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 [...]
As a newbie to the alpaca business, I remember visiting a large farm when the owner’s walkie-talkie alerted her to say a new cria had been born. Excitement spread through the farm the way a human “wave” rolls through a stadium. That owner told me, “Everything always stops when a cria is born.”
And sure enough. [...]
Sista Quita
The other evening I was walking out to move the alpacas out into their pastures, (these days it is too hot for the alpacas to be in the fields during the day so we pasture them at night) and I noticed Poquita was breathing very hard. I moved another group of animals and kept [...]
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 [...]
And To the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay!
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We live on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay in Alabama. Mobile Bay consists of both salt water from the Gulf of Mexico and fresh water from rivers. Lots of seafood live in this estuary, and a fascinating phenomenon occurs here that is called a Jubilee.
Wikipedia describes a [...]
After a rough week with Beloved’s stillborn and losing weanling Ella, it was a wonderful surprise to find PHAR Lily’s new female cria, Merry, right outside the barn Christmas Eve morning. Merry Christmas, indeed! I am supplementing her with a bottle so Merry and I are becoming fast friends.
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