South East Alpaca Group Winter Meeting

The Winter Meeting of SEAG will be held at
Ashdown Llama Park at  12 mid-day on
SUNDAY 19th February 2012 – Please Save the Date!

We are delighted to welcome Mr Philip Cornish who will be talking about the work of the NFU and its bearing on Alpaca Owners and Breeders.  Phil is very experienced in many aspects of farming and agricultural policy and should be able to answer a wide range of questions. 
We also intend to cover topics of interest to all including:

World Alpaca Conference
The Felt initiative
BAS committees: Fibre, Welfare.

A more detailed agenda will be issued nearer to the date of the meeting.

If you have more suggestions for topics you’d like addressed, or future speakers, please contact Chair@SouthEastAlpacaGroup.org.uk

Remember that you do not have to be a BAS member to attend.
There will be the usual charge for lunch etc this time.

Please let us know if you do or if you don’t plan to attend, so that we can plan for catering.

Many thanks

Robert Reeve
Chair South East Alpaca Group

Please reply to secretary@southeastalpacagroup.org.uk

 

 

South East Alpaca Group Autumn Meeting

More than 30 Alpaca owners attended the Autumn Meeting of SEAG which was held at The Ashdown Llama Park on Sunday 16th October 2011. We were delighted to welcome Dr Tim Potter MRCVS from the WESTPOINT veterinary group, who talked about the care of aging Alpacas particularly aimed at small breeders and owners of small herds.  He continued his talk after a very good lunch, including information on worming, vitamin supplements, parasites and biosecurity, then answered questions from the group. The chairman and committee then ran through various topics of SEAG business and general interest including the merger of Animal Health and the VLA, current options for selling fleece, and biosecurity measures.

The Chairman told members about the World Alpaca Conference on 10-12th April 2012 and also spoke about the Spring Show at Ardingly on 6th and 7th May 2012 (for which volunteers are needed please). Liz Butler advised that she was not leading the organising of the show this year, but may be helping in the wings.

This meeting was generously sponsored by DEFRA through Livestock Health South East. There are funds available to hold further meetings on a variety of subjects, so members are asked to send any thoughts and ideas for another meeting, to the committee. A list of courses that have already been organised is on the Livestock Health South East website: www.livestockhealthsoutheast.org.uk

 The next meeting will be arranged for February next year, by common consent.