We went to Sidmouth on Sunday to a fete at a Residential Care Home. They asked if we would take some alpacas along for the residents and visitors to see. It was a very low key affair but everyone was very friendly and enchanted with the alpacas.
When we returned home we found that Baptista had given birth early to a lovely little white FEMALE cria. She was trotting around and obviously there had been no problems, luckily. Her ears had been bent in a strange way in the womb so she looked more like a mini llama, but we have put some masking tape on them to encourage them to grow into the normal alpaca shaped ears and she looks quite pretty now.
We are about to wean the kids so are expecting a lot of noise tomorrow because they will not like being removed from their Mums. We are going to put them in the paddock nearest the house so that they cannot see the other goats. The young bucks will go to live with Drake (our stud buck) and a little castrated male kid from last year in their pen which is farther down the farm.
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