We've had a really busy few days again. Si has been doing more groundwork on his time off and on Saturday we attended a show with Carl and Sam from Westhill Alpacas. It was a really enjoyable day and Rosemary's knitwear was admired by a lot of people and we sold quite a few pieces along with balls of wool.
Exhibition copying her mum, Larraluh
The cria have now learnt to pronk properly and it is lovely to watch their dancing of an evening when they are supposed to be settling down for the night.
Today has been spent doing spit offs and another mating with Cooper, this time with Larraluh. Cooper took so long this time that I think that Larra was mentally decorating the paddock. Unfortunately, Halo went down next to the pen where the mating was taking place so it looks as though she is now open but it could just be her being hormonal. She was actually due to give birth next month and we were really looking forward to seeing what she would produce as it would have been her first cria. She still looks pregnant but that may well be wishful thinking on our part so we will just have to wait and see. All the girls that Cooper has mated with have spat off though and now that we have our own top quality stud working it isn't such a tragedy for the future years as it will be easy to just put him back to the female. Next year we are hoping that we have another stud male working with completely different bloodlines.
Its always nice to see the babies....pronking !...fantastic just watching them enjoying life and growing up !!...Jayne
ReplyDeleteExhibition looks a little cutie.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear the knitwear went well. It's a lovely feeling when people are admiring your hard work isn't it.
Lovely photo.
ReplyDeleteHope Halo is really about to produce!