Big Rock Alpaca Farm

  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.

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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. 

Now we need to come up with another cria name.

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  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. 

Here’s a more recent head shot.

And a full body profile shot:

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  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.

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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.

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.

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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.

And later in the day.

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

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