The mom is named Dori. She’s a first time mom and had this beautiful 18 lb cria, who was born today at 12:30pm. No name yet, but her dad is Charlie Brown, hehe, he’s the same color brown as this little one is, but she is his first daughter, he has thrown 3 males (also his color). Tim and Ev were very happy to have a little female this time. :). The cria that was born in May was a male they named Oreo because he was black with a white face. Boots (Oreo’s mom, is a black female with with white on the lower part of her front legs, thus her name lol) was brought into the herd last year and was already pregnant (we didn’t know) so we don’t know who the father was. All the males and females on that farm were registered and there’s no genetics to our herd, so having a new black male alpaca is a plus :). Only Izabella is left to have her cria but she’s not due until September, bless her heart having to carry through the hot summer.

I’ve been using my wool combs on the 2nds from Leah (a year old cria). This fleece is soooo soft, but dirty and the combs are doing a good job helping to take out the hay pieces. I’m washing after combing instead of before because her fiber is so soft that the hay just sticks to it and I figured that washing it first would just dig it deeper in. I’ll show a picture when I get enough to card into a batt. It’s a slow process but worth it to save this luxury fiber. 🙂