1addicts Chillout Pub

[sparoz]

I think it is time to get a pub going, where everyone can just chill out, have a beer. Everyone lately is take everything way too serious.

Cheers everyone

[Zuzu]

Nice one Steve..

[Alpine*]

Originally Posted by Zuzu

Nice one Steve..

Didn't think you smoked Joe hehehe

[RaihaX]

Is a long weekend so even better

[luster]

Joe, twice as fit as any of us, smokes more than any of us...haha :P

[alik01]

So... How about that weather?

[ansch]

So who's keen to invest in emus?

[alik01]

I'm down with emus. More keen on llamas though,

[sparoz]

Originally Posted by alik01

I'm down with emus. More keen on llamas though,

They look like alpacas

[alik01]

Originally Posted by sparoz

They look like alpacas

Better quality coat though. Better spitters too.

[sparoz]

Someone actually know the difference?

[Harlequin]

[alik01]

Difference between llama and alpaca
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As you can see from the photo below, there really are a lot of differences between llamas and alpacas. The llama is roughly twice the size of the alpaca and the llama has a very coarse outer coat over a softer inner coat - as opposed to the alpaca, which has a very fine, single coat. In addition, the llama produces far less fiber per animal than the alpaca, despite its much larger size.

This is because the alpaca was domesticated and carefully bred for over 5000 years as a luxury fiber-producing animal. The llama has been bred for the same amount of time as a pack-carrying animal. The alpacas in the photo below are recently shorn but you can see many photos of full-fleeced alpacas elsewhere on this website.

From time to time, I will hear people say that alpacas have a nicer disposition than llamas or vice versa. Neither of these statements is true. Both are very friendly, curious and easily trained and handled as long as they were not handled incorrectly by their original owners.*Despite being an alpaca breeder, I will admit that llamas seem to remain calmer when they are not with their own kind.* This should not be used as an excuse to keep one alone in a field though.*Both are herd animals and need other members of their own kind to live with.* Keeping a llama or alpaca alone is very cruel.
The llama and the alpaca can interbreed and produce live offspring, and those offspring are also fertile. There is no point in doing this on purpose, however. The result of such a breeding would be an animal that was neither as strong as the true llama nor would it have as nice a fleece as a true alpaca.

[alik01]

Originally Posted by sparoz

Someone actually know the difference?

Please read above.

[TimMc]

Originally Posted by alik01

Difference between llama and alpaca
*
As you can see from the photo below, there really are a lot of differences between llamas and alpacas. The llama is roughly twice the size of the alpaca and the llama has a very coarse outer coat over a softer inner coat - as opposed to the alpaca, which has a very fine, single coat. In addition, the llama produces far less fiber per animal than the alpaca, despite its much larger size.

This is because the alpaca was domesticated and carefully bred for over 5000 years as a luxury fiber-producing animal. The llama has been bred for the same amount of time as a pack-carrying animal. The alpacas in the photo below are recently shorn but you can see many photos of full-fleeced alpacas elsewhere on this website.

From time to time, I will hear people say that alpacas have a nicer disposition than llamas or vice versa. Neither of these statements is true. Both are very friendly, curious and easily trained and handled as long as they were not handled incorrectly by their original owners.*Despite being an alpaca breeder, I will admit that llamas seem to remain calmer when they are not with their own kind.* This should not be used as an excuse to keep one alone in a field though.*Both are herd animals and need other members of their own kind to live with.* Keeping a llama or alpaca alone is very cruel.
The llama and the alpaca can interbreed and produce live offspring, and those offspring are also fertile. There is no point in doing this on purpose, however. The result of such a breeding would be an animal that was neither as strong as the true llama nor would it have as nice a fleece as a true alpaca.

I've eaten both & still can't tell the difference...

I'd buy you all a round at that Pub Sparoz!

[RaihaX]

You eat them?????

[alik01]

Delicious! I prefer camel though.

[RaihaX]

Yeah I've eaten camel before but had no idea you can eat that!

Did you try guinea pigs in south America? I hear that is a delicacy there.

[alik01]

Anything in an Argentinian BBQ is a delicacy! Those dudes know how to cook their meat!

[TimMc]

I couldn't bring myself to eat the guinea pigs. They put the whole animal on your plate and that'd a bit scary for me. I used to have a pet guinea pig when I was a kid

Yeah, love the Argentinian barbies!

[alik01]

Originally Posted by TimMc

I couldn't bring myself to eat the guinea pigs. They put the whole animal on your plate and that'd a bit scary for me. I used to have a pet guinea pig when I was a kid

Yeah, love the Argentinian barbies!

Same. Except for pet pig but!

[RaihaX]

I think the most exotic food I had was a whale. Need to go to Argentina to get some exotic meat!