tdierikx Posted May 20, 2017 Author Share Posted May 20, 2017 Beautiful shots. Are they drinking from their mums or bottle-raised? Just curious as I'm bottle-raising two alpaca babies. I wish they had the confidence of kids, often they need to be cornered and caught before feeding them, stress all round. Four-five bottles each a day at present so it's pretty full-time. Wish the foster-mum plan had worked out, most definitely a foster failure the wrong way around. They are bottle fed...and will nibble on solid food in between quite happily... hay, chaff, pellets, and grains. A few of them are buggers at bottle time... still a bit leery of humans so we have to catch them up, but once plugged onto a bottle, they settle and go great guns. T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PossumCorner Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Alpaca individuals vary, but mostly they are quite standoffish and don't touch me, and especially don't touch my head, ever. Bottle-raised from a few days old they will bond or imprint, but these two I've just bought were out (in the herd of hundreds) for weeks, so different story. The older (2.5 months) lost his mum at 3/4 weeks, so he's not so nervous: the younger one is only 6 wks old, the mum only passed 10 days ago, he's improving but struggling to cope with the big changes. The one born here, Autumn, has been handled fairly minimum but is all over you like moss for pats. The males have a reputation for becoming dangerous and aggressive if they've been made pets of when young - but then so can big billy goats. Lots of exceptions to prove the rule, show animals are stabled, lead-trained etc. It's interesting, they must have been domesticated in South America as long as sheep have in Asia/Europe, but a different nature. Definitely camelids. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted May 20, 2017 Author Share Posted May 20, 2017 We have one alpaca at the farm... his name is Cadbury, and he's really friendly. His fave thing is to moosh his nose on your mouth... lol! Not so much fun on a dewy morning when his nose is all wet and cold... errr! This is him checking out what I was doing the other day... He shares his paddock with some mini donkeys, mini horses, and a couple of sheep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PossumCorner Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 He's lovely - any photos of the donkeys next time you're there would be good. (As in super good). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted May 23, 2017 Author Share Posted May 23, 2017 Sorry @PossumCorner - didn't get donkey photos today.... but did get a few crackers of other animals... Will they do? T. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 awwww.... lovely, T ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazm Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Wow. So gorgeous. Love the little piggies. And oh the guinea pigs bought back memories of ages ago. My kids had some and they were totally awesome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted May 24, 2017 Author Share Posted May 24, 2017 If you like piggies, you'll love this... lol! ... and here are some more guinea pig ones for your viewing pleasure @Zena's mum... T. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazm Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Hey T, you made me go looking for some of my guinea pig photos. I have posted some for your viewing pleasure also. Love the playing piggies. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazm Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 One more cutie. and yes we did have a few babies!!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 T .. I think you work somewhere near, or in, heaven!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted June 8, 2017 Author Share Posted June 8, 2017 Had one of our staff members do some yoga poses with some baby goats today... craziest photo session to date... lol! ... and at one point I snuck off to get my fave alpaca/llama kisses, and got this cracker shot... T. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 On 6/8/2017 at 6:26 PM, tdierikx said: Had one of our staff members do some yoga poses with some baby goats today... craziest photo session to date... lol! ... and at one point I snuck off to get my fave alpaca/llama kisses, and got this cracker shot... T. ohh!! Wonderful :D The yoga shots are great LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirislin Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 What do those goats look like now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted September 7, 2017 Author Share Posted September 7, 2017 Pip, the littlest one, is still smaller than everyone else... Fern, the one with the white face is still deadly cheeky, and not too big... and Rupert, the white one is about 3 times the size he was in these photos. T. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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