[AlpacaTalk] female mating

 

My breeding female has been mating our young girl (her dtr) lately.
She was preg, but lost the baby with the stress of shearing this year
(same as last year) - huge disappointment as we were looking forward to
a fall cria :-(. Evidently to her as well. She has all summer been
jumping up on the back of this only slightly smaller female, but the
past week she has been performing actual mating behavior. The smaller
one is cushed and the older female is mating her - exactly as a male
would do. Same vocals, same body movements. Then when she rolls off
she just lays there on her side appearing to be in pain or discomfort
with her back legs frozen in position, hard to describe - laying on her
side with her hind legs up in the air separated.

Is this common? Should I be worried about anything? The younger one
doesn't seem to mind, is not struggling to get away or anything.

She has been flirting over the fence and the male has about torn down
the fence to get to her but it is way too hot and I do NOT want a summer
cria next year. So I will not be allowing them to get together for a
date until well into fall.

Thanks, JaniceElizabeth

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