[AlpacaTalk] RE: female acting funny

 

<<<I hope all is well with your girl but it might be worth it to have
her checked for a torsion or a possible breach this appears to be too
close to her due day for it to be something you should blow-off. - Which
I know you are not.- On the good side the cria may have been turning
making ready for an exit. Keep checking her Temperature and making sure
she is Drinking and Eatting but most of all do what you are doing ->
watching for signs that she is "Just a little, Off."

You said the male was taken out of the field last December -- When was
he put in?
She could be one of the early breedings .

Good luck.
Blackpearlfarm???

I don't have a vet, so while not blowing it off at all, I have no way to
have her checked for torsion or breach. Since she ate soon after the up
and down routine, and has been normal ever since I am hoping/assuming
that means whatever was going on has righted itself.

Does temp change when labor is imminent?

I miswrote the statement about the male - he has been separated since
mid Jan, after a few matings were noted. In my notes "mating Jan 11
and few more after that before separating mid Jan"). Their cria was
born very end of Dec. So if they took the conception was right at
early-mid Jan, so looking for another late Dec, early Jan cria, tho I
will start pacing by early Dec and start fretting by mid Dec.

I am mostly concerned about the young pyr brothers that have been in the
pasture with the alpacas since they were about 3 1/2 mos. Had to put
them to work way early due to coyote pressure. They have been great
with the pacas. They are now 6 1/2 mos and *huge*; sweet pups tho they
are starting to fight ferociously - sib brothers. They are scheduled
for their neutering this Fri which I hope will abate the awful
fighting. They cannot yet be trusted with the chickens/ducks/guineas
so they go in pen (in pasture) in daytime and come out to the full
pasture when birds go to bed at night. I have no idea how they will
react to a cria - esp if it has problems and is born early before they
are put in their pen for the day. I can't keep them penned up all night
waiting for a cria (one night I made them stay in pen all night as
punishment for "escaping". The very next night the coyotes were
back.....I haven't heard them at all since pyrs have been out there. So
cria is in more danger from coyote if pyrs are penned up. All I can do
I suppose is hope for the best and hope cria waits till after dogs are
penned up to join us. If I see "funny" behavior on the part of the
female I can put her up in barn for the night as I did the other night;
and that is what I hope will happen, but I have never before had any
forewarnings that a cria is imminent.

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