Big Rock Alpaca Farm

We finally had our first cria for the 2009 calendar year, we didn’t have any spring crias.? Born August 20th while we were on vacation everyone is doing fine.? She was 16.5 lbs on the day of her birth, dropped a pound the first day and gained it back by the second.? We were hoping for some color and got white, maybe light fawn if she darkens up some like Gaston did.? But ‘IT WAS A GIRL!’, take that any day over color.

Snowfox with new baby

Snowfox with new baby

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Rose finally had her cria.? A nice little boy.? He was actually larger than Gaston at birth.? He looks to be about a medium brown.?

Rose & Cria

Now we need to come up with another cria name.

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One of the first things we did after the cria was born was to get Snowfox shorn as soon as possible.? We would have liked to have done it Saturday morning, but when we learned it was to be near 100 degrees on Friday June 6, 2008 and still hot over the weekend, we wound up shearing Snowfox and Rose in the evenings.? They aren’t the best hand shearing jobs that we’ve done, but at least the fiber is off and the girls are much more comfortable.

Here are a couple more pictures of our newest arrival.? We love how dark his muzzle and feet are.

Cria head shot

The baby is often more playful than mom.? Isn’t that always the case?? The kids always have more energy than mom and dad.

Cria playing with Snowfox

And after playtime comes meal time.

Cria nursing from Snowfox

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? We just had another exciting day at Big Rock Alpaca farm, although not quite as much work as last Friday was.? Snowfox finally had her first cria.? It’s a little boy and he’s doing just fine.? We’re not quite sure what color he is, probably light fawn with really dark pigmentation.? His sire is black after all.? We have not decided on a name yet.

Here is Snowfox with the baby only a couple minutes old.

Snowfox with newborn

And later in the day.

Snowfox and baby

We are looking forward to a lot of opportunities to see him running the pasture this summer.

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