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This Years Crias
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Lovely Linda’s Cria
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The first cria born and and bred at Fernhill was born this morning. Lovely Linda and the rest of the herd are doing a great job looking after him.
Shearing Time
Everyone got shorn to-day! I got everyone, except for the babies, haltered up ahead of time for once. What an amazing experience. Shun kept us all in order with Helen’s help and between Simon, Robyn and myself we had a very smooth operations team. They were all pretty good, very different the way they handled the experience – I think it must tickle. We even got Ambrose and White Knight shorn. They all have different haircuts and differing styles of gorgeousness. I thought it would be so much harder and take far longer, 2 hours all up including coffee!
The Snip!
Ambrose and White Knight were both castrated. I thought it would be a traumatic experience for us all. However with careful instructions from wonderful vet, Monique, and experienced help from Robyn it was fine. Both boys were calm and relaxed and didn’t seem to feel any pain. Afterwards they wandered back up the hill with the rest of the herd.
In the meantime Spangles decided that Lovely Linda was looking (smelling?) very attractive and she obviously thought he was alright too so we had another mating.
A Llama Christmas!
Star Spangled Banner.This time he was firmly rejected by both Emma and Lovely Linda but Sensation was keen and, after lunch, they had a lovely mating and much enthusiasm from all the others.
First mating at Fernhill
Robyn arrived with Star Spangled Banner (who I’ve affectionately nicknamed ‘Spangles’). He is the most gorgeous dashing and friendly guy – who could resist him. Everyone looked keen. I had halters on Emma and Naomi but Naomi was definitely the one. He clearly chose her and she chose him, everyone joined in and a good time was had by all!
New Cria for Miracle's Joy
An unexpected and delightful surprise, Miracle’s Joy has produced a beautiful cria boy. We are calling him Mystery. The rest of the herd are all proud co-parents and he is a big strong boy with straight legs and curvy ears – just perfect.
Carding Llama Fibre
Diane says that Don Peel does a great job carding llama fibre….
His contact details are:
Don Peel
Raes Junction
RD Dunedin
Ph 03 4468 561
Shop: 03 4468459
NZLA AGM 2009
We have set up a blog for the NZ Llama Association AGM.
There will be updates and information as it comes to hand. Photos and links to the exciting stuff that happens over the weekend will be put up on the blog as they happen. So if you can’t be here with us, come by and have a look after the AGM weekend has started.
Photos
I have put some Llama photos up on PicasaWeb. PicasaWeb is a part of the Google empire and works pretty well on the whole. It has face recognition software, which is a really cool way of labeling photos – according to who is in the photo. I wonder if it will recognise llamas?