Traffic Stopping Colorful New Cria
This precious little cria is the first one born to my friend, Dawn. (Dawn and I met through the blogosphere. You can check out her blogs at Kaiser Mommy and Room 704). Dawn is currently boarding her alpaca herd with us, and we are so excited for her and her family that their first cria is here. The fact that it’s a girl and that she’s got some of the coolest color markings we’ve seen is a nice holiday bonus.
Here she’s just lounging, but it gives you another view of this interesting color pattern that she is carrying. I’ve never seen one where it looked like there was a straight line of color change in the middle of their back (top). Plus she has the whitest legs with dark spots on them and some white spots in the blanket. Outstanding. I could watch her for hours!
Here she is with her sweet momma, Montreal and her little coat to keep the chill away. Baby’s back half of her blanket is the color of her dam’s. Her sire is SCA Peruvian Shawnee. For those of us breeders who are into color genetics, I’m thinking that her sire contributed both a white spotting AND a dark spotting gene to this little princess. (and he will probably do it again which will bring us more wild color possibilities in the future.)
Congratulations again Dawn! Can’t wait to watch her grow.
UPDATE: Dawn’s naming her Josie!
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:49 pm
I love my little Josephine!
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:55 pm
What a beautiful little girl! Congratulations. And how cute is her first little jacket? DARLING!
November 22nd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
What a great choice. That is one of my favorite names. When I was a child we knew a seamstress named that. I loved going to her house.
I considered this name for my girls (human) and was vetoed so I will love having a lil Josephine around!
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November 22nd, 2009 at 10:37 pm
What a little cutie, and what interesting color patterning.
November 22nd, 2009 at 10:55 pm
so adorable! You make me want to get Alpacas
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November 22nd, 2009 at 11:43 pm
oh I love the patterns!!!!!!!1 This one is awesome!!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:18 am
sweet josie!
i want to snuggle her.
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November 23rd, 2009 at 9:01 am
How beautiful!!
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November 23rd, 2009 at 10:55 am
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a color pattern like that. Congrats to Dawn and Josephine–and you.
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November 23rd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
How adorable!! What a wonderful life living around such living cute-ness!!
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November 23rd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Katy! OMG she is stunning and precious too. Now there is some fiber I’d love to get my hands on.
MaLinda
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November 23rd, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Definately the most unique alpaca I’ve seen. Too cute.
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November 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Oh my goodness !!! How odd and beautiful !