Misty's new cria arrived this morning...and it's another boy! We now have over 50% male alpacas at our farm. I don't know why we are having so few female crias over the last few years...Anyway, back to our new baby boy...he's a beautiful fawn colored suri and he's very healthy. This little guy was standing and trying to nurse from his mom within 20-30 minutes after he hit the ground!
As you see in the photo above, the new cria has the pink jacket on that Victor has been wearing for the past few weeks when it's cool outside. Our next larger size cria coat is green so Victor will get that one if he needs it. We washed the pink jacket this morning and then I rubbed the outside of the jacket all over the new cria before putting it on him. I wanted to make sure his mom was comfortable with the smell of the jacket before I put it on her new cria.
Both mom and cria are comfortably relaxing in their own private stall. It's cool and rainy outside today so I'll wait a day or so before letting Misty and her cria outside with the other alpacas.
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