Re: [AlpacaTalk] a new birth

I've had all boys too, 6 in 3 years. The last couple, my hubby kept telling
me to check again like it was going to change what I saw. LOL Flossie

Flossie and Joe Carmichael
GentleGrangeAlpacas
Jamison,Pa.
http://www.alpacanation.com/gentlegrange.asp

>From: houckj@aol.com
>Reply-To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
>To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] a new birth
>Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:52:32 EDT
>
>In a message dated 8/31/07 12:26:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>sherih@woodlandmeadows.com writes:
>
>
> > he didn't nurse and we finally gave him colustrum
> >
>
>Congrats Wendy! The crias are always so adorable. I have a question -
>where
>did you get the colostrum? I recently lost a newborn as the mama died
>either
>in childbirth or soon after. She was dead when I got up that morning and
>the
>baby nearly dead. A friend got right over with some frozen goat colostrum
>she had saved from her goats and I bottle fed for 4 days before the perfect
>little one died. I was so sad as the daddy had died in January and this
>was the
>only thing I had left of him. The mama's death was a total shock. She
>went
>off her feed the night before but had been apparently fine right up until
>then.
>I was horrified and heartbroken the next morning.
>I have had other babies that couldn't nurse - we seem to have a frequent
>premmies or weak crias that can't or won't nurse. I am not that
>experienced and
>have a very small hobby herd for fiber.
>So I was curious as to where and how you obtained colostrum - was it
>alpaca?
>
>Someone recently posted that they had all male babies - me too! What is
>that
>all about? I have had 5 crias total and each and every one has been a
>male!
>
>Thanks, Janice in GA
>
>
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