I love it when crias come out just the way that we had ordered them. Amongst other things, it helps to further promote the mythology that we know exactly what it is we are doing here! In this particular case, the baby in question was to be the 2nd born cria of our lovely rose grey…
Why we waited to do the 3rd round of weaning for the 2012 birth class until the coldest day yet in January was perhaps lost on all of us but oh, well. There were some monsters in this group too, with several of them near or over the 100 lb. mark. Of all the criticisms…
Musette, our little C-section baby that could, was weaned from her mom, Boheme, the other day. That was in point of fact, more the psychological weaning, as she had already more or less weaned herself some weeks earlier off of the hanging goat bottle which had been her primary food source since birth. Nonetheless, it…
Last week at this time there were still 5 of our females left to deliver their babies this year. While that would be all well and good in the early fall when nighttime temperatures don’t tend to drop much lower than the 40s, when there are crias due and there’s a hard frost on the…
It seems as though the time has just flown by lately. Between getting ready for the upcoming fall event season — which kicked off for us last weekend with Alpaca Farm Days but which starts in earnest next week in Syracuse, NY at the Empire show — and shuttling our kids to and from school…
It has been an interesting few days here at the farm. Monday dawned with the news that one of our skinny mommas in the Arena’s warm room, Awesome Blossom, was stumbling around and eating sand. Never the the greatest start to any week. Though we knew that she had lost a lot of body condition…
