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Another birth
Now this is more like it! This black male was born yesterday and was up and nursing within an hour or so. No worries! Today he’s running around the pastures. That’s his mother, Rosita, behind him. Over 20 crias to come this year!
Alpaca Color Champion
Snowshoe Aristides, our yearling male, won a blue ribbon and the White Male Color Championship at the Empire Alpaca Show in Syracuse over the weekend. Ari is an exceptional male with very fine, dense, crimpy fiber. And he’s a sweetie! Ari has two more shows ahead of him this fall. I’ll let you know how…
The Waiting Game
Alpacas, unlike many other livestock, have a fairly wide window for length of gestation. At Snowshoe Farm, we use 335 days from the last breeding to estimate each female’s “due date”. This gives us a heads up to start keeping a close eye out for a birth. The actual length of gestation can vary quite…
Alpaca Shearing
We sheared five of our “big boys” yesterday. They were warm when we sheared them, but the temps dropped last night and they were shivering this morning. That’s the way it always goes. It’s OK; we worry about them being too hot, but not about them being a bit chilly. They were warmed up by afternoon….
What Nemo?
While much of southern New England continues to dig out from the feet of snow dumped by the storm some have dubbed “Nemo”, it wasn’t a remarkable snow event up here. We received about a foot of very light snow and that gives us a total of only about a foot of snow on the…
After 11 years of raising alpacas, we finally have a bottle baby. And no – it’s not a good thing. Alpaca crias can become bottle babies for any number of reasons – mother’s lack of milk, loss of mother, etc. This happens to be an orphan. This cria, Phylicia, was just over a week old…