Our newest herdsire and white male Color Champion, Snowshoe Aristides, has settled his first females! We had two positive ultrasounds last week and have at least a couple more females that have been bred and are continuing to spit. For those of you who are not familiar with breeding alpacas, “spitting” means the female has been bred and is rejecting any additional breeding because she is pregnant – at least that’s how it works in theory. Our vet can perform an ultrasound at about 21 days to confirm a pregnancy. So we hope to have a few more confirmed in the next couple weeks!
We sold out Aristides’ breedings for 2010, so are thrilled that he’s doing his job!