Surprise cria!
10 February 2010 17:09![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maystoneSatine just had her cria! It's a girl - and a Hannibal baby for sure - and she's a month early, easily. Our friend's son, Reuben, who's hired to do afternoon chores found them in the barn. We figure she was born about 60-90 minutes before she was found. Both mom and baby seem to be OK - cold, of course - but the baby seems strong. Our friend Suelaine (Reuben's mom) was working in the mill when R. rushed in with the news, so she ran out to the barn and started warming the cria while one of the other mill workers came to tell us. We rushed out with a heating blanket and towels and hot water and the hair dryer and JumpStart and all of the other stuff you need for a cold-weather birth.
Suelaine's farm is right around the corner, and they have a special warm room where they keep sick alpacas. They moved Satine and the baby there to help with the warm-up. The biggest danger to the cria and the mom is hypothermia right now. It's about 65 degrees in that room, so that will be a big help. Dar went with them. We think that they should be able to come back tomorrow at some point. (The alpacas, that is. I expect Dar to be back in a while *g*) It takes 24 hours for a cria to be able to adjust their body temperature; I'm so grateful that they can stay in that warm room for a while.
More news when I get it!
Suelaine's farm is right around the corner, and they have a special warm room where they keep sick alpacas. They moved Satine and the baby there to help with the warm-up. The biggest danger to the cria and the mom is hypothermia right now. It's about 65 degrees in that room, so that will be a big help. Dar went with them. We think that they should be able to come back tomorrow at some point. (The alpacas, that is. I expect Dar to be back in a while *g*) It takes 24 hours for a cria to be able to adjust their body temperature; I'm so grateful that they can stay in that warm room for a while.
More news when I get it!
