First Class Exhibition

We've been really enjoying the good weather and so have all the animals.  The grass is growing but, unfortunately, so are the weeds so we may have to start topping again soon.

Si has been carrying on with halter training last years cria and they are all coping well with their halters although Piper and Condor seem happy when it is over and they can get back to playing together.

Here they are after halter practice yesterday before the mist came down.

Exhibition just showed total disdain when I tried to get a photo of her face.  She is so pretty with a look of her Sire Wellground Close Encounter, she is out of EP Cambridge Larralluh one of our Australian Elite Imports.  She will be mated to Ashdale Cooper when the weather is a bit warmer then that will be a bundle of great genetics in one package.

No blog is complete without a snap of Heaven posing.  She never gets fed up of having her photo taken.

I had a broken chicken that is now fixed.  She had a compacted crop so she was moved into the house and fed mashed banana with yoghurt.  We kept syringing oil down her throat and then massaging her crop until the food moved.  She was quite happy here but she is like a new bird now.

Si has been busy building another chicken shed today ready for the silkies.  They are at the half way stage of shedding their baby feathers so are looking really scruffy and we have a silkie that has gone broody so I have been sneaking pekin eggs under her as the incubators are full.

We have been getting more pictures of hens that have moved on to other homes.  It's great fun seeing their new homes.

We were going to be moving the alpacas back out of a night but as the forecast had threatened more freezing weather later this week we decided they could have a reprieve.  They love coming in around 5pm to their evening meal and fresh hay laid out for them.

It's the time of year when alpaca owners have muddy knees from crawling aroung checking for udders and then wondering if the females really are pregnant after all.  Is she pregnant or just fat?  Is that a cria moving or just gas?  All good fun though and exciting.