Bubbas, now and in the future

Casper and Nanook are growing up nicely, as is Missy Moo.  She is the youngest, but is nearly the tallest, though not the heaviest, but she's got the meanest temper and will not tolerate the boys trying to push her around!!  Casper is sweet and gentle like his mother, Nanook is larger and very curious, very people friendly like his mother.

Casper:

Nanook:

 Missy Moo in the background, her mother Myriah in the foreground.  Myriah's mother is a suri, and although Myriah is a huacaya her hairstyle and neck fleece have definite suri 'influences'!!

Up at the road paddock I keep talking myself in and out of Tiana Rose being pregnant, her friend Vynka is due the same day and is looking very nicely rotund, but some days I can talk myself out of Tiana being pregnant at all... time will tell.

Tiana Rose:

Vynka Lee:

Took these pics of Collette today in order to show you how much like Alba she looks, but unhappily my camera battery went flat before I got to the boys paddock!!

Collette's signature look is very much deer in the headlights!!

Also up at the road paddock and in the pink is Jemma, still very keen on her brekky being delivered on time and with a side of more brekky!!

Dont be fooled by Misty's soft as marshmallow looks, she's very much in charge of herself and anybody else who'll stand still.  She and Noisette have been teasing the boys mercilessly, getting these girls through to breeding age without boys jumping fences will be a difficult job!  And they are definitely working against me!!

Old friends The Jester and Noisette, before Yuri and Misty arrived they were inseparable, but now they are not so often together, still get along well though :)  Both dominated by their more forward pals Yuri and Misty.

 Yuri, on the 'for sale' list - please see www.maisonmauve.com.au (shortly) for details.  Colour?  Technically white, but more accurately 'also comes in white'!!  LOL!!  Needs his toenails trimmed, down for a pedicure on Sunday!!  Doing well in lead and halter class, nice fleece for home spinner.

The new blacks and halter training

I havent yet skited about the new black alpacas at Mt Tanga. One of them is Cushla, who is a real sweetie, and another is Black Pearl who is a 'slip of a thing' being one of those mothers who puts everything into raising her cria and consequently looks a bit thin come weaning time.

Cushla:

Black Pearl, cant wait for her to have a boy so I can call him Jack Sparrow!!  LOL!!

The wind was quite strong this morning, and Azzura looks a bit wind swept.  She's been getting quite a bit of exercise lately but you'd hardly guess it from her waist line.. shhhhh...

Trinket, this morning, also in windswept mode.  She is not as happy with the smaller herd size in the road paddock, she's a girl who loves a crowd.

Fresian and Black Narcissus are also in this group - mostly relinquishing mothers and pregnant females not due until April or so next year.  Both are doing well :)

After breakfast in the yards the girls head back out into the road paddock :)

 Freddie has the most amazing eyelashes and in this pic the most ill-fitting halter - fixed immediately after this shot.  He and the other weanlings have started halter training.  Freddie is starring!  Not fussed or bothered about the halter and enjoying cuddle time - hope he does as well when we add the lead rope.

His fleece is lovely, soft and very crimpy with good density - used my chart this morning to identify him as a dark fawn.