Llamas and alpacas : a guide to management

As well as being adorable animals with a thick, warm fleece, llamas and alpacas are also intelligent, discerning, curious and sociable.

In addition, they are docile, gentle and easily trained.

Natural grazers and browsers, they keep down hedges and pastures, they rarely challenge even the most pathetic fencing unless they are frightened, or in love.

They require very little supplementary feed, live outside all year round, are generally hardy, healthy and happy.