Day 350
Who said cria watch is no fun? It's great in the beginning. It's when it is the last cria due for a long stretch and one has been on watch since November and when one is very worried that a dystocia is in the making that cria watch loses its charm.
There was a neonatal clinic this past weekend at the Virginia - Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at VA Tech in Blacksburg. I didn't go for the second year in a row due to cria watch. Well, let me rephrase that. Last year I didn't go because I was supposed to be on cria watch. Same dam BTW. On March 1st last year I woke to find an extra set of legs in the barn... Cria was standing, all cleaned off and a female! What more could one ask for? I would have preferred to have been able to see the birth but that would have just been icing on the cake. Good thing I didn't reserve space this year - she was actually due on February 22nd - I never would have thought we would still be watching on March 3rd!
As I understand it, it was a great clinic. My friend Valarie, a very new alpaca owner, attended and called me on the way home Saturday. First words were "Did Whitney have her baby yet?" I may have followed my "NO" with something like "Baby? Whitney is having a baby?" Cria watch does strange things to my sense of humor.
I have mentioned in a previous blog entry that I have moved my office and computer into the dining room so that I can have constant view of pasture and barn cam monitor. I never thought I would admit this but I am so tired of sitting at the computer. My fellow VAOBA board members are very tired of me sitting at the computer too, no doubt. I very rarely play games on the computer so my time spent of late has been researching what other affiliates do (checking out all of their websites!, Affiliate Congress work site organizational work, some show superintendent work and probably a lot of staring into space... There could be some possible action going on within a certain female alpaca as I type. Unfortunately she has settled herself such that there are five layers of fencing between us... Between fence and trees she does manage to make sure my view is somewhat obstructed.
Okay, I am rambling now and what is worse is that I know it. Today would be a lovely day for a baby... Temps should get to seventy degrees, it is sunny and we have gorgeous blue skies. I am expecting no company - she will have her privacy. Maybe she's been waiting for that?
Sigh. I will be back with pictures... Someday.
There was a neonatal clinic this past weekend at the Virginia - Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at VA Tech in Blacksburg. I didn't go for the second year in a row due to cria watch. Well, let me rephrase that. Last year I didn't go because I was supposed to be on cria watch. Same dam BTW. On March 1st last year I woke to find an extra set of legs in the barn... Cria was standing, all cleaned off and a female! What more could one ask for? I would have preferred to have been able to see the birth but that would have just been icing on the cake. Good thing I didn't reserve space this year - she was actually due on February 22nd - I never would have thought we would still be watching on March 3rd!
As I understand it, it was a great clinic. My friend Valarie, a very new alpaca owner, attended and called me on the way home Saturday. First words were "Did Whitney have her baby yet?" I may have followed my "NO" with something like "Baby? Whitney is having a baby?" Cria watch does strange things to my sense of humor.
I have mentioned in a previous blog entry that I have moved my office and computer into the dining room so that I can have constant view of pasture and barn cam monitor. I never thought I would admit this but I am so tired of sitting at the computer. My fellow VAOBA board members are very tired of me sitting at the computer too, no doubt. I very rarely play games on the computer so my time spent of late has been researching what other affiliates do (checking out all of their websites!, Affiliate Congress work site organizational work, some show superintendent work and probably a lot of staring into space... There could be some possible action going on within a certain female alpaca as I type. Unfortunately she has settled herself such that there are five layers of fencing between us... Between fence and trees she does manage to make sure my view is somewhat obstructed.
Okay, I am rambling now and what is worse is that I know it. Today would be a lovely day for a baby... Temps should get to seventy degrees, it is sunny and we have gorgeous blue skies. I am expecting no company - she will have her privacy. Maybe she's been waiting for that?
Sigh. I will be back with pictures... Someday.
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