Welcome to Blencogo Farm

Welcome to our Blencogo Farm Alpacas Website! Please be advised we are no longer offering Alpaca Experiences. Find us on Facebook here: Blencogo Farm Facebook

For Alpaca Visits please contact Jane at King Garth Alpacas:

janehodgson@yahoo.co.uk 07762 286050‬

All of our alpaca products are handmade using 100% Blencogo Farm Alpaca yarn, knitted or crocheted or needle felted with love. Any questions, give me a call! 016973 61066

Kim x

Videos

This is Twinkle, our super friendly, calm alpaca who is loved by everyone she meets! She was born on June 17th 2017. She’s quite a bit bigger now than she is in this short film where she is 36 hours old and has definitely found her legs!

We – and the alpacas – at Blencogo Farm were asked to feature in a short film for BT after we took up fibre broadband in our rural Cumbrian village, Blencogo. This is the end result, made by Fides Media for BT.

About Alpacas

Alpacas are a domesticated species of South American camelid. There are two types of alpaca, Huacaya and Suri. The residents at Blencogo Farm are Huacaya which have dense, crimped, woolly fleece. It’s soft, durable, luxurious and silky and not itchy at all!

Alpaca Noises

Alpacas hum a lot. They do it when they are content, worried, bored and even when eating. If they are startled or frightened, they sometimes make a chirrupping sound. During mating the male alpaca makes a unique noise which is called orgling.

Alpaca Breeding

Alpaca babies are known as cria. An average pregnancy lasts around 350 days. Alpacas tend to give birth between 9am and 3pm. Cria feed from their mothers for about 6 months. At Blencogo Farm we try and plan our births for the summer months.

Alpaca Habits

Alpacas are curious, playful animals. Yes they can spit. though they don’t do it often. It’s partially digested grass, so it’s green and a bit smelly, but it washes off and isn’t harmful. Alpacas can kick with their back legs, don’t stand behind them or annoy them!