We attended the Cornwall Camelid Association alpaca show on Sunday 11th May 2008, where our fawn female Faye was crowned Supreme Champion Huacaya (type of alpaca) of the Show. We are absolutely delighted as it was quite unexpected - we knew she was good, but not THAT good!! She was shown by Tegen, our daughter, aged 12, who has been proudly showing off her Champion sash to all her friends.

We now sell beautiful knitwear and gifts made from the luxurious fibre (wool) of the Alpaca - e.g. hats, gloves, scarves, shawls, socks, teddy bears, children's jackets, jumpers, knitting wool - some of the items are hand knitted locally, from the fibre of our own alpacas.

The new Hendra Farm website is now up and running - we sell point of lay hens, as well as Jacob Sheep, and there is more information about our alpacas and magnificent Shire Horses.

We have had a very large crop of lambs from our Jacob ewes this year, including our first set of triplets! We have two lambs on the bottle, who just love going for a walk with Keen the spaniel.

Beauty -‘The Wonder Horse’
Beauty is one of our Shire Horses who gave birth to a lovely filly (girl) foal in May (2005). Unfortunately things didn’t go very well, and Beauty was taken very seriously ill. She was given only a 5% chance of survival as she was suffering from a condition called Toxic Laminitis which caused her hooves to die. It has been known for small ponies to recover by growing new hooves but a one ton Shire is a completely different matter!! However, against all the odds, Beauty fought back and started on a very long road to recovery. All was going well until October, when X-rays revealed a new threat – a very serious bone disease in one of hind feet. Again a very poor prognosis – her only hope was an operation to remove the infection. This would normally be performed under general anaesthetic in a veterinary hospital, but because she couldn’t be moved, it had to be done in her stable under sedation. Again, she fought back from this setback, and steadily improved over the winter. On Saturday 4th March 2006, for the first time in nearly 10 months, she came out of her stable and was allowed to wander around the yard every day whilst her new hooves strengthened. All was going well until the farrier became concerned that the foot that had been operated on had developed a lump on the sole which refused to heal – would time do the trick or was it something more sinister? After a very worrying few weeks, when we thought that Beauty might have to undergo another major operation on this foot, we were absolutely delighted when she was given the all clear on the 19th June 2006! She was been turned out in the paddock with her Mum Viddy, and her daughter Connie, and was so pleased to be back with her family that she did a celebratory canter (and several bucks!) across the field - not bad for a horse that didn’t have any feet 13 months ago!! Needless to say, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house! She's now fully recovered, and thoroughly enjoying being a local celebrity!