September Cria Update

The month of September is half over and the timing on Peggy's return to the farm from her recent travels could not have been better--five cria arrived in five days. She had barely landed in Portland on September 9th when Tony called to tell her NWA/Faiks' Elana had delivered a beautiful Bogart female we have since named Tucker Creek's Toffee. She is a second generation Studmaster who is a beautiful coppery brown color with the signature density and crimp of Hemingway's Bogart. Her grandsire is Studmaster El Toro. Elana continues to be a very protective mom spitting at all of us as we have tended to Toffee's needs. But spitting aside--you gotta love an alpaca who has presented us with four female cria to date--Cocopuff out of Gallant Deed, Ivory out of Glacial Storm and Clearwater and Toffee out of Hemingway's Bogart.

The morning of September 11th at 9:11 AM K-2's Chandra owned by Parson's Prairie Farm presented us with a very crimpy dense beige Hemingway's Bogart female cria they appropriately named Tribute in honor of the date and time she was born. She is a second generation Studmaster with K-2 as her grandsire. Simply gorgeous. To date Chandra has also only had female cria--Tucker Creek's Juliette out of Glacial Storm and Tucker Creek's Khani and Tribute each out of Hemingway's Bogart.

The next day NWA/DKM Dakotah presented Parson's Prairie Farm with another Bogart cria--a medium fawn male named Fenway--very dense and crimpy. Dakotah is the ultimate mom.

One day later we were presented with two Sun Tzu male cria. The first, Tucker Creek's Heath, is a handsome dark brown male out of SNF Loki, a beautiful great granddaughter of Peruvian Hemingway. Heath is her first cria and she had a text book delivery.

October Fest was in labor a good portion of the day and was a very attentive auntie to the rest of the newborns in her pasture. Finally, late in the afternoon she presented us with a wonderful medium fawn male we have named Tucker Creek's Rocky Road. He is pretty much in non-stop motion. We never got a really good look at him nursing as he always a backed off when we checked--however, he continued to be in constant motion so we knew he had to be eating. Finally, we saw him nurse heartily so we could quit worrying. This is a shot of him checking out his new legs.

As long as we are doing updates on cria--check out this shot taken over the weekend of one of last year's cria--Tucker Creek's Journey out of Dakotah and Sun Tzu. The Overbey's of Parson's Prairie Farm sent me this shot showing Journey and Kellie Overbey getting ready for the fall show series--what a handsome Studmaster progeny. Nice job, Kellie.

With ten more births scheduled through the end of October we are thrilled with this year's group of Studmaster offspring.