Last Updated: 28th of July 2010
11th November 2008 - On Armistice Day, Easter-Wood celebrated the birth of it's first Cria earning the name of "Poppy". See our Cria Gallery for pictures.
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14th January 2009 - Easter-Wood Alpaca Stud, as a relatively new enterprise, was awarded a "free marketing service" through a publication in a local newspaper as printed in the Wokingham Times on 14th January 2009.
www.getreading.co.uk/business/s/2043113_alpaca_means_business_at_wokingham_farm
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23rd January 2009 - Easter-Wood celebrated it's first sale with Longfield Snowstorm being sold to another enterprise based in Wales.
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24th February 2009 - Recognising the need to introduce Quality Genetics into the herd at a time of economic uncertainty is bound to be a financial challenge for us all however, we at Easter-Wood Alpacas are keen to promote our HerdSire, Ice Cool Lad as an affordable option for this coming Spring/Summer. His progeny are "outstanding" and we will be attending the British Futurity Show on Friday 27th February to actively promote his Quality as a First Class Stud. We look forward to meeting many of you!
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10th April 2009 - Pitching our Herd Sire at a market that is reeling from the ongoing economic downturn is a priority for us and we have decided to reduce the Stud fees for Ice Cool Lad to an attractive £400!
10th April 2009 - Our New Barn is now fully completed and looks absolutely fantastic!! Pictures have been uploaded on our web site.
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30th April 2009 - As we are concentrating upon our Elite herd this year, we will be reducing our other herd and selling a group of six females, three of which are pregnant, at a fixed price of £8000 + VAT. Details are on this site.
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4th May 2009 - Our first Elite male Cria (Navigator) was born today at 3:20 pm to Cambridge Sara with his Sire being Cambridge Neptune. Both Sheila and I are overjoyed as he will most certainly be our Herd Sire of the future! Pictures have been posted on our web site.
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13th May 2009 - Our second Elite male Cria was born today at 5:15 pm to EPC Cambridge Yuralee Daisy with his Sire being ACC Accoyo Remarque. Latest pictures are on our web site.
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21st May 2009 - Following a successful delivery of her Cria "Easter-Wood Navigator", our Cambridge Sara was mated with EP Cambridge Samson today courtesy of Rob & Lesley Rawlins, our friends from Wellground. Both Sheila and I believe that she will, yet again produce a fantastic Cria from this Elite mating!
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29th May 2009 - Another male Elite Cria was born today at Easter-Wood, again late afternoon at 4:10 pm. We have decided to call him Easter-Wood Sundown. His Dam is Yuralee Sunrise of EPC and his Sire is ACC Accoyo Killawasi.
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31st May 2009 - Our Herd Sire, Ice Cool Lad is now back on Easter-Wood Farm and is busy "servicing" some of our girls. Marmite was first up and as an experienced "Mum", she had a very good mating. He is of course now available for matings and with his fantastic progeny reputation, we expect him to be a popular choice.
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1st June 2009 - Another mating took place today, courtesy of Wellground's Close Encounter. We have put him with EPC Cambridge Yuralee Daisy and are looking forward to the resultant mating producing a top class offspring!
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10th June 2009 - Cambridge Ice Cool Lad had a couple of matings today. First was with Cammal Blackie which went fairly well and later that afternoon, we put him to another of our girls, Snowflake who was so relaxed about the event that it was difficult to get her up after 35 minutes! We expect ICL to introduce quality genetics for these girls.
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14th June 2009 - Rob Rawlins from Wellground Alpaca Stud paid us a visit today with "Samson" whom we put to one of our Elite girls, "Sunrise". Since it was very hot today and Sunrise's fleece is not due to be sheared until Wednesday of this week, we are not sure that she was too comfortable being mated! Never mind, Rob will be back to re-mate if the Spit-Off proves she has not been receptive!
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17th June 2009 - Shearing day today with 21 of our Alpacas up for a haircut! Mike Banks of Shearco came over to us in the afternoon and after a very busy 3 + hours, we were finished. It was well worth the hard work, ably assisted by Nina and Gemma, our daughter.
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18th June 2009 - Cambridge Ice Cool Lad was in action again today with a couple more matings, this time with Cheriton Torn Ear, a well-experienced "Mum" followed later by Frilly who whilst being a maiden, appeared to be very relaxed about the whole thing!
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19th June 2009 - Yet another of our Elite crias was born today. A female (first one this year) with Cambridge Neptune being her Sire. She is very strong and was on her feet within minutes! This is unusual for us as it was the first cria to be born at Easter-Wood without any birthing complications! We think that she is an absolute stunner and now has her brother, Navigator (born last month), Polaris and Sundown to play with. Pictures will soon be on our web site.
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21st June 2009 - Hectic day today! All Alpacas were vaccinated with Lambivac, conducted spit-off with 5 of our girls and gave Cambridge Ice Cool Lad a mating with "Black Magic". We greatly appreciated the help of our new found friends from Liecester, Karl & Lisa who are very enthusiastic about building their own Alpaca Breeding enterprise themselves. As Rob & Lesley Rawlins at Wellground had previously introduced them to us, we are all very keen that both Karl & Lisa are successful.
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24th June 2009 - Following a failed spit-off with one of our girls, Rob Rawlins from Wellground Alpaca Stud returned today for a re-mating of Yuralee Daisy of Cambridge with one of his superb studs, Wellground Close Encounter. We hope this is a successful mating as the resultant cria will, undoubtedly be of superb quality.
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28th June 2009 - Cambridge Ice Cool Lad was busy again today. This time, he was mated with one of our Greys and we will be interested in the resultant "union".
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3rd July 2009 - We had a visit from Matthew Lloyd of EP Cambridge today who brought down Cambridge Neptune for a re-mating with our Cambridge Olympus. We are hoping this re-mate works out well as their bloodlines are first class! Today also saw Cambridge Ice Cool Lad having another "session", this time with "Miracle".
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4th July 2009 - Today we had a visit from Roger at Snowshill Alpacas who brought with him his lovely solid white "girl" who was mated with Cambridge Ice Cool Lad. The "meeting" went well and we expect the resultant cria will be rather special.
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6th July 2009 - Cambridge Ice Cool Lad was once again busy today with one of our medium brown girls, "Frilly". She is a very well defined lady and we believe that she will produce a beautiful cria from this "union".
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7th July 2009 - Rob from Wellground paid us a visit again today with his "star" stud, Cambridge Buckingham to mate with Cambridge Eringa Park Artistry. Following this, we retired to have an update "chat" along with a welcomed cup of coffee!
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10th July 2009 - At 3:30pm today, we had another female cria, this time from a mating of our Blueberry Fedora to Rural Alianza Don Pepe of Wessex and surprisingly, 4+ weeks premature!! We have named her Easter-Wood Miss Moneypenny as her ear tag is number 007!
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11th July 2009 - As we now have a Blog linked to our web site, all of our news/activities will be posted on this in future.
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