On July 31st we were very happy with the arrival of Tucker Creek's Shea, a
beautiful Sun Tzu female out of BW Saphirreshope AATC. Hope is owned by Parsons' Prairie Farm in Gladstone, MO. Shea is a second generation Studmaster female with her grand herdsire being MSA Peruvian Cannonero. Yes, that is a jacket on Shea--just because it was almost August doesn't mean it can't get cold on the Oregon coast. It got down to 47 degrees over night on the day she was born. Kim and Jeff Overbey own the virtual alpaca farm and have chosen to name this year's crias after ball parks--they already have a handsome little man named PARSONSPF Wrigley. What a great idea!
Two days later on August 2nd Oar's Bugaboo delivered a beautiful EC Sun Tzu baby girl. This little one was brought
into the world with the help of Tony Dejesus, one of the great guys who helps us run our farm. Korynn, our assistant, and Peggy were enroute to Northwest Alpacas to return Paul Revere and pick up Glacial Storm when they got the call that a new cria was in the pasture. Tony very handily took care of all the necessary new born issues and in return he got to name her. Tucker Creek's Luna is a very strong dense example of her father. With Bugaboo being a blue eyed white we, of course, had the concern her cria might also have blue eyes. Our history with Sun Tzu to date has been zero blue eyes so he is becoming our go-to guy for clients with blue-eyed females.
Our most recent addition was born on August 13th. It is a beautiful male out of our rose grey SNF Mia and MSA Hemingway's Bogart. The little guy has been named Tucker Creek's Buckeye. One of Peggy's best friends recently passed away after a lingering illness and they spent many hours over the years discussing the ups and downs of The Ohio State University Buckeyes. It seemed only appropriate to honor him by naming this little guy after their favorite team. As with all our Bogart babies--he is soft and crimpy.
The next wave of little ones should start arriving around the middle of September--will post another cria update early next month. Enjoy!
