Keeping Alpacas: Secrets from the field
Helen Rose lives in rural Suffolk, on a smallholding, with her patient husband,lively daughter, a shaggy dog and lots of Alpacas.Helen teaches the A to Z of alpacas for her local agricultural college and writesabout alpacas for national magazines.'Years ago I was mad about horses and kept two on our smallholding then I readabout alpacas. They are amazing, hardy, look gorgeous and even smell nice,a bit like a wheat biscuit. They produce a luxury fibre and they are the easiest grazinganimal to keep.My learning curve began when I started looking after my own animals and a new businesswith Alpacas.'