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elevan said:
:smack to the previous owner of those llamas!
I seriously love that smiley, it is by far my favorite but so rarely get to use it. It makes me laugh everytime I see it.
Patches will be drying out soon so we will be cutting back on milking.
 

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Lost one of our Pilgrim Geese a ten year old female. I posted it on BYC but forgot to do it here. Lost a few of our new chick's last and may loose more thanks to a brief power outage. Not a huge deal but unfortunate.
Little windy today with intermitant rain. OH yeah though you ladies might like to know of a new cria on the property, lol. So just a normal day. ;)
 

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Soooo she had her baby already???? Boy or girl, come on you must spill the details! Was it an easy birth??? Cuteness factor???
 

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daisychick said:
Soooo she had her baby already???? Boy or girl, come on you must spill the details! Was it an easy birth??? Cuteness factor???
;) :lol: Why whatever do you mean? :p A little girl, spot on image of her mother a nice dark brown. She was ugly at birth with all that goo on her but I think that about all my animals when their first born, lol. Once dried off she was lovely. The birth I missed mostly but I checked on her at about 5 am and I saw the cria halfway out so I ran to get towels and lead rope. I dried her off and picked her up with mom in toe and took them to the shelter and closed it off and put on the heater I had set up just in case. She stood up within a half hour of birth and suckled soon afterwards. I gave the mom some Oats and then left them alone.
 

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Glad you are aborting the 1 year old. Llamas should be at minimum 2 years old before being bred and I mean just start the breeding process to give birth at about 3 years old. I think llama breeders even wait until they are 3 years old to breed. Alpacas can be bred earlier than llamas.
 

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Congrats on the new baby girl! If you are going to name the mom Clove then I am putting out the name of Spice for the girl. :p You sure had the vet come out in the nick of time, one more day and you would of been a little surprised with a baby. :D
 

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ksalvagno said:
Glad you are aborting the 1 year old. Llamas should be at minimum 2 years old before being bred and I mean just start the breeding process to give birth at about 3 years old. I think llama breeders even wait until they are 3 years old to breed. Alpacas can be bred earlier than llamas.
Yes, Oats for Clove the mother. The Cria was suckling when I left them at roughly 6am ish.
My wife has been logging on and reading you ladies and few men's posts. I might have to change my password, lol.
 

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Well just checked on Clove and the Cria and the little one is sleeping along with mom, all good.
 
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