Came home the other day and now most days since, our two males are regularily battling. They are chasing each other around the pasture, spitting at one another, biting at each other (canines have been ground down), and sometimes wresting each other to the ground. This in course insites our dogs which start barking and chasing spurring on the Alpacas like a crowd at a good fight.
This all started about 4 days after we bred Icelander to Sweet Dreams. One mistake we did make upon rereading the breeding sections of the alpaca books was we forgot to have the breeding take place on neutral ground and instead it took place in the male section of the barn. So this problably was the initial stimulus for the fighting. Hopefully the two males will soon establish the new pecking order and peace will ensue.
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