We are quite pleased that we have got through the party successfully and our embryo transfer programnme and started to catch up on our breedings although we have loads more to do now of our own – the donors from ET and the recipients we didn’t use. Not likely to start on those for at least a week. July 12th is the date for the party next year and we have booked the same band as they were very, very good – the best we have ever had. Our theme may be Italian and operatic. Colin and Linda Bell are coming to stay tonight so we will probably get some excellent ideas from them. Bizarrely they are off to a Kung Fu camp in Cornwall for a week, very odd.
I am feeling awful due to some kind of virus, lots of awful coughing, irritability and general out of sorts stuff. I haven’t been ill, apart from the diabetes thing for a couple of years, so not happy. However Lynette’s barn has burnt down taking with it a tractor, topper and haybob and her dog is dead so I think my complaints are pretty minor in comparison.
We have a sick weanling alpaca in the barn, not ours, that we fear has something horrible wrong with her. It is digestive and she cheers up a lot when the anti-inflammatory kicks in and starts eating and chewing rthe cud but when it wears off is pretty miserable. It is a watch and wait situation. The vet is on his way because we have an alpaca in labour but going nowhere. The cria is not even in the birth canal even though she is dilated and has a huge udder. It is late afternoon so she should have got it out by now so we are not sure what is going on.
The vet has pulleed a live female cria out. It was upside down which is why it felt so strange when Chas investigated. We had to put a clamp on its navel as it was bleeding but that has stopped and the two of them are tucked up in the barn as we are shrouded in drizzle.