After a long deployment in Iraq, my sweetie, Jim Cocking, is finally home! Actually, he has been home a while. We’ve taken the last month to have a honeymoon. Kinda. As much as you can on a farm with a passel of kids and a herd of alpacas. So not much of one now that [...]
Have you ever had a teacher tell you that you were unprepared?
I was the definition of unprepared the morning of a very important farm visit recently. In fact, I didn’t even know he was coming until about 15 minutes until I was supposed to leave to go and pick him up at the airport, thanks [...]
How do we teach our children about sex? It’s one of the toughest issues we face as parents. And it’s one of the toughest things we have to come to grips with as children. I mean, do you remember how grossed out you were when you realized that your mom and dad did that to [...]
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 [...]
Breeding on the Farm
Participating in Wordless Wednesday
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) [...]
Yesterday a cria was born on our farm. (A cria is what you call a baby alpaca). It comes from the Spanish word for “creation”. This little bundle of joy belongs to our friends, the Bowens, whose farm is Humming Star Alpacas. A few of their alpacas are being boarded with us while their barn [...]
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 [...]
Today we are doing ultrasounds. On our farm the alpacas are hand-bred, meaning that we put a female and a male in a run together and they breed. We observe this and record the information. Two weeks later we repeat this process. Once the female is pregnant she will spit at the male when we [...]
We are so pleased to report that this stylish alpaca is bred to our super herdsire, SCA Peruvian Magnum, for a Spring 2009 cria. Chocolate Creme is from the herd at Tuscany Valley Alpacas, owned by our friend, Carol Grace. This beauty drove down on a Saturday for a date with Magnum, and returned home [...]
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