When an alpaca gets sheared...
We hand sheared her and Cady, our llama... And it was not easy, but it went much better then we expected.
We had no intention of using the wool (and we hadn't regularly cared for their fiber by brushing and keeping it clean), so we where not to picky on how the fiber was taken off. Now they both look like they got a bad haircut and lost a few pounds... and we saved a few hundred dollars by doing it ourselves by hand. (buying a pair a electric shears is 350, and it's about 200 to hire someone to come out and to it for us.)
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