What a long time since I have posted,How time flies!
Last Thursday , Winter Snow had her cria. I had popped home ,and came back at 1230 to find a new addition. He was not yet on his feet, the placenta was out, and the others hadn't noticed the new arrival.
UP and strong, though with legs too long for his body! He was a little down on his pasterns , but that is improving. Weight 9.2 kg!
Thanks to Ray for the photos. Jacobi also had some other visitors - who were staying at Brompton Lakes. I have 3 alpacas in the field up there. I think they enjoyed there visit. BArbilla was very friendly and came up for strokes which was good!
Back to Jacobi.
LAst year , Snow took about 2 weeks to accept him. This time, things were a lot quicker ( thank goodness!). I had already got colostrum from a local cow farm ( next year I will try and source goats colostrum, but all the kids had already been born when I rang around). Snow kept moving away, not letting him near her back end , so he go the colostrum from a bottle instead. The next day I got the vet to come and check his blood - did serum proteins and the level showed the colostrum had done the trick.(Couldnt do camelid Ig G as he had had cows colostrum - but not sure if my vet can do the specific test)
Saturday morning and I went to give his bottle.Jacobi went straight to his mother, and she stood there making it really easy for him.Hurrah!
Congratulations...hope all continues to go well.
Posted by: Barbara | 02/07/2010 at 06:18 PM