Smell the testosterone!
Posted in alpacas on 01/13/2008 08:00 am by StephenIs it in the air? Is it in the water? Or maybe it is some cosmic rays from space. Whatever. We have Man-Power here on the farm. We produce boys like nobody else I know.
On Wednesday Bonus, one of the alpaca we are “mommy-sitting”, dropped a lovely little black Suri boy named Austin. Isn’t he cute!
What does that make our record? Year One: 2 boys Year Two: 3 boys (+2 more boys that died), 3 girls Year Three: 4 boys, +2 more boys from Angela’s girls we were watching (Bonus and Fabrege) That gives us a record of 11-3, or 13-3 if we count the visiting girls too.
The ratio keeps getting more and more comically bad, until Saturday morning, when we went out to get the girls for matings and spit-offs. My brain paused for a moment, wondering why Alphyn was so wet and wobbly… well, maybe because it wasn’t Alphyn but rather Safforn’s new cria!
And a girl! Our first girl of the season! Yay! No name for her yet, we want to see if she has any quirks or traits that lend themself to a name.