Alpacas

Here she is, our first cria of the year, out of mom Muse and Stargazer's Antares.I went down to the barn this morning to water the animals, and all the alpacas were standing in a circle and looking down...never a good sign. There was Muse, on the ground in the...

  "So, who wants to have sex?" I said to our alpaca girls as I walked in to their pen with MacTavish on a lead. "Me, me, me, pick me!" cried Willow with her tail in the air, a sure sign that she was ready...little hussy. This was going to be Mac's first time.  He...

One of our Bourbon Red hens, Mango, has been sitting on a clutch of 14 eggs for 4 weeks.  I had thought that she had stopped laying as I hadn't found any of her eggs for a while, and then one day, quite unexpectedly, I came upon her stash in one of our lilac...