Here she is. All 8 pounds of her. No, It’s not a necklace that she’s wearing, but a catheter, via Auburn’s Large Animal Veterinary Hospital where she spent a short time. But she’s home now and doing great.
Her mom didn’t know what to make of her at first, but now they are inseparable.
I bought her [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
This article reprinted with permission from author Ian Lutz of Cas-Cad Nac Farm Alpacas. It was originally published in the Autumn 2009 Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles.
If you birth out enough crias sooner or later you will run into a female [alpaca] who wants nothing to do with her newborn. Often times, though not always, these are [...]
Sunday morning we found this handsome little cria out in the field with his mom, Nevoso. He wasn’t due til the 18th of November, but he made his appearance ten days early.
He is so pink! This is the first cria for his sire, Horatio, who is a Magnum son. His dam, Nevoso, continues to produce [...]
Earlier this summer I came in from the barn and told everyone, “I just saw the sweetest thing that I have ever seen on this farm!”
“I saw the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen yesterday!” my husband Steve said.
We had both seen the same thing. Our macho herdsire, Magnum, kissing his daughter, Molly.
Magnum is the Mac [...]
Actually, you DO NOT WANT to imprint your cria to humans. He needs to imprint on his mom and realize that he is an alpaca. We did some imprinting by accident, and we have since fixed the problem. Here’s what happened.
I was going to the barn to prepare Merry’s evening bottle when I saw this [...]
We’ve been waiting for Honeybelle to have her cria, and today he finally arrived!
This was how I found Honeybelle this moring when I went out to do chores around 8am. She later had her cria around 11am. This is how alpaca dams look when they are in labor. Uncomfy. Sometimes when they are in labor [...]
Yesterday was a busy day on the farm. One cria’s arrival is enough to make us all stop, greet the new herd member, and then forget everything else we were supposed to do that day. Yesterday after picking up a sick child at school and Mexican food for lunch, I pulled into the driveway. As [...]
This is for my readers who are new to alpacas and have no idea what I’m talking about. Read this if you have no idea what an alpaca is.
The following are some terms that we use in the alpaca world that you may not be familiar with:
CRIA. A cria is a baby alpaca. From the [...]
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