With 12+ crias on the ground here, Jen and Kim have been starting to shear some little ones over the past several days. I know breeders have different ideas about when and how to shear their crias and for us it’s all really just based upon what we’ve experienced. Namely that by waiting until a…
I was tickled the other day when a friend of ours, Sue Monat of Happy Hearts Alpaca Farm, sent me a photo of a newborn female cria. The little girl in question had just been delivered by Saline, the SuperNova daughter they had bought from us a couple of years back the last time the…
So after a week of some pretty intense birth/death/birth/death/birth pendulum swings we were thrilled when one of our foundation females just had a good old run of the mill delivery. No drama, no intrigue. Just a normal, healthy, and pretty interesting looking King of Ladies boy. Hurrah for boring. Not that we were allowed to get…
There has been a shift in the daily schedule here necessitated by the time of year. Specifically there are females that are now 10.5 months removed from the date on which they were bred. Though the average gestation here has historically gone some 11 months and 10 days or so we have learned the hard…
In the continuing quest to bring sanity to the 2011 birthing season Mssrs Precocious and Elite Legend will be very busy boys over the next week or so. By my calculations there are 8 females left to be bred of our own (5 or 6 of which are ready now being already 21+ days post-partum)….
Nothing gets judged quite as harshly on this farm as a white male alpaca. From the moment one of those little guys is born they are subjected to incredible scrutiny, far far more so than their female counterparts. Remember that the goal is to look at one of these guys and say “yeah, give me…
