Welcome Jemma!! –the first cria to be born on our farm! We prepared for months and months for this first birth, attending cria-care classes, medical lectures, neonatal classes, learned how to assist with difficult births, prepared field kits of appropriate equipment, etc, etc. So what did mom Jetta do? She waited until the one time when everyone was briefly away from the farm, and then she dropped the kid and went on grazing in the field with baby in tow (barely able to stand but sticking with momma!)
And then there came the latest additions to our farm. Becky and Jaime were sent off on a simple mission to deliver four water samples to the Holmes Laboratory in Millersburg, Ohio for Camelid drinking water analyses. They returned six hours later with these three “critters”! I think they are little dogs!They are brother and sisters and inseparable, so I guess we’ll have to keep them Any suggestions for names?
Needless to say, their arrival aroused a great deal of interest in our curious alpacas:
As well as the kittens –who may be somewhat horrified with their new roommates.
(But not our 10 year old tomcat Kiki. He’s just been around too long to let anything as trivial as three new dogs bother him!)
