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Has anyone been on the courses with Julie in the UK? I am booked on a handling course at the end of the month and I wondered: What did you think? How did it change your methods?
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I haven’t done a course with Julie but I completed a basic and advance training course for the camelidynamics with Marty. I was taught on my husbandry course in the UK a corner and grab technique which both I and the alpacas did not enjoy.
Now the catch pens are a much calmer place to be and toe nail clipping, injections etc are so much easier. The techniques take time and patients but are well worth it in the end. The course teaches you skills for halter training and general handling. I suppose the thing to remember is that we are being trained not the alpacas/llamas.
I would not sell an alpaca without introducing the new owner to the techniques.
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I think Marty is over in September doing the advanced course, so I'm hoping to get on that as well.
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sorry to seem a bit dim but whats the Camelidynamics training method all about?
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Marty McGee Bennet in the States developed the methods and Julie Taylor Browne in the UK (I think) is the sole qualified teacher in Europe. Her website is: http://www.carthveanalpacas.com/training.htmlI have read the book and watched a couple of the videos and I have to say the handling methods do work!
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Hi Joe, Just out of interest, do they only use Alpacas during the Camalidedynamics training sessions and if so, are any of the Alpacas they use during the course untrained? The only reason I ask is because when we do our training courses we use both trained and untrained llamas. My logic behind this is that it is all well and good practicing methods on a calm trained llama but then when you want to use those same methods on a 180kg untrained llama which they have just taken delivery of, things can be quite different and they need to be able to read the llamas body language and know where to start training a llama which may possibly have never even come into contact with a human before (until it was loaded into the trailer). Rgds, Mike L
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Hi Mike. On the course I went on they used both untrained and trained animals. They also encourage owners to bring their own animals as well. I know that Julie runs llama only courses as well. I'm really pleased with the progress I am making with my llamas as well. They are 100% better than when they arrived.
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That is good news, sound like a good course.
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