| Hi, Just some of the day to day events here at Cherwell Leys. |
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| March 2010
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27th March : Early Cria Nutmeg chose a break in the weather to give birth early to a premature baby sired by Regency. This time we got a little boy, very light fawn at birth, but lightening up all the time. He needed some help at first with feeding as he was too weak to stand by himself. Spent a few nights in our cria care unit tucked up on straw under the heat lamp in our barn. Once the worst of the weather had passed he was back out in the field running around with his two new friends. As his Dam is Nutmeg and his Sire is Regency, the new addition has been named Mace.
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21st March : Star's Second Cria Although a little early and premature cria as a result, Star's second cria has proved even more exciting than his first. From a pairing that includes Jolimont Commisario, Peruvian Hemingway and NWA Ruffo in her pedigree she has a lot to live up to. Born on the first day of Spring she has been named Primavera. A second girl, Star has 100% record of female cria, so far !! A very fortuitous start to his stud career.
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10th March : Star's First Cria A truly exciting day, our home bred male, CWL Antipodean Star, sired his first cria, a beautiful baby girl, named Stellar. We are so pleased with the quality of the baby produced by Star paired with one of our older girls, we are looking forward to the next addition due any day soon.
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2nd February : Raining The new paddocks have been finished off and the water troughs connected. The girls have been moved in and are enjoying their new pastures. All completed in time for the rain to start at midday. Rain has meant no pictures yet, but this is what the hay paddock looked like last year. |
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1st February : New Water Troughs At the start of the year we had our hay paddock split into four to ease rotation grazing for the girls. Now we are getting the water troughs plumbed directly into our water supply. We are getting the stud paddocks joined up as well, so that the boys always have fresh water without us having to fill their troughs by hand. (A little luxury for us) The girls are looking forward to their new paddocks, this is a recent photo of Misty in the snow, just testing the greenery. It was a concern when the snow was here just what the alpacas would try to eat, they had plenty of hay but they would try everything that was green, at least once. Caught on camera mis-behaving, so no chance to deny the offence. |
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13th January : Woody's First Birthday Woody has celebrated in style with his friends today. He needed special care when he was born last year and spent his first night warmed up by our Aga. Then out to our barn and his mum the next morning. We had to express milk from Camillia to bottle feed him his valuable colostrum and keep mum producing milk for when he was strong enough to stand and feed himself. There were tears when he stood up and suckled for the first time, one year on we know he is worth all our effort. |
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9th January : Sheltered The weaned cria making the most of their field shelter and enjoying the hay provided. A lovely row of youngsters from left to right, Joseph, Rufus, Cherry B, Woody & Benji, |
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8th January : Weaning Most of last years cria have now been weaned from their mums. Mums have moved to new pasture and babies are tucking into hard feed and fending for themselves. Hope that the snow and cold weather are not around too long. |
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5th January : Young Males Our up and coming young males and in the background you can see where the work should be going on to split our hay field into four smaller paddocks. We have updated our sales page, new pregnant girls and potential stud males. Centre of the photo is Whisky Mac a very exciting solid fawn young male. He hid his light under a bushel but has just started to shine now he is coming of age. You just do not know when they are youngsters what they will grow into, or not !! |
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