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antiprose, and I love the whimsy.
2. We did not go into the bank today after all. Two reasons. One: the bank requires that all problems concerning transactions be initiated online, so Dar was all over that this morning. I have no idea when we'll actually hear anything back from them. Two: I had a down day. Legs not working. Brain not working. Poor Dar did everything while I lazed about in bed having what the cats considered to be one hell of a great pajama party.
3. Iceman has gone back to our friend's farm to live out his days until we can sell him. He was miserable here. Truly unhappy. He nearly broke my heart with his constant and frantic racing back and forth along the fence line when the rest of the herd was in their barn and he was alone in his paddock. Dar felt the same, of course, so we decided that even though we weren't crazy about the level of care he had received there, he was still much better off being in the company of a number of other males about his age. First and foremost alpacas are herd animals; they simply do not thrive on their own.
4. We're going to sell him because he's related to half of our girls, and of the two he can be bred to, one is Conchita who nearly died from the last cria he sired because the cria was so large. (That would be Spartacus.) We don't want to risk doing that again. The other possibility would be to breed him to Gertie, but since she and he are both white (he's solid, she has some fawn on her head and sides), we'd most probably end up with white crias, and we're hoping to breed mostly for color. So, Iceman will be someone else's herdsire, and we'll continue looking for a suitable herdsire for our girls.
5. Once we bring in some outside bloodlines, we can think about breeding Hannibal and Adama to the resultant progeny, because the relationships will be diffuse enough not to have to worry so much about inbreeding/linebreeding. But that's going to be a few years yet down the road.
6. The kittens are beautiful and healthy and insanely funny, and we've found a home for them with a friend of Dar's. So if anyone who's seen them already wants to put a claim in on one of them, she should speak up pretty soon. SF. Otherwise they'll be adopted out from right under your nose.
7. I'd really like it to be autumn, please.
antiprose, and I love the whimsy.2. We did not go into the bank today after all. Two reasons. One: the bank requires that all problems concerning transactions be initiated online, so Dar was all over that this morning. I have no idea when we'll actually hear anything back from them. Two: I had a down day. Legs not working. Brain not working. Poor Dar did everything while I lazed about in bed having what the cats considered to be one hell of a great pajama party.
3. Iceman has gone back to our friend's farm to live out his days until we can sell him. He was miserable here. Truly unhappy. He nearly broke my heart with his constant and frantic racing back and forth along the fence line when the rest of the herd was in their barn and he was alone in his paddock. Dar felt the same, of course, so we decided that even though we weren't crazy about the level of care he had received there, he was still much better off being in the company of a number of other males about his age. First and foremost alpacas are herd animals; they simply do not thrive on their own.
4. We're going to sell him because he's related to half of our girls, and of the two he can be bred to, one is Conchita who nearly died from the last cria he sired because the cria was so large. (That would be Spartacus.) We don't want to risk doing that again. The other possibility would be to breed him to Gertie, but since she and he are both white (he's solid, she has some fawn on her head and sides), we'd most probably end up with white crias, and we're hoping to breed mostly for color. So, Iceman will be someone else's herdsire, and we'll continue looking for a suitable herdsire for our girls.
5. Once we bring in some outside bloodlines, we can think about breeding Hannibal and Adama to the resultant progeny, because the relationships will be diffuse enough not to have to worry so much about inbreeding/linebreeding. But that's going to be a few years yet down the road.
6. The kittens are beautiful and healthy and insanely funny, and we've found a home for them with a friend of Dar's. So if anyone who's seen them already wants to put a claim in on one of them, she should speak up pretty soon. SF. Otherwise they'll be adopted out from right under your nose.
7. I'd really like it to be autumn, please.
