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Jeff and Sheila
Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Easter-Wood Alpaca Stud is a family-run, BAS-registered Alpaca breeding enterprise, located in the Royal County of Berkshire. Sheila and Jeff Easter set the company up in mid-2008 when they purchased their first 5 Elite Australian Alpacas from Rob and Lesley Rawlins at Wellground Alpaca Stud Ltd. and is as a result of a long awaited dream of creating and managing a country-based livestock business on 7 ½ Acres site split into 10 paddocks and a mating pen. Our Alpaca breeding business is focused upon Elite breeding as our core business objective and also providing exceptional quality Alpaca genetics at competitive prices.
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Saturday, 11 July 2009

Not everything appears as it seems.....

No sooner than Sheila and I had felt our early born cria yesterday was pretty well text book delivery, we then had a long night of bottle feeding as she doesn't seem to know what to do at the "milk bar"! After providing her the powdered Colostrum (this in itself was a challenge), we then had to express mum's milk as it was clear that mum was a little distressed as a her udder was becoming increasingly larger!

The cria is slowly getting the hang of what she should be doing at the "milk bar" but it is proving to be a slow process. Such is life............

Well, I am now off again to give our little "early bird" another feed.

2 comments:

Rob Rawlins said...

Good luck Jeff and Sheila, let's hope your hard work will pay you back with a strong cria feeding from Mum naturally in the end.

Rob and Les

Jeff and Sheila said...

Thanks Rob & Les. We appreciate, as always your support and guidance.

Jeff & Sheila

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