Alpaca update

Leaf and Cupcake are doing brilliantly.
Cupcake has turned into a right bruiser. Vienna's babies always do this. She puts her all into them, and really suffers for it. She is very thin. But we're feeding her about 5 times a day, every time her trough is empty we put more in and finally she's beginning to look a bit better.

Leaf's leg has fixed itself beautifully. He's a completely different build to Cupcake. He's very tall and slim. A really lovely boy.

 Here he was one afternoon, having a wee snuggly nap on his mum. He was still wearing his coat here as it was a bit cold and wet. I made this one by using Cupcakes one as a pattern. It came out pretty well.

He's all fluffy and clean compared to the pics when he was just born. Steve and Christine had a check of the fleece (fibre) of the 2 babies and said it's really incredibly good, so we'll keep these to use.

Look! He's smiling for the camera

 And here's Cupcake - look at the size of her!

The 2 mums and babies are in a paddock together so that they can get a lot of extra food. Cupcake has been used to being the only cria for a month until Leaf came along, so she's pretty independent. But Leaf just wants to play, and jumps all over her. It's really funny.

More pics of coat off!

Mmmm this fence looks good enough to eat.

This was taken seconds before leaf jumped up and did a lovely kicky leg thing!

 Aw look how handsome he is.

Kopi, just hanging out with her pals.

I couldn't resist this! Rachel just follows us around the paddocks like a puppy! Hard to believe she's 45 now!