Ikon, our black, is positively hysterical with lust so we decided to take pity on him and give him a bonk with a girl who is probably a non breeding female now. That shut him up for a while although we had to listen to his excessively loud orgling – he is the star of our orgling tape. There were three other males going at the same time so if anyone rings up we have to scream down the phone at them and cloister ourselves in the lavatory where it is vaguely quiet. Jaquinto is back with us and we have a couple of girls who have birthed recently who were waiting for him.
The vet was here today to do a health certificate on a girl we have sold. All was well. He had more information on an adult female who died severely anaemic. It was a non regenerative anaemia and at first sight appeared to be a bone marrow infection. The lab sent the bloods on to another lab and now the pathologist there hopes to gain more information from a bone marrow sample taken at the post mortem. The vet is is hoping he took the sample in time as the marrow degenerates very quickly.
Another row appears to be engulfing the British Alpaca Society board, poor things. They have had the long running judges re-certification horror to deal with and now there is a challenge to the £2,000 registration fee for imported screened animals. Seems a bit over the top as anyone bringing in a high-end stud male from overseas will have paid a lot of money for the animal and another £2,000 is unlikely to break the bank. Any discussion on the registry, registry closure or partial closure to protect our British market is likely to turn into a reasonably nasty row as it could interrupt the the flow of money out of the UK to the importers in other countries. And why should breeders who don’t live here care about our market and whether it suffers, it is not their problem, it is our problem. The ‘we haven’t got anough genetics’ argument will surface but I think that is difficult to sustain as I can’t think of many bloodlines that aren’t already here. Hey ho, the AGM in March should be fun.