The Knit Wits, one of the knitting groups I belong to here in Winona, had a little field trip a couple of weeks ago to Carothers Country Farm Those are not horses you see grazing here. They're llamas. The farm processes wool and also raises and sells Argentine llamas.
Being curious animals, they all came running down the hill to check us out, then promptly stood off in a group just looking lovely and waiting for the piropos to come flooding in.
This little one didn't want to give me the time of day, just totally ignoring my attempts to get a good photo.
Until I remembered that these are Argentine llamas. So I coaxed him over in my best porteño accent, "Che, vení, quiero sacar una foto de vos". And that worked for a second.
I forgot to get a shot of the studs in the other pen. Males and females have to be separated due to the whole induced-ovulator aspect (remember, we talked about this after my visit to Margaret's farm last spring).
How rude, we came right at dinner time.
4 comments:
Glad to have you back blogging! Beautiful animals. I adore llamas and alpacas. I wanted to get a pet alpaca once. They are very sweet and almost feline in temperment.
Love the shot with the llama looking right at you. What a look!
que bueno leerte otra vez; espero la hayas pasado bien con las compatriotas ;)
En esa granja venden lana? O solo crian las llamas?
te mando un beso
of course! all you need to do is appeal to their argentinianess... works for all of us.
How cute! I just went to an alpaca farm with my knitting friends, but no llama farms yet. I love that the baby understood Spanish ;)
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