Pellets, hay, minerals and paddock kit for people who keep alpacas — ordered by the bag or by the pallet.
Most of what sits on a general farm-store pallet was blended for ewes, cattle or horses. Alpacas are camelids: they chew differently, they hold condition differently, and they are far more particular about the mineral balance in what they are fed. A feed that keeps a flock of lowland sheep ticking over is simply the wrong tool in a paddock of five alpacas.
That is the whole reason this business exists. We stock feed that was formulated for camelids in the first place — not re-bagged sheep nuts with a picture of an alpaca on the front — and we stock it alongside the rest of what an alpaca owner actually goes looking for in the same week: a bale of decent forage, a mineral lick that will not be ignored, a hay rack that stops half the crop ending up trodden into the mud, and the odd shearing comb before the summer.
We sell to breeders running a serious fibre herd and to people with three animals in a two-acre paddock, and we talk to both the same way: plainly, about what the animals need and what the shed can store.
Maintenance pellets for the bulk of the year, higher-specification mixes for pregnant and lactating females and for growing cria. Fibre-first formulations, small enough pellet size to be eaten rather than scattered.
Meadow and ryegrass hay in small bales for the feed room, plus larger quantities for herds that get through a load a season. Haylage and chopped forage where the barn is short on dry storage.
Camelid-balanced mineral powders, licks and buckets, plus the vitamin supplements owners look for through the dark end of the year. Labelled clearly so you can check the balance yourself before you buy.
Trough designs that let a whole group eat without one animal guarding the lot, and racks that keep hay off the ground and out of the fleece. Yard-proof fittings, not garden-centre plastic.
Shavings, straw and dust-extracted bedding for housing and birthing pens, with the fencing sundries, buckets and muck kit that go with keeping a paddock in order.
Combs, cutters and oil for shearing season, plus halters, lead ropes, toenail clippers, drenchers and the small consumables that always run out mid-job.
Tell us the herd and we put the list together — these are the headings most enquiries start from.
The everyday bag for adult animals in steady condition, fed alongside good forage.
Higher-specification feed for pregnant and lactating females and for youngstock still growing frame.
From a few small bales for a hobby paddock to a season's forage for a working herd.
Camelid-balanced minerals in powder, lick and bucket form, plus seasonal vitamin support.
Troughs, racks and wall fittings chosen to cut waste and stop one animal holding the feed.
The season kit: combs, cutters, oil, halters, clippers and the consumables that go with them.
Availability on forage moves with the season; we will tell you what is in the shed before you commit to anything.
What the work actually looks like.
The question we get asked most is not which bag to buy — it is how to move onto it. Camelid guts do not thank you for a sudden switch. The practical approach is to blend the new feed into the old over a run of days, starting with a small proportion and finishing on the new mix once the whole group is eating it without hesitation, watching dung and appetite as you go. If you keep a known fussy animal, feed the group where everyone has trough space and nobody is edged out.
Forage does the heavy lifting; hard feed is a top-up, not a diet. So before anything else we ask what your grazing is like, how the hay has turned out this year, how many animals you have and what stage they are at — dry females, pregnant, lactating, cria at creep, or working males. That is what decides whether you need one range or two running side by side, and how much shed space it will take.
Keep bags off the floor on a pallet, in the dark, with the lid on the bin and the vermin kept out. Buy to the storage you have rather than to the discount you would like: feed that has gone stale or damp in an overfilled barn is money burned, and alpacas will tell you about it before you notice yourself. If storage is tight, smaller repeat orders beat one big delivery, and we are happy to work that way.
I rang up with five animals and no idea what I was doing. They asked about my grazing first, then recommended less feed than I expected to buy. The pellets go down well and nothing gets scattered.
We run a fibre herd and order the breeder mix through the birthing months. Bags are consistent, batch numbers are on everything, and when the forage was short one year they told us straight rather than selling us something else.
Bought two covered hay racks after losing half the hay into the mud. Sturdy, and they walked me through where to mount them in the shelter. Delivery took a bit of arranging but it arrived as described.
Shearing kit and the mineral buckets both came from here. Useful to get the whole list from one supplier who actually knows camelids rather than guessing from the sheep aisle.
Send us the basics and we will come back with a stocking list and what is available now.
Thanks — someone will get in touch shortly with suggested ranges and what we have in the shed.
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