Some parts of each year are just like this. We of course try to be as proactive as possible about things both in our family life as well as with stuff pertaining to the animals in the herd (as if that were really separate) but ultimately there come moments — and suspiciously they seem to…
So the bad news with Boheme is that it is now clear that she and her cria will never truly bond in the conventional sense. This is for at least two reasons. First and foremost the trauma of the operation which allowed her daughter, Musette, to come into this world was apparently simply too much. The…
As of 2011 we had gone some 14 years without having to do a cesarean birth here. We were probably a little too proud of that in fact and let’s face it: we all know what that inevitably leads to. Our beloved former show female, Seraphim, developed such a bad uterine torsion at full term…
We had a pretty neat experience late this afternoon. 5P Cangalli, who is now our reigning herd elder, delivered what will be her final cria ever at the age of 17. While there is nothing terribly remarkable about an alpaca her age still being fertile and capable of carrying a pregnancy to full term, what…
Jen and Kim spent a good chunk of the weekend shifting everyone around up at the Arena after the latest round of herd health, our final one before shearing next month. As the vast majority of the 2011 crias are now weaned at this point, the nutritional needs of our adult female herd have really…
With our kids’ Thursday afternoon ski program scheduled to start up this week, what could have been a rather scattered day filled with multiple commutes in two different directions, instead got fairly straightforward when Mother Nature intervened and gave us our first snow day of 2012. There I was, shortly after 6AM, refreshing the school…
