It's a cria!

It has been a bit of a trying week here.  It’s probably been the warmest week of the year and yet our central heating was coming on when it was supposed to be off and then the house electrics went down completely!  It took a while to sort out all of these problems but fortunately things have settled down on the domestic front! 

 

 

No matter how many things are sent to try us, there is nothing more likely to raise our spirits than another healthy new cria who was born this morning.  Maisie finally decided to give birth in the rain and had a lovely little fawn girl at 366 days gestation. I was beginning to think that she was going to wait until tomorrow morning before giving birth – just to add to my belief that my heathen alpacas will do everything they can to stop us from going to church on a Sunday.

 

 

 

 

Our grandson Archie was out inspecting the herd yesterday afternoon and was himself being inspected by Leonora and Livia, who is still not feeding from her Mum.  It’s quite remarkable – Leonora has plenty of milk, Livia is really strong but she just won’t feed from Mum.  We are still working on the situation, but as she will be one week old tomorrow, I suspect we are rapidly running out of time for things to change dramatically.   

I couldn't resist including this great photo Mike took of Natalia.  It just sums up the little hooligan as she hardly stands still for a minute.

 

 

Isadora is the next one due – wouldn’t it be amazing if she had a female too.  Then it would be 4 – 0 to the girls!!