Royalla Country Fair

Yesterday Freya, Scarlett and I went to the Royalla Country Fair, mostly to see and help out a bit on the llama stand, but the best bit for Scarlett was a big ice-cream with sprinkles!!

Yoyo and Coco

The puppies get really excited when I start the prep for their meal, hard to get them to sit before its delivered, but no sit, no dinner!!

Baby Season in Full Swing

On Sunday I arrived home to a new dark brown female suri cria from Guinevere, we have been waiting forever for this baby!!  Very pleased with the outcome :)  Welcome Gardenia, only one pic because Guinevere is a very protective mother and this one pic cost me a big pasting of ikky green stuff!!  Dad is Panash.

Melody is a calmer, more trusting mother, her male cria was born this morning, pretty sure he's rose grey, but will wait a few weeks before registering him, his name is Iguana, but will be called Iggy at home :)   Dad is Kurralea Tutankahmen who is medium grey.

New Cria Today

Another new cria today, yipee its a girl.  A light fawn female for Maisy by Falstaff, a happy addition for our agistees, Zara Dain Alpacas :)  Farm volunteers Leona, Chrissy and Parker chose Minnie for her name and we're very happy Rob has decided to go with it!!  Little Minnie is a Maisy mini me!!

A Busy Morning

This morning the puppies raced around like mad things after breakfast and then fell in a heap!!  But not together, Yoyo curled up with Kiki and Coco went back to the crate for a nap.

Meanwhile out in the paddock Eugenie gave birth to a medium brown male cria and very shortly thereafter Narcissus dark brown male cria.  These are cria numbers 2 and 3 for Dad, Mandrake, and they are his second and third brown males!!

New, New, NEW!!

Just to make sure the level of crazy doesnt slip around here, today we've welcomed another new puppy into the household.  Today we collected Coco, Yoyo's sister!!  She will be with us for a few weeks before heading for her permanent home in Melbourne with Alan, Aleisha and Jakey Baby!!  She's a bit of a princess and bedtime tonight required 2 firm 2 finger taps and a gruff NO! to settle her.. much more effort than was required for Yoyo!!  Hopefully tomorrow will be easier!!  She and Yoyo have had an exhausting time this afternoon renewing their bonds and racing around the yard like lunatics!!  LOL!!  She is as cute as a button and will fit in here perfectly :)

We've also welcomed some new crias to the home paddock, a really tiny and darling little solid true black (STB) female, Elani for Nefertiti.  She is a real live wire and has no idea she's punching way above her weight!!  An STB female for Phoebe, Flora, who is the apple of her mother's eye, a dark brown boy, Fabian, for Chianti - a first cria for her and for father Mandrake.  A stunning little grey boy, Esiotrot, for Cushla (by Bracken) and they all are good running game friends for Daisy, who has been just dying for some friends to turn up!!

Azzura with Avocado baby, and a visiting Esiotrot.

Tiny little Elani who was only 5.13kg when born, but is a real live wire!!  Her mum Nefertiti is a smaller alpaca, but Elani is even smaller again, despite her dad, Ez, being one of our biggest stud males.  She is a delight :)

Dark brown boy, Fabian, a very pretty cria, bit of a challenge for first time mum Chianti, but she's figured it out now and thankfully he is a robust and foreward little cria.

Phoebe is nearly 4 and she's been desperate to be a mum, and finally its happened in the best possible way, little Flora is a stunning little STB sweetheart and Phoebe is as happy as can be!!

Cushla is battling a stomach ulcer, so we are very glad she's managed to carry this baby to term.  She has produced a gorgeous little medium grey boy, Esiotrot.  Cushla's treatment continues and she is doing well.

New Puppy!!

Yesterday we got a new puppy.  He is a Chug (50/50 Pug/Chihuahua), but he is a lot smaller in person than he appeared in the photos and it looks like the only pug characteristics he inferited are his colouring and his curly tail.  Not to worry he is as cute a button and Kiki loves him!

Today he is chillaxing on the couch with Parker.  Kiki has given up her favourite cushion for him :)