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Baby Boom

at The Llama Park

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Last year in July we bought a male llama stud from an Emu farm, of all places, in Hereford. He was quite hairy and had a sort of ‘lions’ mane so we called him Leo.

He was quite small for a male llama and did not settle in very well and so we were quite disappointed as most of the ladies just ignored him and did not respond to his advances, or so we thought... .... until Sunday 19th July this year (a year to the day that we bought him) when late in the afternoon we discovered twin baby girl llamas, known as "crias", in a paddock with their mum Skye who is 9 years old. The birth of twins is exceptionally rare in 'camelids', 30,000 to 1 chance, so this was a major surprise to us and has made waves in the llama-world. One of the babies did not look well and so we got our lovely vet to have a look at her and some friends of ours who are local Alpaca breeders, Vicky and Chris Agar, provided us with some camelid plasma which was given to 'Spotty' and she has been doing very well ever since. We called her sister 'Polo' and 'Spotty' has been renamed 'Beth' after one of our lovely livestock girls. Then to our great surprise on Tuesday 21st (just two days later) we had a third birth. The mother is 'Lulu' who is also 9 years old. This was another little girl 'cria' who we have named 'Farah' after a dear friend of ours.

Well, we thought, that is amazing as we had not expected anything from Leo and had thought he was shooting blanks. But no, he was not!

On Wednesday 22nd July Skye's daughter, Rain who is 3 years old, gave birth to a very strong and handsome little boy who has been named Willy after another of our livestock staff. By now Leo has become something of a famous stud so we determined to give him a

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