Zephyr Halters

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Designed by Marty McGee Bennett and handmade to her exact specifications by Mennonite harness makers. A well designed halter should be SAFE, COMFORTABLE as well as EFFECTIVE as a tool to communicate with your camelid—or you shouldn’t use it.

Camelids are semi-obligate nasal breathers, meaning they breathe through their nose. A halter that slips forward on the nose bone will compress the nasal cartilage, compromise the airway, and your animal will likely panic. For a halter to be comfortable it must offer enough room in the nose band for an animal to eat and ruminate. A well-fitting halter fits the HEAD, not the nose.

The Zephyr halter is proportioned very differently than other halters. Properly adjusted, a halter will stay put well up on the nose bone and still offer plenty of room for comfort. Halters that are not safe or comfortable will lead to behavioral problems that can be difficult to overcome such as: extreme halter avoidance, bucking and panic on the lead, kushing and refusing to lead.

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  • Alpaca Halter

    Alpaca Halter

    $25.00

    Zephyr alpaca halters are proportioned to be safe and comfortable and designed to be effective as a tool of communication. Llama halters come in 4 sizes and 10 colors.

    Sizing

    • Extra small Fits from 3-6 months or smaller, more delicate heads.
    • Small Fits most weanlings up to 8-10 months
    • Medium Fits large weanlings, yearlings, most adults.
    • Large Fits large animals
    • Extra Large Fits the new style wedge shaped heads even when they have lots of wool

    This-End-Up Halter
    If you are just learning to train camelids, try this black halter with a color coded upper nose band that will also help you orient the halter in your hand.  It’s also pretty snappy looking!

    We are now in the “pink”  just added… pink alpaca halters!

     

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  • Alpaca Halter (Second Chance- buckles on animal's right side)

    Alpaca Halter (Second Chance- buckles on animal’s right side)

    $25.00

    Zephyr second chance alpaca halters are proportioned to be safe and comfortable and designed to be effective as a tool of communication.  The second chance alpaca halter comes in 3 sizes and a two color options special orders available.

    Sizing

    • Small Fits most weanlings up to 8-10 months
    • Medium Fits large weanlings, yearlings, most adults.
    • Large Fits  larger animals especially larger males with more wedge shaped heads.

    This-End-Up Halter
    If you are just learning to train camelids, try this black halter with a color coded upper nose band that will also help you orient the halter in your hand.  It’s also pretty snappy looking!

     

     

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  • Extra Large Llama Halter

    Extra Large Llama Halter

    $25.00

    A halter for those big majestic llamas that will insure the same comfortable fit and range of options for leading from the ring on the noseband.

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  • Llama Halter

    Llama Halter

    $25.00

    Zephyr llamas halters are proportioned to be safe and comfortable and designed to be effective as a tool of communication. Llama halters come in 3 sizes and 10 colors… NOW IN PINK!

    Sizing System for Llamas 

    With the three size system the Zephyr Halter will fit all llamas without the need for special orders to accommodate extra large or extra small.  The following is a guide for the three size system.

    Sizes

    SMALLL: Fits from 3-6 months or smaller, more delicate heads

    MEDIUM: Fits large weanlings, yearlings, small adults

    LARGE: Fits adult of all sizes expands to fit larger animals.

    This-End-Up Halter
    If you are just learning to train camelids, try this black halter with a color coded upper noseband that will help you orient the halter in your hand.  It’s also pretty snappy looking!

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  • Llama Halter (Second Chance-buckles on animal's right side)

    Llama Halter (Second Chance-buckles on animal’s right side)

    $25.00

    As an additional training option we offer the Second Chance Halter: This halter buckles on the llama’s right side and allows you to have a second chance to correct previously learned escape and evasion behaviors. Typically llamas are haltered from the left. If you have an animal that is difficult to halter, he or she may have developed responses to being caught and haltered from the left side. It often helps to retrain these animals from the right using the principles of CAMELIDynamics.  Click here for detailed fitting instructions.

    “I really like the Second Chance halters.  I use them for showing because the bottom buckle doesn’t tend to get caught on the ring as much as it does with the regular halters when leading from the left as is expected in the show ring.  I actually like to train my animals to lead from left or right equally well.  It stimulates them to use both sides of their brains.  Ditto being haltered from either side.”

    Dr. Ruthanne McCaslin

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  • Size Matters! Full Set of FIVE Alpaca Halters

    Size Matters! Full Set of FIVE Alpaca Halters

    $125.00

    Size Matters!

    Especially when it comes to alpaca halters! Get a full set of Zephyr halters one in each size with special color coordinated nose bands to make telling which size a snap- at the same time you can also tell which end is up! All Zephyr halters are colored by label sewn inside the halter with 

    • XS = purple
    •  S = blue
    •  M = red
    • L= green
    • XL= Brown

    Now we have matched the top part of the nose band to the label so that you can immediately tell what size you are picking up. With this set of halters we guarantee that you can properly fit any alpaca (3 months or older). Please note that Zephyr halters are proportioned differently than many halters on the market. The halter noseband is designed to fit well back on the nose bone very close to the eye. Click here for detailed fitting instructions.

     

  • Size Matters! Full set of FOUR color coded llama halters

    Size Matters! Full set of FOUR color coded llama halters

    $100.00

    Size Matters!

    Especially when it comes to llama halters! With a set of 4 size matters halters you will always have a halter that fits. Get a full set of Zephyr halters one in each size with special color coordinated nose bands to make telling which size a snap- at the same time you can also tell which end is up! (XL is not pictured) All Zephyr halters are colored by label sewn inside the halter with:

    •  S = blue 
    • M = red
    • L = green
    • XL = Brown

    Now we have matched the top part of the nose band to the label so that you can immediately tell what size you are picking up. With this set of halters we guarantee that you can properly fit any llama (4 months or older). Please note that Zephyr halters are proportioned differently than many halters on the market. The halter noseband is designed to fit well back on the nose bone very close to the eye. Click here for detailed fitting instructions.