New Goat Babies and an Alien!!

Tuesday evening, a very dear friend of mine was in a serious car accident. She has multiple broken bones and is still hospitalized. Last night her husband arrived home from work to find that one of their llamas had given birth, and then died shortly thereafter. The cria (baby llama) was alive. She called me to see if I would go see what I could do. So Stephanie and I drove over to find that the mother llama had lived long enough to nurse the baby (that colostrum saved the baby's life). So we packed the cria up and brought her home....we'll be bottle raising her until my friend is well enough to take over her care. We're doing everything we can to keep this girl alive and thriving.

So far we are keeping her in the kid pen. Mostly because my goats believe that I have brought home a totally freakazoid space alien. They don't know what the heck that thing is, but they are pretty sure it's not from around here! We are calling the llama Annie....since she is an orphan. So far so good, she gained .9 # in the one day that we've had her. Once we got over the excitement of the morning getting things done...I was really wishing that I had some goat colostrum to get into Annie. My dear beloved goat Faith obliged and gave birth on her actual due date! We have been giving the pregnant does raspberry tea leaf to aid the uterus for birthing and it must have done some good....she delivered 2 kids and both placentas in about 2 hours total. We have been praying for easy births...this was an answer to prayer in a number of ways! We were able to get 4 oz of colostrum into Annie....and freeze an additional 12 oz. Plus Faith has plenty for her 2 new kids. That's the boy on the left and the girl on the right. The girl looks just like Faith, but has a spot on her leg and one above her tail. No names yet.
And here's my dear girl Faith after a hard mornings' work...snuggled with her new baby.