Llamas

Rural North Devon is home to this happy herd of breeding female Llamas

Roseland comes to Watertown

In 2008 at Watertown Llamas had the great good fortune to benefit from the dispersal of the unique and incomparable Roseland herd on the retirement of Paul and Judy Rose. In April 2008, our first five Roseland females came to Watertown, affectionately known as the five "ginger nuts", to be joined in May by Roseland Talisman, a very handsome stud male, and Zuleika, a striking black Roseland daughter by stud male Zulu. In my wildest dreams I could not have imagined that just six months later, another sixteen beautiful llamas from the Roseland herd would be joining us and I am forever grateful to Paul for this wonderful opportunity.

Who's the Daddy?

Bazzyll, a delightful, mild-mannered stud Llama, bred from Ordellamas sire, Prince Charles ( so named on account of his big ears ) and Ordellamas dam Georgina.

Roseland Talisman. "Tali" is a fine young stud male, bred by Paul Rose. His first Cria were born in summer 2009.

Tali is just 3.5 years old, very laid back, but enjoying his new career. Underneath his Lanuda fleece, Tali is a spotted Llama, and the optimistic hope is that he will sire lots morespotty cria especially when he breeds with some of Watertown Llamas lovely spotted females

The breeding females are from a wide and varied gene pool which includes Roseland and Ashdown Llamas. Joining us early in 2010 are two more woolly llamas, stud males from Switzerland, and some very beautiful Italians, picture on Watertown Woollies. Llamas are Camelids, along with camels, alpacas, guanacos and vicunas. A Ccara is the most usual type of llama to be found in the UK, having a relatively short fleece. A Tampuli llama is more heavily fleeced, such as the Tapada llama, while a really woolly Tampuli llama is known as a Lanuda. In the case of a suri llama the fleece hangs in curls or ringlets. Llama fleece can be gathered either by combing or by shearing, and makes a fine warm wool for hand-spinning. Llamas come in many colours, so while the llama wool can be dyed, the natural colours already on offer give plenty of variety.

Watertown Llamas are trained and handled using Marty McGee-Bennetts Camelidynamics methods and all our llamas are registered with the British Llama Society. A llama is quite likely to live for fifteen to twenty years, so buying a llama is not to be undertaken lightly. Watertown Llamas are sometimes available to buy and for further information please look on our llamas for sale page. Marty Mc-Gee Bennetts Camelydynamics British Llama Society

The Watertown herd is a colourful mix of different characters and big personalities, in a variety of shapes, sizes and fleece types. Every llama is an individual, which is just another one of the wonderful things about llamas!

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