Barnaby

Born: 6 June 2008

Colour: white

Fourth cria of Gabby, who was infatuated by him, and her second son. The arrival of Barnaby saw the bond between Gabby and Imala strenghen, or rather Imala take on full time baby sitting duties until her own baby arrived. Barnaby was our first EPC Top Account cria. He was also our second heaviest cria at 9.2kg and by 23 August was 22.9kg - watch out Chiquita he's catching you up! Barnaby was weaned on 14 December and we have noticed he tends to be the last one to rise in the morning, he obviously likes his bed! Barnaby now lives at Lavender-Bee Alpacas.

Duke

Born: 22 June 2009

Colour: white

Just like his elder brother, Barnaby, who lives at Lavender-Bee Alpacas, Duke was another of Gabby's mummy's boys! He is a very loving boy and loves to chat and exchange kisses, Duke knows his name and lifts his tail in acknowledgment. His early trick in life was to (succesfully) beg some of Heidi's bottle from Debbie. Duke is now owned by Jayne at Zanzibah Alpacas and lives in Scotland.

Gaussian

Born: 6 July 2008

Colour: white

Our first cria from Bozedown Viscount, and taking the record heavyweight title from Barnaby by 0.1kg to weigh in at 9.3kg at birth. This is a great example of alpaca colour breeding being an art not a science. The same combination of dam and sire two years ago produced a brown female! His birth caught us on the hop when we went to show Carol and Dave (our regular manure collectors and gardening enthusiasts) the herd to see him lying on the floor, kushing (sitting) immediately and feeding within minutes! Like his mum, Geena, he was humming loudly from birth and has hardly stopped since. We wondered what the definition of white noise was and apparently, "the term Gaussian white noise is commonly applied to a noise signal in the spatial domain which has an autocorrelation which can be represented by a delta function over the relevant space dimensions" so Gaussian ("Gaw-see-an") it was! Unfortunately Geena was light on milk in 2008 so we tried to top Gaussian up with powdered alpaca milk and then with full fat Goat's milk. His appetite was low, so we nicknamed him "Colin" (family joke...). You can read about our 'challenges' with Gaussian on Debbie's alpaca blog.  By 14 December 2008 his weight peaked at 15.9kg  but then fell back until 4 January to 14.3kg. Since then he gained weight slowly and on 1 May was over 21kg and has now been weaned. Gaussian is halter trained and has even started eating camelibra! Gaussian now lives at Lavender-Bee Alpacas.

Horatio

Born: 5 May 2008

Colour: black

Second cria of Mary and first son, Horatio was the first Barnacre cria of 2008. He was a healthy 7.94kg born to the great entertainment of Becky and Pete on Bank Holiday Monday, causing them to get home many hours later than planned. He is certainly not a retiring character in fact he is Trouble with a capital "T". Since he was two weeks old he has been jumping on the pregnant females, and he started eating (adult) Camelibra (food supplement) at 12 days old! When your dam (mum) is Mary you are hardly going to be 'normal'! His sire (father) is Hornblower (of Farrlacey) so what else could he be called other than Horatio (Latin for time, and he certainly took his arriving with a 13 month gestation period)?!  Horatio grew fast and on 12 July was 22.5kg - we stop weighing around this level and use other ways to measure growth and health. Horatio was weaned on 14 December and is halter trained. He was awarded 3rd place (intermediate black) at the Northumberland county show. At the 2009 Scottish National Show Horatio was awarded 1st intermediate black male and best black in show. Horatio now lives at Lavender-Bee Alpacas.

Milly

Born: 23 July 2006

Colour: white

Milly is a well grown girl with an athletic frame. She was sired by the well know EP Cambridge Accoyo Remarque. She has a fantastic fleece, which is fine and dense, and we are expecting she will cut a heavy weight which will make fabulous knitwear. When Milly first arrived at Barnacre she was very close to her half sister Molly and they were never far apart. However, she is now happy to do her own thing and she is usually one of the first to arrive when the hay bale is uncovered. Milly has been scanned pregnant to our elite stud Gianmarco's Masterpiece, so we are particularly excited about what she will produce in the summer. Milly is sold and will be heading to her new loving home in 2010.

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