Meet my growing herd

After 10 months of investigating the alpaca business I finally made my purchase in January 2008. I purchased 2 bred females that were both due that same year and half interest in a young male.

This is my gorgeous true black girl Hannah. She is absolutely beautiful in person. I fell in love with her the moment I layed eyes on her and I knew she would be part of my purchase. She was already six months pregnant at that time so my first cria was just around the corner. Hannah gave birth right on time with no problems and it only took about 10 minutes for it all to happen. Pretty good for a first time mom!

I got the message at 12:00 pm June 18th 2008 and of course there was no way I could get up there until the weekend. I live on Long Island and the farm is about 3 hours away upstate. Hannah gave birth to medium rose gray girl named Harmony who is just as beautiful as her mom. She also inherited her extremely soft and fine fleece. She will definitely be at the shows in the spring of 2009. Can't wait!

Then we have Audrey Hepburn who is such a wonderful mother. She's already given birth to 2 males and 2 females. Audrey has a very nice mix of colors on her which enables her to throw almost any color. She has a dark rose gray body with black legs and ears, sliver gray neck, a white face and raccoon eyes. She is a must for my plan to bread for color. Plus she's just so pretty to look at.

Audrey gave birth to a light fawn boy on September 30th 2008. We named him Alexander Magnus after his Sire Romantico's Peruvian Magnus. That is also where he got his color from I'm sure. Alex is so spunky and full of life, he's already jumping on the females and the young males. Hopefully he'll grow up to be a nice herd sire one day. Right now he's just adorable!

And last but not least there's Monte who's co-own by Rosehaven. He's a true black boy with fiber that looks wet it's so shinny. He just started the show season this spring but didn't do as well as we expected. He took a fifth place at 2 shows. Since then he's really filled out some and his fleece is looking really nice. He'll be at the New Jersey show in November so we'll see how he does there. He's still a cutie.

Patty Ludwig

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