llamas Archives

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Crystal

Fun Farm Facts Friday – October 30th

Have you ever heard people talking about farm animals and been confused about the terminology they were using? With this week’s farm fact I’m here to help! Below you will find several terms used when describing the farm animals that… Keep Reading

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Crystal

Fun Farm Facts Friday – October 16th

A few months ago I posted a fact about the 5 month gestation of goats. Well, this gestation is incredibly short compared to llamas. The length of a llama’s pregnancy is 11.5 months and ends with a single baby!! I… Keep Reading

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Crystal

Fun Farm Facts Friday… September 25th

With all of these facts about goat breeding I thought it would be nice to have a fact about llama breeding… even though both of our llamas are gelded (castrated) males. Llamas do not have cycles. They are induced ovulators!… Keep Reading

Posted on September 21, 2015July 31, 2020 by Crystal

How the rest of our animals eat

Back in May I wrote a post about what we feed our goats (here). Since the products that come off of our farm come from the milk that our goats supply we felt that it was important that our customers… Keep Reading

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Crystal

Fun Farm Fact Friday… August 28th

Have you ever wondered what farms do with all of the manure that their animals produce? Here on The Freckled Farm we use it for our compost and garden. Both goat and llama fecal matter has little to no odor… Keep Reading

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Crystal

Fun Farm Fact Friday… July 31st

Given that we are now in the dog days of summer I felt like it was a good time for this fact about llamas… We discussed before how llamas are in the same family as camels, so they share many… Keep Reading

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Crystal

Fun Farm Fact Friday… July 24th

Did you know that llamas are not actually hoofed animals? On each foot they have two toenails and on the bottom they have a leathery pad. This hoof structure makes them very sure footed. It allows them to have better… Keep Reading

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Kevin

Keeping predators out of your fencing

Here at The Freckled Farm we have a tendency to go a little overboard in our planning of new projects. One example of this is our fencing. Most farms we have been to or visited use a pretty standard field… Keep Reading

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Crystal

April’s “Other” Pictures

So, I am getting these posted a little late this month. What can I say… It’s the start of the busy season. Here are the “other” pictures (the photographs that weren’t the “picture of the day” from our 365 project,… Keep Reading

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Crystal

Llama Shearing

Every year, when the temperatures start to climb, we shear our guard llamas Afton and Blue Ridge. This keeps them cool during the dog days of summer. Since we do not have the equipment required to do the shearing ourselves… Keep Reading