Actually I think Momma’s gonna be naming this one
As a mom you have the most enlightening conversations with your children while driving in the car.
My twin girls and I were discussing the new baby alpaca that had been born that day as we were heading home from softball practice. At our house everyone always wants [...]
This little beauty was recently born to Sonyadore and our 5x Champion herdsire SCA Peruvian Shawnee. Congratulations to our friends and clients the Lees on the birth of this lovely little girl. Thanks to Cindy Labbie for sharing the photo.
This is a new weekly feature with a tidbit of wisdom picked up along the way after ten plus years breeding alpacas. A nugget of knowledge that you don’t have when you are new to alpacas, but years down the road seems like a pretty important piece of info worth sharing.
Not to Pick The Most [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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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