Our first cria of the year is now over a week old and doing well, I am giving her two bottles a day which she takes easily. She now has a name after a lot of deliberation We try to use some of the sires name so as I can remember who the sire was, So as Golden Nugget is the sire it was decide it would be West Webburn Golden Ember.
An update on Marietta ........... she is no worse but not much better either, she is bright in herself, eating drinking but not able to get up by herself. We lift her several times a day and she can now stand for a few seconds on her own, very shaky legs but at least it is an improvement. Her blood tests suggested she was low in Selenium so we have given her a drench but it is difficult to know how much to give, Vet says the injection has now been withdraw. We don't want to give her to much as this can be bad as well, so if anyone has any experience of drenching with Cobalt, Selenium Drench please let us know.
We went to the Collabear Auction on Saturday, very interesting to see and get our hands on so many animals. Good to see so many other breeders there, also surprising to see the coloured animals fetching higher prices than most of the whites. We came away with a young brown female and a part share in a grey stud male, very striking looking animal with a fine, soft handling fleece for a older male. We especially wanted a grey male to use over a couple of females this year and Lakeham Alpacas also wanted the same so it made sense to try to buy a male between us.
We have had several enquires for boys over the last few days, why didn't we buy some whethers!
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