| Hi, Just some of the day to day events here at Cherwell Leys. |
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| February 2010
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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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| January 2010
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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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