Welcome to
Border Llamas
Where
we pride ourselves on the wellbeing and quality of our llamas and the
excellence of service we provide to our clients.
Situated amidst the beautiful rolling hills of the Bourbonnais
region of the Allier, Auvergne, France, Border Llamas is a
Llama
Breeding Farm offering quality llamas for sale in France. We will also
shortly be offering Llama
Trekking trips and residential hands on Llama Training
Courses.
The owners of Border Llamas, Sue & Mike Longhurst have been
successfully breeding and training llamas for over 9 years (the last 5
years being in France) and during this time we have satisfied a wide range of client
requirements, which range from providing llamas for field pets, companion
animals, start up breeding herds right through to sourcing, training and
delivering complete trekking herds for new trekking centres all over France and
the UK.
Llamas are a popular animal in
France with the numbers of owners and breeders rising steadily in all
Departments. As people with land, be it overgrown, rough, rocky or wooded,
start to realise the environmental benefits of keeping llamas, more and more can
be seen as you meander your way round the rural roads. Llama Trekking in
France is
also becoming a popular activity where
the abundance of national parks, forests and walkways provide idyllic settings
for such a unique and thoroughly enjoyable activity.
Being a small family run llama breeding business, we are able
to focus purely on rearing and training quality llamas. We do not breed
Alpacas or any other animals, just llamas, which means we can
concentrate on giving each animal the individual attention it warrants and ensure that we can bring out their
best qualities. We also personally
train llamas for llama trekking centres and will
shortly be offering 1 week in depth hands on llama training courses for prospective and
current llama owners who wish to broaden their knowledge and llama handling
skills. During these courses, we will use both trained and untrained
llamas as we feel that this is the only way people can fully develop their
handling skills and knowledge.
Whether
you wish
to start breeding llamas, start up a llama trekking centre, have llamas as field companions for other
animals or to simply own llamas to help graze and manage your land, we can advise and assist you.
If you would like to know more about
Llamas, their care and upkeep, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We
do not believe in applying any pressure to purchase on callers and we are quite
happy for farm visits so you can get to see the llamas close up (we do not
charge for farm visits).
Our aim is to provide you with
as much advice and assistance as possible in order that
you can make an informed decision as to whether keeping Llamas is the
right move for
you and more importantly that you will be able to provide the
right conditions for the Llamas to continue to lead a healthy lifestyle should
you decide to become owners at some point in the future.
We can
personally deliver llamas to any part of France or arrange for delivery to any
location within the European Union using fully qualified and licensed transporters who are
conversant with and conform to the legal requirements for the transportation of llamas. All
llamas will be fully vaccinated and personally checked and inspected by a fully
qualified and legally registered French vet prior to any international
transportation. If you purchase llamas and are not quite ready to receive
them yet, we can
keep your llamas safe here at the farm until you are ready to move the
llamas to your new premises .
All
our adult Llamas for sale are individually registered and micro-chipped and we have signed and
fully comply with the Code of Conduct for the sale of
Llamas as set by the
British Llama Society (BLS).
With all our Llamas, we provide
a totally free 24 x 7 support and after care service for all our customers
regardless of location.
For UK customers we provide a
complete service and take care of all the paperwork and obtain the necessary
Export (French) and Import (UK) licenses, carry out all the required veterinary
checks including blood tests (TB & Brucellosis and
BlueTounge) and liaise directly with
the UK
and French State Veterinary Services and your chosen transporter (we can recommend suitable
licensed transporters). We have
supplied a number of llamas to the UK and are fully conversant with and comply
with all the legal requirements to ensure that your llamas arrive in the UK
legally, fully blood tested, vaccinated, in good health and on time.
Thank you for visiting our web site,
we hope you enjoy and benefit from the information and pictures provided for
your pleasure.
Please
Note:
Llamas
are not difficult to care for or expensive to keep. However,
we will not sell a Llama to anyone unless we are absolutely certain
that the purchaser fully understands what is involved in keeping a Llama healthy
and that they have adequate facilities to maintain their quality of life.
Finally:
If you ever see a llama which looks like it is
not being treated and cared for correctly and has no or insufficient food, water or shelter,
please give us a call and we will do our best to advise on the course of actions
you should take. We are happy to assist in the legal rescue,
transportation and re-homing of any llamas in France found to be in a distressed state
regardless of the distance of travel involved.
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