Fraser Valley
Llama and
Alpaca Club

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Maureen Dones and Don Gibbs, Librarians

To borrow any book, CD, magazine or video, simply click on the name of the item and it will open an e-mail to Maureen and Don.

Books

A Guide to Raising Llamas:
Care, Showing, Breeding, Packing, Profiting
by Gale Birutta

The most complete and up-to-date llama guide available. The time and research put into this book has evolved into the most, complete and comprehensive llama guide available. This guide is useful to veteran llama owners as well as beginners. While the book covers all aspects of llama ownership from purchasing to the show ring, it also covers alternate business opportunities. Charts and forms are available for everything from veterinary records to goal-setting.

Caring for Llamas and Alpacas:
A Health and Management Guide
by Claire Hoffman, Ingrid Asmus

This book will help you to spot health problems, and makes a great guide for every-day care. A must read for every llama owner.

Llama Handling and Training
The TTEAM Approach
by Marty McGee with Linda Tellington-Jones (1992)

This book starts with a concise history of the llama, discusses llama traits and behavior, and then goes on to explain how to buy, house, feed, transport, care for, and trains these animals. The book also deals with their health problems, desensitizing to being handled, nail trimming, and behavior problems. It is packed with photos to illustrate grooming, training, birthing, and much more.

Medicine and Surgery of South American Camelids
by Murray E. Fowler, DVM (1989)

A must book for all lama owners and lama vets.

Spinning Llama and Alpaca (1998)
by Chris Switzer

This book is written for students, spinners and those people wanting to utilize the fibre from their llamas and alpacas. It’s aim is to help and encourage people who are new to spinning, and to offer ideas to more advanced spinners, plus give information to breeders. The book is based on the author’s experiences with her llamas and alpacas, working with their wool, teaching workshops on the subject, and creating finished products with her llama and alpaca fibre.

The Felting Needle
by Ayala Talpai

This book introduces you to felting with a needle rather than soap and water. It focuses on the techniques needed to make “creatures” such as attaching locks and appendages (legs, tails) to your work. Several projects are detailed in the book, taking you step-by-step through their creation. Felting needles are included with the book, to give you an opportunity to try the techniques.

The Working Llama
by Wes Holmquist

This book is for all you classic llama lovers out there! Wes Holmquist is a veteran packer and classic llama breeder. He lays out his opinions on the best structural types of llamas for using as packers and why we should be continuing to breed the classic llama for packing. The book is comprised of short articles on various packing-related topics such as “How Much Can a Llama Really Pack”.

CDs

Llama Talk™:
Understanding Llama Behaviour
as a Foundation for Training and Herd Management
by Cathy Spalding

Llama Talk™ is a textbook on CD-ROM containing over 100 colour photos of llama behaviour and recordings of llama vocalizations accompanied by authoritative and descriptive text on an easy-to-use CD-ROM! Works with Windows or Macintosh.

Excerpt from the Introduction:

“The purpose of Llama Talk™ is to assist in understanding many of the behavioural cues our llamas present to us each day. Understanding llama behaviour is the necessary foundation upon which training, care and herd management skills are built. Llama behaviours, “llama talk”, can be fleeting and difficult to observe. Without some understanding of what we might be observing, subtle cues can be confusing or missed entirely.”

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