I realize I haven’t updated the blog for a while and I promise to get some new pictures up this weekend.
As you know, our last cria born on the farm was Leroy. Unfortunately, Leroy’s mom is a first time mom who just doesn’t have a clue as to how to be a mom. We tried our best to get the two of them working together – at first she was resistant to him nursing from her, then he was resisted to trying to nurse from her. In the end, we’ve been bottle feeding Leroy for the past couple of weeks. I don’t recommend this for a male alpaca or llama but we had no choice. We couldn’t get any of our other moms to take him under their wing either. It was kind of touch and go for a while, but now it seems that Leroy is going to be fine. He’s only around 19 lbs or so but he is strong and perky and doing great.
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