas
Apr 13, 2022
Felting with many needles with guest Lanette Freitag
Apr 06, 2022
Revisiting where Alpaca Tribe started
Mar 30, 2022
Spring is sprung for the alpacas
Mar 23, 2022
Making alpaca breeding decisions can be challenging
Mar 16, 2022
Everything in a state of flux
Mar 09, 2022
Alpacas are creatures of habit, usually...
Mar 02, 2022
Have you noticed the alpacas in the middle?
Feb 23, 2022
Alpacas have family and friends too
Feb 16, 2022
Thinking hazard and risk assessment when you have alpacas around
Feb 09, 2022
Making alpaca decisions
Feb 02, 2022
The joy of alpaca footprints in your backyard
Jan 26, 2022
Beginning where we left off we travel into the new year
Jan 19, 2022
Talking alpacas from a vet's perspective - Part 2
Jan 12, 2022
Talking alpacas from a vet's perspective - Part 1
Jan 05, 2022
Alpaca moments that stood out in 2022
Dec 29, 2021
Happy Holidays with your alpacas
Dec 22, 2021
How Geno and Vinnie met Flip and the story had to be told
Dec 15, 2021
A walk on the wet side
Dec 08, 2021
The calm after the storm
Dec 01, 2021
Thanksgiving with the alpacas
Nov 24, 2021
Decision making and procrastination with your alpacas
Nov 17, 2021
The first thing you notice about alpacas
Nov 10, 2021
Finding your alpaca rhythm
Nov 03, 2021
Looking after yourself and your alpacas
Oct 27, 2021
Confidence for everyone
Oct 20, 2021
Always learning and seeing the positive as well as the problem
Oct 13, 2021
5 reasons for keeping alpacas
Oct 06, 2021
Autumn has arrived – no, really this time
Sep 29, 2021
A late alpaca arrival
Sep 22, 2021
Can you be right every time?
Sep 15, 2021
What does it mean
Sep 08, 2021
Sitting about with the alpacas
Sep 01, 2021
Millie the alpaca matriarch is a bit of a stick in the mud
Aug 25, 2021
Always keep an eye on your alpacas - you just never know
Aug 18, 2021
The start of cria arrivals 2021
Aug 11, 2021
Listening to your alpacas and yourself
Aug 04, 2021
Physics and keeping alpacas – make it work for you
Jul 28, 2021
Being more comfortable with your alpacas
Jul 21, 2021
A bit more confidence with alpacas
Jul 14, 2021
Three things you can do to build your confidence with alpacas
Jul 07, 2021
The sounds of breakfast with the alpacas
Jun 30, 2021
More talking Australian alpacas - showing and shearing
Jun 23, 2021
Talking Australian Alpacas
Jun 16, 2021
What is it like to keep alpacas?
Jun 09, 2021
It is nice to know when you have finished something
Jun 02, 2021
Hidden beneath the alpaca fleece
May 26, 2021
Sleeping like a baby... alpaca
May 19, 2021
Connecting with old friends - Jeremiah Owen in California
May 12, 2021
Settling into the rhythm of a new season
May 05, 2021
What do you know about Alpacas? Take the quiz
Apr 28, 2021
The magic of felting with alpaca fleece
Apr 21, 2021
Creating the best environment for your alpacas
Apr 14, 2021
Let your alpacas put some colour in your life
Apr 07, 2021
Don’t you just love breakfast with the alpacas
Mar 31, 2021
Lessons from the pandemic and weaning
Mar 24, 2021
Alpaca Common Sense
Mar 17, 2021
Are your alpacas on mute?
Mar 10, 2021
How do you count your alpacas?
Mar 03, 2021
Why keep alpacas?
Feb 24, 2021
Watching and waiting as Spring inches closer
Feb 17, 2021
Remembering where we began with our alpacas
Feb 10, 2021
Approaching the spring with alpacas
Feb 03, 2021
Alpacas and the snow
Jan 27, 2021
When the vegetation is at winter's low tide
Jan 20, 2021
Starting the New year with your alpacas
Jan 13, 2021
Christmas Bonus
Dec 24, 2020
Reviewing the year 2020
Dec 16, 2020
Talking to alpacas
Dec 09, 2020
Alpacas 101
Dec 02, 2020
Celebrating 100 episodes
Nov 25, 2020
Grass is more than green
Nov 18, 2020
Paka Apparel with Kris Cody
Nov 11, 2020
Be more alpaca
Nov 04, 2020
What makes alpacas so calming?
Oct 28, 2020
Alpacas slowing down with the season
Oct 21, 2020
Keeping warm in Wisconsin and beyond with Campo Alpaca
Oct 14, 2020
Time until you have to mention alpacas?
Oct 07, 2020
Season change
Sep 30, 2020
Understanding Alpacas
Sep 23, 2020
Talking behaviour with Marty McGee Bennett – part 2
Sep 16, 2020
CameliDynamics with Marty McGee Bennett
Sep 09, 2020
Cria Catch Up with Tanya Russell
Sep 02, 2020
Wild wind and wet alpacas
Aug 26, 2020
About that alpaca fleece in the corner…
Aug 19, 2020
That Alpaca Question
Aug 12, 2020
Peru Projects and growing cria
Aug 05, 2020
Good fences for good neighbours
Jul 29, 2020
Losing Lewys
Jul 22, 2020
Older New Arrivals
Jul 14, 2020
Strange Summer
Jul 08, 2020
Cria Watch Continues
Jul 01, 2020
Catching cria
Jun 24, 2020
Cria naming
Jun 17, 2020
Creative Crochet with Toft
Jun 10, 2020
Shearing Wash Up
Jun 03, 2020
Alpaca Shearing can be fun
May 27, 2020
Traceable alpaca yarn - all the way to Peru and back
May 20, 2020
My Happy Place with alpacas
May 13, 2020
Alpacas and Llamas - as pretty as a picture
May 06, 2020
It's raining, alpacas
Apr 29, 2020
Shearing on the Horizon
Apr 22, 2020
Between Two Mountains
Apr 15, 2020
Navigating a Difficult Alpaca Birth
Apr 08, 2020
Alpaca Spring
Apr 01, 2020
waiting and remembering
Mar 25, 2020
Ramblings of an Alpaca Shepherd
Mar 18, 2020
The day alpacas entered my life
Mar 11, 2020
Does anyone need an alpaca dentist?
Mar 04, 2020
Cria Comfort
Feb 26, 2020
Alpacas on purpose
Feb 19, 2020
Fall in love with alpacas - Steve interviewed by Tania Marien
Feb 12, 2020
British Alpaca Society - the CEO speaks
Feb 05, 2020
Making a living from alpacas
Jan 29, 2020
Motivation and Behaviour in Alpacas
Jan 22, 2020
Meeting Your First Alpaca
Jan 15, 2020
Getting to Know You 54
Jan 08, 2020
Old Year New Year 53
Jan 01, 2020
Alpacas at Christmas 52
Dec 24, 2019
Moving Farm with Alpacas Pt2 //51
Dec 18, 2019
Alpacas Down-Under 50
Dec 11, 2019
What is going on? 49
Dec 04, 2019
My Alpacas and Other Animals
Nov 27, 2019
Californian Catch Up Alpaca Style 47
Nov 20, 2019
Basic alpaca appraisal 46
Nov 13, 2019
Having alpacas in your life 45
Nov 06, 2019
Season Change and Welsh Alpaca Show 44
Oct 31, 2019
Building your alpaca business 43
Oct 23, 2019
Building an alpaca business in Ireland 42
Oct 16, 2019
Alpaca Success 41
Oct 09, 2019
Alpaca Vision 40
Oct 02, 2019
The right number of alpacas 39
Sep 25, 2019
Expected Alpaca Behaviour 38
Sep 19, 2019
37 It is all about the fibre with Bridget Tibbs-Hamilton
Sep 11, 2019
36 Brian Schieber of Purely Alpaca, California
Sep 04, 2019
35 The Critical Alpaca
Aug 28, 2019
34 Planning a Farm Open Day
Aug 22, 2019
33 time in the alpaca barn
Aug 15, 2019
32 Seeing alpacas through your eyes
Aug 07, 2019
31. Confident & Fulfilled Owners
Jul 31, 2019
Happy and Healthy Alpacas
Jul 24, 2019
Choosing our alpacas
Jul 17, 2019
Waiting for the expected - cria that is
Jul 10, 2019
Alpacas - a metaphor for life
Jul 03, 2019
Review of 6 months Part 2
Jun 26, 2019
Celebrating 25 episodes
Jun 19, 2019
Jenny MacHarg part 2
Jun 12, 2019
Jenny MacHarg of Fowberry Alpacas
Jun 05, 2019
Expect the unexpected
May 29, 2019
A passion for alpaca fleece with Julia Berry of Apple Cross Alpacas
May 22, 2019
Preparing for shearing
May 15, 2019
Victoria Barrett of Simply Alpaca
May 08, 2019
Selling alpaca fibre and products to crafters
May 01, 2019
Alpacappella Jewellery with Marta Kwasniewicz
Apr 24, 2019
Ted & Bessie - sustainable and ethical alpaca knitwear
Apr 17, 2019
Handling and starting well with alpacas with Julie Taylor-Browne
Apr 10, 2019
BAS Show Reflections by Steve Heatherington
Apr 03, 2019
Topical Alpaca Tips from Steve Heatherington
Mar 27, 2019
Jeremiah Owen of Southern California
Mar 20, 2019
Mike Griffiths of Greenside Alpacas
Mar 13, 2019
Tynewedd Alpacas in Carmarthenshire - Steve & Emma Cooper
Mar 06, 2019
Moving experiences with alpacas - Steve Heatherington
Feb 27, 2019
Knowing your alpacas - Steve Heatherington
Feb 20, 2019
Hannah Williams of Penrhallt Alpacas
Feb 13, 2019
Could I keep alpacas? Questions to answer before you buy
Feb 06, 2019
Nick and Jo Davies on adding alpacas to holiday accommodation
Jan 30, 2019
Tanya Russell on learning to cope with an instant herd
Jan 23, 2019
Jen Delucia on fibre
Jan 16, 2019
How Rowan Flindall-Shayle got involved with alpacas
Jan 09, 2019
Alpaca Tribe - an introduction
Jan 02, 2019
Alpaca Tribe - Trailer
Dec 16, 2018