So the bad news with Boheme is that it is now clear that she and her cria will never truly bond in the conventional sense. This is for at least two reasons. First and foremost the trauma of the operation which allowed her daughter, Musette, to come into this world was apparently simply too much. The…
As of 2011 we had gone some 14 years without having to do a cesarean birth here. We were probably a little too proud of that in fact and let’s face it: we all know what that inevitably leads to. Our beloved former show female, Seraphim, developed such a bad uterine torsion at full term…
We had a pretty neat experience late this afternoon. 5P Cangalli, who is now our reigning herd elder, delivered what will be her final cria ever at the age of 17. While there is nothing terribly remarkable about an alpaca her age still being fertile and capable of carrying a pregnancy to full term, what…
…doesn’t mean I’m not being followed. The picture at left was what happened when I went out into the weaner boy feed group this afternoon with my trusty camera in hopes of actually getting some pictures. Silly me. Curiously enough, their female counterparts were conversely rather sassy with me and struck a resulting pose or…
That would be the show itch. I’m sure that after we get home from the Futurity in a few weeks time I’ll be over it of course but for now it just feels like opening day of the baseball season: all things are possible and we’re eager to hit the road with the animals again…
For whatever reason yesterday felt as though it could have been the first day of spring as opposed to another overly-mild day of a long winter run amuck. The sun was out, it was in the mid 50s, and the roads were even finally starting to dry up, at least here on the farm itself….
