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PAOBA Breeders Showcase 2011 Results

Allen — Wed, 25 May 2011 02:18:16 +0000

We were pleasantly surprised by Peekaboo at the 2011 PAOBA Breeders Showcase.

Peekaboo at PAOBA Breeders Showcase

She took first in her juvenile multi female class. We couldn’t believe it. And we weren’t even the only one in the class.

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Introducing Thunder Storm ROX

Allen — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:11:34 +0000

September 3, 2010 Thunder Storm ROX was born at 12:45 to Rose. There were some small complications and thankful Dr. Anne Parker from Compassion Animal Hospital was nearby and able to assist in the birth. Thunder’s shoulders were catching on Rose’s pelvis and he was having trouble coming out. He weighed 16 pounds, which is a nice sized cria, especially for Rose as she’s smaller female.

The interesting things was Snowfox was the one we were watching for giving birth. She was bred two weeks earlier than Rose so we should have another cria shortly.

Here are some pictures from Thunder’s first day:

Picture of Jake with Thunder Storm and Rose

Josh Swinging Thunder to get fluid out of lungs

Thunder Starting to get up

Thunder trying to figure out where the milk is

Picture of dark suri alpaca

Belle meeting the newest member of the herd

Our first 2009 Cria – It’s a GIRL!!!!

Allen — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:16:41 +0000

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

Another new arrival

Allen — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:22:49 +0000

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.

More cria pictures

Allen — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:33:08 +0000

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

Lady Snowfox ROX finally has her cria

Allen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:22:23 +0000

? 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.