Alpaca Update
June 6th 2009 01:28
Been away for a while, but I noticed that Alpaca Notes hasn't disappeared off the radar, so I thought I'd drop in with an update.
We lost our lovely Daizi. Not sure what happened, just went out one morning and found her lying dead in the paddock. Very sad, as she was an alpaca I really liked, I could cuddle her and she'd come up and cluck at me like she clucked at her crias.
She had a young cria at the time, who we had to wean early. Thankfully, the bub was starting to graze for herself so we didn't need to bottle feed her.
On a brighter note, things have rolled on and we have new babies quickly growing up. I need to take some new photos of them, but we've had pouring rain here for almost a week and let's face it, pacas don't look so good when they're sopping wet.
Anyway, this is Peter Pan. born on 11 January 09. He's a lovely light fawn colour and is a nice natured boy.
Here's Montezuma (Monty). His mum, Alice keeps having crias this wonderful caramel colour, and they're all beautiful, inquisitive alpacas, just like her.
Little Wendy is a petite girl like her mum. Her mum went very weak in the back legs during the last few months of her pregnancy and we were very concerned about her. Had heaps of tests done, but the vet couldn't find any problem, so we just put it down to the cria pressing on nerves or something. Wendy's a very cute little paca.
Hannah is Maralyn's latest cria. She's the funniest little thing. She was very unafraid of humans and would march right up to people to check them out. You could pat and cuddle her and she enjoyed it. This isn't a good trait in a prey animal as babies like this make an easy meal for any predator who wants to grab them, so we don't encourage this behaviour.
She's becoming less precocious now as she's growing up and learning the alpaca way from her mum and the other alpacas.
Hannah is still a very bright and personable alpaca though, which is wonderful.
We lost our lovely Daizi. Not sure what happened, just went out one morning and found her lying dead in the paddock. Very sad, as she was an alpaca I really liked, I could cuddle her and she'd come up and cluck at me like she clucked at her crias.
She had a young cria at the time, who we had to wean early. Thankfully, the bub was starting to graze for herself so we didn't need to bottle feed her.
On a brighter note, things have rolled on and we have new babies quickly growing up. I need to take some new photos of them, but we've had pouring rain here for almost a week and let's face it, pacas don't look so good when they're sopping wet.
Anyway, this is Peter Pan. born on 11 January 09. He's a lovely light fawn colour and is a nice natured boy.
Peter Pan
Here's Montezuma (Monty). His mum, Alice keeps having crias this wonderful caramel colour, and they're all beautiful, inquisitive alpacas, just like her.
Montezuma (Monty)
Little Wendy is a petite girl like her mum. Her mum went very weak in the back legs during the last few months of her pregnancy and we were very concerned about her. Had heaps of tests done, but the vet couldn't find any problem, so we just put it down to the cria pressing on nerves or something. Wendy's a very cute little paca.
Wendy
Hannah is Maralyn's latest cria. She's the funniest little thing. She was very unafraid of humans and would march right up to people to check them out. You could pat and cuddle her and she enjoyed it. This isn't a good trait in a prey animal as babies like this make an easy meal for any predator who wants to grab them, so we don't encourage this behaviour.
She's becoming less precocious now as she's growing up and learning the alpaca way from her mum and the other alpacas.
Hannah is still a very bright and personable alpaca though, which is wonderful.
Hannah
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