Happy Birthday!

On a non-alpaca note - yesterday was my daughter's 19th birthday.  Happy Birthday dear daughter!

On an alpaca note - today Chupa is one month old.  Mark sent me pictures of newborn Chupa.  Also in the picture is Cadbury on the left, and Chupa's dad on the right.

Bringing our Alpaca girls home was postponed by a day.  The fencing just took longer than we expected.  Peter's patient load increased and he was gone for large chunks of the day and there is just so much I can do on my own  (like almost nothing!).

The good news is we finally got them home last night. Here is Cadbury peering out of the trailer telling us to get a move on.  Our departure from her previous home was postponed because a slightly rattled gentleman headed up the narrow driveway, saw us preparing to head down, started backing back down and went off the road into a small creek.  He managed to get his car thoroughly stuck AND block our exit.  We, okay, PETER, helped him get his car unstuck and back on the road while I stood around looking like ornamental fluff.

Once we got them home getting them out to the pasture was quite challenging.  Chupa was not used to a halter.  In fact before yesterday she had never worn one.  She resisted being led anywhere.  Cadbury saw a very unhappy offspring and dug her heals in and refused to go anywhere.  It seems, much like mules or donkeys, when Alpacas don't wanna go - you're not going to make them.  Eventually Peter just picked Chupa up and carried her.  Cadbury wasn't about to let her baby be taken away so she immediately decided she would get moving.  Once we finally got them out to the field, Chupa explored her new surroundings.

Today we finish securing the fence, and attempt to build a proper shelter for them.  Last night Dash was evicted from his kennel and the girls spent the night in that.  They were okay but they need their own shelter in their own pasture.