New Friends for Sherrie

Sherrie is our lone Merino ewe.

At the moment she is keeping company with a very handsome young Dorset ram, but he'll be going home (down the road) again soon, and then she's back to being on her own.... with 30 or so llamas and alpacas!!

But in a few months she'll have some company, when Milly, Molly and Mandy are big enough to be out in the paddock on their own.  They are second cross Dorset ewes.  The lady I got them from has 60 bottle babies at the moment!!  She makes me look quite sane really ;-P  She is looking for more people to help her out... by taking some babies with them when they leave - 3 is plenty for me to look after!!

Milly (Right, age 4 weeks), Molly (Centre, age 3 weeks) and Mandy (Left, age 2 weeks)

Very hard to get them to stand still for photos!!  They just keep walking towards me in case I have a bottle!

Milly (L) and Molly (R)

Australian Alpaca Week

Its on again, and once again we are having Open Days :)  Hope you can join us!

Wedding Anniversary

Yesterday, Eddy and I, celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary.  Eddy arrived home from Canberra on Friday laden with gorgeous roses :)

That evening, while unloading the week's groceries from the car we found this huge moth... unhappily it didn't last long, once Kiki saw it :(

Wintery Sunday with Scarlett and the Brat Pack at Home

The weather in Canberra yesterday was bleak, so Scarlett was well rugged up for a trip to Gold Creek, where we enjoyed lunch at Injoy Cafe.  She was Daddy's girl, and waited quite patiently for her 'kids meal' of bacon and egg with a chocolate milk shake.... which she had a great time with... until she finished... then she cleared the deck and sent all the food onto the floor for the sparrows to clean up!!

There are 11 crias in the home paddock, and they are quite the Brat Pack now... getting them into a yard is tricky!  They rush in one end and out the other like greased lightning.

Chiara is often the instigator of 'break outs'.  She is also always trying to sneak a feed from any unsuspecting mother she finds!

Jemima, after a rough start in life, she is now full of the joy of it, loves running and pig rooting and is always up for a game.

Jemima's partner in crime is Rosamund, they are as thick as thieves!

Ody is now so much bigger than all the other crias that he just trots along in order not to overtake everyone!

He is coming along very well at his halter training, though today's session will be cancelled because of the weather, cuddling wet llamas is no fun!!

I taped Petit Choux' flippy out ear for 9 days and it appears to have been successful.  Tape has been off for 5 days now and its holding its shape well.

Wolfgang is 6 days old today and has started to join in the running games, rather than being the one being chased.  The weather has turned very cold, very quicky and I have him rugged today... much to Wia's disapproval!!

Orchid has decided that I am so slow handing out the food, that she'll just help herself!

Museli?  What museli?  I'm not eating anything!!

Last Cria for the Season

Today we welcomed our last cria for the 2014/2015 season with the arrival of Wia's son Wolfgang.  He is dark grey, and is very unusual in that he has 2 blue eyes.  Have never heard of blue eyes on a non-white before, and will wait to see if he is deaf.  He is already very popular with the other members of the paddock, particularly Chiara who can't seem to leave him alone!!

Sunday Scarlett and New Suit

Another happy visit with Scarlett, who is growing fast.  This week we took her to the shopping centre on her bike!!  She likes it a lot better than the pusher... not as easy for Gargie to steer, but she stays on it longer, so less carrying... and that's good!  After being very patient while Freya and I tried on clothes, we took Scarlett for a messy but delicious lunch at Grill'd, then we headed home for some play time.

Eddy headed off to Canberra this week looking very dapper in his new suit.  Never far from his side is 'my' dog, Ruby!!

Sunset at Mt Tanga

The sunset this evening was absolutely stunning:

Took this photo while holding Tibb's bottle with one hand and the camera with the other... several 'shaky' shots, but this one worked OK.

Two Visits with Scarlett and Oh Pedro!!

No posts for a little while and I've been to visit Scarlett twice!!  The first visit was March 29:

And the next one on April 4 - Easter Saturday, when I was able to deliver her birthday parcel from her great grandmother:

Apparently what was written on the card was hilarious!!

On Monday, March 30, Misty ended all the speculation about is she pregnant or isn't she by delivering a very pretty female cria.  Every autumn the fences that have entirely adequately held Pedro in his paddock fail to provide any obstacle at all to his wander lust (?) and he takes himself off, and has sex with whom ever he pleases!!  He does seem to choose the female I would least like him to mate with, the first time it was a smallish alpaca girl - and Cumberbatch was the result.  This time it was his daughter and Mehitabel is the result.  Once again we made repairs to the what we thought must be 'the low bit' of the fence and hopefully this will be the last of the unauthorised crias!!