Sweet Dreams finally delivered a beautiful girl after a very long wait. This was her first.
We had been working in the vicinity of the barn and stopped to have a look before heading in for lunch, and noticed that S.D. was walking funny. It was then apparent that there was a head and 2 legs, but the legs were in an incorrect position.
We geared up and went to help. Well S.D. did not think we were going to help, so she took off to the back part of the pasture with a half-born cria in tow. It took four of us maybe 20 minutes to get her in a position where we could catch her and assist.
Thankfully the cria was breathing during this time.
We finally birthed the cria and mom and baby are doing well.
She has earned the name Bacio, Italian for kiss, as all the alpacas came to the new addition to give her a nose-kiss.
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