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My alpaca GOES TO SCHOOL!

Peering into the paddock after arriving home from work one day, my jaw hit the ground.

There, sitting on the grass was a baby alpaca, about the size of a cat.

I run Kenzell Farm and its B&B, McKeown’s Rest, in Oberon, NSW. An interactive farm, it’s where day or overnight visitors can get up close and personal to alpacas, llamas, miniature goats, donkeys and chickens.

I knew my alpaca Latte was pregnant but she wasn’t due for another two weeks.

Clearly, she’d given birth prematurely, but what was

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