On 16th June, Leonora gave birth to a beautiful female cria. It was a text book birth, but the cria – Livia – has never shown the remotest interest in trying to feed from her Mum – until today!!!!! I had actually given up hope on her feeding from her Mum and I don’t give up on things too easily. I am notoriously stubborn – in the best possible way of course! – although Mike might disagree slightly with this last statement!
However, Mike phoned me this afternoon whilst I was down in
Corbridge – this being our changeover day at our holiday cottage. “Good news”, Mike said. So I presumed that Isadora had given birth to
a healthy, female cria. But no – even better
news than that. In fact, quite
positively ground breaking news. Livia,
at 2 days short of being 3 weeks old, has finally decided that milk comes from
her Mum’s teats! Amazing, amazing,
amazing!!!!! No – I haven’t any
photos. It has been a long day and I
wish to watch the tennis. I’ll keep you
all posted!
Amazing indeed! What a relief for you! My little "Bling" has found the milk bar, only to find that it's empty! So bottle feeding for me .... hopefully Bonitas milk will come in soon?
ReplyDeletePhew...bottle feeding is not quite the fun it is made out to be. We are also bottle feeding!
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