Animals of Dunns Creek

We have collected a few animals looking for a home to graze the remaining two paddocks which are too small to carry vines and too distant from the house for enlarging the orchards.

A two-year-old  alpaca mother and her first baby born on Christmas Day 2010 (Cleopatra and Caesarion) share their paddock with a 5 year old male for breeding purposes, bringing his lighter and variegated colours into our small herd. He is called Mark Antony for obvious reasons. Cleopatra is expecting her next baby, Mark Anthony is the father, in February next year so she will be looking more and more rounded as the summer wears on. They share their paddock with two sheep, one white one black( rescued from another property) and love human contact.

In the paddock around the dam you will see three young male alpacas, aged one to two years. They are Diego and his best mate Tutankhamun  while always in the background is black Nero (fiddled alone while Rome burned and got covered in soot) who will be always on the outer. Diego and Tut will feed from your hand but Nero won’t .

They are accompanied by twin white goats, with cute little wattles hanging from their necks, who have been bottle-fed as kids and are therefore very keen to run up as you approach and will eat all you offer. They are called Castor and Pollux – after the heavenly twins who make up the star sign of Gemini. Alpacas have, like all members of the camel family, no upper front teeth so you cannot be bitten – the same applies to the goats.

A warning – if you annoy an alpaca he will spit at you!

The “kangaroos” you may sight down in the wetlands or along the creek are actually black swamp wallabies.