Alpaca Cria Races
Thanks to Carol Karsten of Hidden Hill Farm Alpacas for contributing this photo of her cria racing around the barnyard.
Participating in Wordless Wednesday.

October 27th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, Carol Karsten, cria, cria races, Hidden Hill Farm Alpacas, Wordless Wednesdays | Category: Alpacas, New Additions, Wordless Wednesdays | Comments (7)

Here she is! The little girl who brought up so many good genetic questions the other day on Twitter. The Murphy’s Law baby. The one I just knew was going to turn out this way.
You see, in the alpaca business, a blue-eyed white is not really the desired outcome. This white with blue eyes is [...]

October 18th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, Blakeny, blue-eyed white, blue-eyed white alpaca, cria, deafness, gamble, Murphy's Law, new baby, Providence Alpaca Farm, Roulette, Twitter, white spotting gene | Category: Alpacas, New Additions | Comments (11)

Each cria season I have some favorites. Occasionally I fall hard for one. Like George here, who was born on President’s Day. He makes me weak in the knees.
Happy Wordless Wednesday.

March 31st, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, alpaca cria, cria, cria season, George, President's Day, Wordless Wednesdays | Category: Alpacas, New Additions, The Daily Stuff, Wordless Wednesdays | Comments (19)

My husband, the Artist, loves animals. He loves the alpacas. He, himself, is so tenderhearted that he probably never would have chosen a business that brought with it the inevitability of animals dying. We all feel sad when an alpaca passes away on the farm, but I’ve long suspected that the Artist takes it the [...]

February 11th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, alpaca farm, alpaca farming, Alpacas, cria, farm, farms, rain, sunshine | Category: Alpacas, The Alpaca Lifestyle | Comments (10)

I’m totally in love with this little cria that was born to my friend Stephanie Mize of Gulf Breeze Alpacas. The cria was sired by one of our herdsires. Guess which one? (Looks just like his daddy) I could blog about this kid all week. And I will later. On the road today. But I [...]

January 27th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, cria, Wordless Wednesdays | Category: Alpacas, Magnum, New Additions, Uncategorized | Comments (11)

Ultra’s cria
Ultra had her first cria on Tuesday. With first time moms – you’re never quite sure what you are going to get. Most take to mothering well, some need a little more time to figure out what is expected of them. Ultra did a great job. She loved her cria from the beginning, and [...]

January 21st, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, cria, Kaiser Mommy, new addition, Ultra | Category: Alpacas, New Additions | Comments (4)

When alpaca cria (babies) are born on cold, grey days we usually use a blow-dryer to get them warm, toasty, and dry: ready for the world. Most of their moms are startled at first, but they usually decide it’s okay for me to blow-dry their cria.
Not Ultra. (see above green spit)
Participating in Wordless Wednesday.

January 20th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, blow-dryer, blow-drying alpaca cria, cria, Ultra | Category: Alpacas, Handling/Training, Husbandry, Wordless Wednesdays | Comments (9)

The story of our new alpaca baby, Phoenix, was so popular yesterday that I thought I’d share some more pictures of his first day.
Phoenix’s dam is not so sure…
My little girl knows to be wary. Alpaca dams may spit, but Tapioka just sniffed her.
He’s looking for his “noonie” (as we call it). But…those are her [...]

December 23rd, 2009 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, cria, Phoenix, Wordless Wednesdays | Category: Alpacas, New Additions, Wordless Wednesdays | Comments (12)

It started out a glorious morning. My beloved herdsire Magnum was coming home from a long breeding engagement in Colorado. Another of our herdsires, Firecracker, was on trailer as well. IN addition there were three other alpacas who belonged to me but that I had never seen in person – Guardian Angel (our Archangel daughter) [...]

December 20th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, Alpacas In the Forest, blow drying, cria, dam, dam and cria, herdsire, Magnum, Phoenix, SCA Peruvian Magnum, warming up cria | Category: Alpacas, New Additions, The Alpaca Lifestyle | Comments (37)