[Alpacasite] Oops - bred to llama

Hello all,
Would love to have some input on this from the group:
One of the first alpacas I bought was a bred female that sold with a
free rebreeding to one of the selling farm's herdsires. She had the
baby and we picked out a herdsire for her second baby. She was bred,
confirmed pregnant and I took her home (for the first time) when she
was a few months pregnant.
Six months later, she had a baby. It was more than a month overdue (or
so we thought...). The baby was healthy and strong - but......... had
very long, large ears.......... hmmm....... this was only my third
baby at the time, but I immediately got very suspicious. An overdue
Mom that has a baby with llama features - could it be that her first
breeding didn't take and that she had accidentally been rebred by a
llama at the same farm? I didn't say much about it at the time and the
baby grew up looking more and more like an alpaca every day, even grew
into his ears surprisingly well. This all happened when the problems
at ARI were at their peak, very long processing times, so it took a
while to get the registration back, but when we did there was a
problem. The sire didn't qualify. We sent in optional sires but none
of the farm's alpaca males qualified. I was not surprised and had to
realize that my $30,000 female had been bred to a LLAMA. Oooops.
The farm has since sold the male I intended to breed to, as well as
almost all their other alpacas. I have asked them for some suggestion
of compensation, as there must be some value to one year of lost
production from a quality female. They keep saying they are going to
get back to me and I'm still waiting for that, months later. In the
meantime it would be interesting to hear how some of you would have
dealt with a similar situation. I understand mistakes can happen, but
I'm not willing to take the whole loss myself.
If this happened to you, what would you expect? Or if you were the
selling farm, what would you offer your client?

Thanks!

Charlotte Laning
The Old Smuggler Bearded Collies, One Little Whippet and the Itty Bitty
Tibbie - Dynamite® Dogs
The Old Smuggler Alpacas - Dynamite® Alpacas
http://DynamiteOnline.com/CharlotteLaning
Menomonee Falls, WI

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