s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

Or should I call it mommy sitting? Or mommy watching?

Whatever I call it, we now have a new business. On Saturday another alpaca breeder from up the road dropped off two pregnant females, Bonus and Fabrege. They are due sometime in the next few weeks. She used to work from home, but recently changed jobs. She wants someone to watch them, to make sure they give birth okay. This is known as “agistment”, where we care for someone elses animals. As we have three girls of our own on birth-watch, it is no extra effort to keep and eye on two more.

In the next few weeks a truck should arrive with 6 more alpaca, 5 white females and a white male (Zeus). We will be watching them at birth time (March-April, again we have plenty of our own due that time), and caring for them for about a year.

It feels like we have suddenly passed a threshold of some kind. Agistment business has started, and I am getting consulting-calls from other alpaa owners in the region. Pretty cool.