The Slice
Frosty Ridge Alpaca Sheering
6/3/2022 | 1m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
It's getting warmer outside, which means it's time for these Alpaca coats to come off!
It's getting warmer outside, which means it's time for these Alpaca coats to come off! The Slice got to spend some time at Frosty Ridge Alpacas as they sheer the winter coats.
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The Slice is a local public television program presented by PBS North
The Slice
Frosty Ridge Alpaca Sheering
6/3/2022 | 1m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
It's getting warmer outside, which means it's time for these Alpaca coats to come off! The Slice got to spend some time at Frosty Ridge Alpacas as they sheer the winter coats.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipI love the alpaca personality.
Each animal is as different from one to the other as human beings are.
We are at Frosty Ridge Alpacas in Duluth, Minnesota.
My husband and I are owners and operators of the alpaca farm.
We have alpacas for their fiber.
They are raised and they are shorn once a year and their fiber is our harvest.
Sharing has to be done once a year and we share our alpacas at the end of May.
It's the perfect temperature.
Nights aren't too cold, days aren't too hot, but the coats have to come off them before summertime.
Their native atmosphere is the Andes Mountains, where there is 0% humidity here, 80 degrees with 80% humidity is way too hot for them to be able to handle.
We do have to restrain them because alpacas do not like to be told what to do.
So we restrain them humanely.
We do not hurt them.
What's really fun is how different they look without their coats, but they're happy.
And this way they can frolic all summer long and not have to be overheated.
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