At 10:00 am yesterday, "Truffle" was born and within 15 minutes was standing and a further 10 minutes later, saw her feeding on the milk bar, much to our relief! She has inherited the most striking facial characteristics of Ice Cool Lad as has the previous cria born to Marmite two weeks ago. She is an absolute stunner and Sheila and I are very pleased that Ice Cool Lad has been successful in producing excellent progeny for us so far.
Truffle's first "go" at the milk bar!
Being "sussed" out
The colouring of her fleece in sharp contrast to a Medium Brown!
The youngsters have now all experienced their first rain last night and whilst the Sun has disappeared for a while, we certainly need the water for the grass.
I will finish on a rather bizarre note...................our farm cat, who is probably the size of a young rabbit, decided to switch from hunting mice to rabbit and was caught sight running off to the barn with a young rabbit in her jaws. Before she could reach it however, the rabbit put in a final desperate attempt at escape and managed to get away and promptly ran into the nearest paddock, only to be chased by about 10 Alpacas!!.... It survived and I extracted it out of some thick grass and let her go in an adjacent field.
Be back soon
As I have said before Jeff, Ice Cool Lad is the right male to put over coloureds, very rare he creates a broken colour, they are virtually all a solid brown/fawn/apricot colour, with quality too.
ReplyDeleteThat is another lovely cria, you are doing so well with ICL. Well done.
Rob
A fantastic colour - Ice Cool Lad has produced another stunner.
ReplyDeleteTruffle is lovely - a fantastic colour and looks a really healthy little girl.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
Well done, Truffle is a lovely colour.
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