Take whatever you read on Social Media platforms with a boatload of salt. Trusting anecdotal solutions from well-intentioned but misinformed owners is a good way to make problems for your Alpacas and yourself. Just because people do things their way doesn’t make it right! We regularly trust only a few people in the pages we frequent. Ruthanne McCaslin and Jill McElderry Maxwell are two. There are others.
Since were speaking of social media, these are just a few of the Facebook groups to which we belong—we belong to over a dozen:
- Alpaca Farm Life
- Paca This
- Alpaca Everything
- Alpaca Talk
New and not so new Alpaca owners are invited to read or download in the “Alpaca Farm Life” Facebook Group files section:
- ”Alpaca Care Basics for New Owners” (very brief)
- “IC Institute’s Recommended Best Practices For Llamas & Alpacas”
- ” IC Institute’s Minimum Standards of care for Llamas & Alpacas”
Read our Dispelling Alpaca Myths & Errors page (which is in the planning stage currently). Most of these have appeared in one form or another online.
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