Amiryck

Monday, 7 September 2009

Sad news

We are sad to report the loss of Ambroses premature black cria boy tonight.

We had a trip to Aberdeen this weekend for Richard's brothers wedding (which was a magnificent affair!!) and left all our animals in my parent's capable hands. We knew the cria, Dodder, was weak when we left but we put it down to being 17 days early. Over the weekend it became obvious he was not well and the vet was called in. Mum and dad did an amazing job caring for him and we were so pleased they were here since their vigilance meant that we actually had a stab at saving him. Unfortunately I don't think it was ever to be and despite several trips from the vet, treatments, help and advice from Tracey and Tim we lost the battle for him this evening.

On a more positive note Monique's cria is doing very well. I will hopefully get some photos to post on here shortly.

Friday, 4 September 2009

A Girl!

We are on a tight schedule today because we are off to a wedding in Aberdeen. Just to keep everyone posted we have had a massive, fawn girl from Monique.

Wednesday, 2 September 2009

A new arrival

Why are alpacas so unpredictable! We have one alpaca due a week ago, one this weekend and three on the 19th. Two of those due on the 19th had their cria early last year and one late. So....the one we thought would have hers the latest in the year had hers today - typical! 17 days early we have the appearance of another Jack boy, solid black this time.