Our Second 2009 Cria!
Rose had her cria on Monday, 9/21/09.? A very pretty multi boy.? He has been putting on weight nicely.
Rose's 2009 multi cria
Rose's 2009 multi cria
Rose had her cria on Monday, 9/21/09.? A very pretty multi boy.? He has been putting on weight nicely.
Rose's 2009 multi cria
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
I’ve been meaning to post this introduction since soon after MAPACA as that’s when we purchased him.? Currently we’re only breeding suris but there are some huacayas that you just love to look at, and Silver Ray is one of them.? He actually took fouth in a class of ten at MAPACA so others think he’s a nice boy too.? His personality seems to lend itself more to the obstacles than Gaston’s does, so we’re planning to have the boys work with him and they can do the obstacles with him next show season.
Hillside's Silver Ray
His fiber is so soft and fluffy that Kelly is really looking forward to getting to spin with it.? And of course his grey color is a great benefit.? Who knows, if he does good at the shows next year maybe we’ll have to get some huacaya females to use for breeding.
Cimarron and Rose
We’ve finally made a decision on the name for the cria.? The suggestion came from J.R. of East Berlin for ‘Cimarron’.? The full registered name that we will be using will most likely be ‘Rose’s Cimarron ROX’.? Some other favorites were ‘Sir Tobias’ and ‘Sabre’.
We would like to thank everyone that participated with their suggestions for the cria name, as well as everyone that came to visit during our open house, some people braved some really lousy weather.
Here is a list of all of the suggestions:
? We sure are glad Colonial Day wasn’t today.? Tropical storm Hanna has been dumping rain on the farm for most of the day, which would make for nasty weather had we been setup at Colonial Day.
? We did put Snowfox & Rose with their crias into a new pasture last evening before the rains came.? We want to give the pasture close to the barn an opportunity to regrow a little before winter sets in.
Gaston is enjoying having another cria around to play with, but the new cria isn’t too sure yet.
He is getting a little more confident, but Gaston still out weighs him by 30 pounds.
We’ve finally come up with a name for our latest edition.? We’re calling him Gaston, as in the vain character in ‘Beauty and the Beast’, and we think he has plenty of reasons to be vain.? At only two months of age he already weights almost 50lbs and quite enjoys torment his mother, Snowfox and Rose who is due at the end of August.??We actually got several good suggestions on names, several from John Petersam of Criative Acres Alpacas,?which we may well use in the future but none of them quite fit Gaston.
Sir Gaston ROX
Here’s a more recent head shot.
And a full body profile shot:
? We have still not been able to come up with a good name for the cria.? Take a look at the pictures and if you have a suggestion leave a comment.? We sure could use some good ideas.? No promises that we’ll use it though.? After we select a name we’ll proceed with getting him registered with ARI.
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.
The baby is often more playful than mom.? Isn’t that always the case?? The kids always have more energy than mom and dad.
And after playtime comes meal time.
? 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.
And later in the day.
We are looking forward to a lot of opportunities to see him running the pasture this summer.
