Chestnut farm news
Another great day for the Chestnut Farm Team at Stokesley Show 2024
We travelled up to Stokesley on Friday afternoon to attend the Yorkshire Alpaca Group Halter show which was held at the Stokesley show on the Saturday, what a lovely show and what a lovely day we had.
Our small show team did us proud with our two Inter... Read More
Show success for the Chestnut Farm team in Northumberland
We had the most amazing day at the Northumberland County show on 25th May 2024.
We took a small show team of four and they all did us proud.
Chestnu... Read More
Show success at Yorkshire Alpaca Group Show 2023 for Chestnut Farm Alchemist
A NEW STUD BOY FOR 2022
Chestnut Farm are very excited to introduce a new stud boy for 2022, we have acquired a lovely light brown boy called Inca Nobleman, this young male is a lovely true to type alpaca with good substance of bone and a correct frame.
He has got a lovely so... Read More
Birthing season is over for 2022
The birthing season has now finished here at Chestnut Farm, we finished on 7 cria, with 3 boys and 4 girls, 3 of them being coloured and 4 being white.
We saw the arrival of our first Inca Nobleman cria... Read More
More show success for the Chestnut Farm team.
Back in October 2021 we took a team of 4 to the YAG halter show, we were extremely proud when all of the show team came away with placings, especially when Chestnut Farm Defiant was awarded 1st intermediate white male and then Champion white male.
Read MoreAlpaca Manure
Chestnut Farm can also provide alpaca manure, this is a great fertiliser, it is a cold manure so can be applied straight away without the need to allow to rot down.
It can also be soaked in water to form a liquid form of fertiliser.
This is supplied... Read More
Lovely Cria from 2019
Our first cria from Beck Brow Ammunition are looking great, all are now weaned and are progressing nicely with their halter training, we are so pleased with how these cria are developing.
Some of these young boys will be ready to go to a new home in t... Read More
A great day at Yorkshire Alpaca Group Show
We had a fantastic day on Saturday, we attended the Yorkshire Alpaca Group show, it was a great turnout and was lovely to see all our friends again. We took a small show team of 4 including our young male Chestnut Farm Brodie who is a son of Lord of Sherwood, he was entered in t... Read More
Some little beauties for 2018
We have had another good year here at Chestnut Farm, all of our cria for this year are safely on the ground now, there were only five of them and they are all girls. We have also had quite a few of our Alpacas go to new homes, it is lovely to see how happy our new owners are whe... Read More
Another new addition to our herd
2018 has been an exciting year for us here at Chestnut Farm, as earlier on in the year we saw the arrival of our new young stud male Beck Brow Ammunition, we are delighted to have his genetics in our herd and have got some beautiful Lord of Sherwood daughter's for Ammunition to g... Read More
Some stunning cria for 2017
We have had some beautiful cria born this year, there have been six male cria and six female cria born so far and we are just waiting for one more cria to arrive, they are all little stunners.
Such a cheeky little chap
This little boy is always up to mischief.
Some Beautiful Cria for 2016
We have had some lovely cria born this year including three boys sired by Burtonconstable Mr C, two of them white and the third a lovely dark fawn boy out of Wellground Buckingham's Alice, we have also had a lovely solid white boy sired by our own Chestnut Farm Razzle Dazzle and ... Read More
Another beautiful cria
We had a lovely solid white female cria born at the weekend, this gorgeous little girl is sired by our young stud male Chestnut Farm Razzle Dazzle, who is sired by Wellground Close Encounter, her dam is Chestnut Farm Saffey, who is also the dam to Chestnut Farm Lord of Sherwood, ... Read More
Another Little Cracker is born
We have had another birth this week, our maiden Chestnut Farm Dizzy Lizzy gave birth to a lovely solid white boy yesterday, he is sired by Chestnut Farm Lord of Sherwood AKA Woody who has produced some absolutely stunning offspring this year.
Our latest addition to the herd.
We had an absolutely beautiful cria born last week out of our fawn girl Wellground Buckingham's Alice. She has previously given us three solid white boys and i did say to her the other week that if she gives us another white boy that she might have to go up for sale, so just to p... Read More
A trip to the coast
I have had a little run out to the coast today to deliver three of our pet boys to their new home. They have gone to live at Skegness Natureland, the staff were all very excited to meet the new arrivals, once unloaded and turned out in their paddock the boys settled straight awa... Read More
More Show Success for Chestnut Farm Lord of Sherwood’s Progeny
We had another great show at YAG show at Thirsk this year, it is always such a great show with such a friendly atmosphere. We took along Chestnut Farm Lord of Sherwood's three 2013 female offspring. They were all entered in the Intermediate White Female class which was the bigg... Read More
Two more stunning cria born this week.
We have had a busy week here with two more of ours girls giving birth, firstly Chestnut Farm Stardancer gave birth to a stunning female cria sired by our Supreme Champion Chestnut Farm Lord of Sherwood, Star had been the size of a house for quite some time but still made us wait ... Read More
Show success for Chestnut Farm Lord of Sherwood’s first progeny.
We had a fabulous day on the 26th may, we traveled up to the Northumberland County Show with a small show team of five. We were thrilled with how well they all did but the highlight of our day has to be when Chestnut Farm Cassie, who is the very first progeny of our Supreme Champ... Read More
A great start to the 2014 birthing season
We have had our first cria born this year, an outstanding solid white male sired by our Supreme Champion Chestnut Farm Lord of Sherwood, he is a stunning little chap, as you would expect from a quality prize winning sire. He did keep us waiting though, being nearly four weeks ove... Read More
Woody Wins Supreme Champion Again
We are all delighted here at Chestnut Farm after our attendance at Westmorland County Show on Thursday 12th September, we had a very successful day. Chestnut Farm Dizzy Lizzy was awarded 3rd Intermediate White Female. Chestnut Farm Razzle Dazzle was awarded 4th Intermediate White... Read More
Two female cria this week
We have had a busy week here at Chestnut Farm, we had a vet student here on placement all week, thank you Sarah for all your help, so we have been catching up on our routine husbandry and matings and spit offs. Then on Wednesday E P Cambridge Secregaze gave birth (perfect timi... Read More
Woody gets is first daughter
We are absolutely thrilled here at Chestnut Farm, we have just had the birth of a stunning solid white female cria sired by our Supreme Champion Chestnut Farm Lord of Sherwood, her dam is our own Chestnut Farm Stardancer. This cria is just what you would expect from parents with ... Read More
A busy week at Chestnut Farm and more rosettes.
We had a very busy week here at chestnut farm last week. We had the birth of Papalona's cria on thursday, a stunning beige male by Chestnut Farm Buckshot. Then we had another birth on saturday, Jingo gave birth to a stunning white male this is the first cria sired by our prize ... Read More
Woody wins supreme champion at Northumberland County Show 2013
Chestnut Farm is yet again celebrating another winning performance from Chestnut Farm Lord of Sherwood. Our attendance at the Northumberland County Show 2013 resulted in a 1st Adult White Male, this then resulted in winning Champion White Male followed by the delight of winning ... Read More
A Good Weekend at the National Show
We attended the national show at Bury Farm Equestrian Centre over the weekend, it was a lovely show, there were over 300 entries. We took three Alpacas to the show and they each came home with a rosette so we are very happy with this. Chestnut Farm Razzle Dazzle was awarded 5th... Read More
A New Cria at Chestnut Farm
The first cria of the year was born on friday, a solid white male cria out of Chestnut Farm Saffey, he is a stunning cria, his sire is our own Chestnut Farm Augustus.
Another Rosette for Woody
Chestnut Farm Lord of Sherwood was awarded 2nd Adult White Male at the Spring Alpaca Fiesta at Stoneleigh 2013, we are thrilled with this result.