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.

Cria Update

Wow, September is here and we still have 15 more cria scheduled to arrive through mid-October. Since our last cria update on July 25th we have had three more deliveries--two female crias out of EC Sun Tzu and one male cria out of MSA Hemingway's Bogart.

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!

Cria Update--2 more

On July 14th Cocopuff presented us with a very handsome MFI Peruvian Providence male cria by the name of MRN Moche of Providence. He is a third generation Studmaster progeny with Providence as sire, MFI Peruvian Gallant Deed as the sire of his dam and El Toro 605 IMPG98 the sire of his granddam, Faik's Elana. He has the whole package as would be expected from his lineage. The rest of the names in his lineage would be the who's who of alpacas--Ppperuvian Royal Fawn, Ppperuvian Augusto, My Peruvian Rolex, 6Peruvian Accoyo Titan and last but not least Ppperuvian Mr. President. Moche is proudly owned by Alpacas of Marin.

The most recent addition appeared yesterday afternoon, July 24th.

Autumn Sunshine delivered the third of Tucker Creek's Wilson's offspring. As you may recall, Wilson died on February 2nd so each of his offspring are very special to us. Following the candy theme for this year his name is Tucker Creek's Big Hunk. With him comes a mixture of Peruvian Hemingway out of grandsire El Bello, Ppperuvian Augusto out of MFI Peruvian Glacial Storm and a bit of Accoyo on Autumn's side of the family tree--El Bello's dam is full Accoyo, PPPeruvian Julia.

Eighteen more little critters are expected this year. With the eight cria who have arrived so far the boys are winning--two girls against six boys--but Candy and Cherry Garcia are doing a good job of keeping those boys in line.

Two more cria this week

The cria additions for this week were both from client females--Izett for Jim Supple out of Cool, CA and Brandy for Stoneberg Alpacas, LLC out of Hillsboro, OR. For each of these females it was their first delivery and they were text book--not a glitch for either and both are excellent moms.

Izett's little male is out of Sun Tzu, has lovely crimpy fiber and he looks like he will be beige. So far we are calling him Jim as the owner has not yet given us a name. As our friends at Snowy River Alpacas can share with you--those "temporary" names can stick with them as we all still call Shadow by the name of Parker as they took too long to come up with an official name. His blood draw was done as Parker, his microchip, for just about all those early cria activities he was called Parker. If we aren't careful this little guy Jim could be in the show ring still being called Jim.

Brandy was bred to Pacific Crest Accoyo Paul Revere and her male cria is medium fawn. This photo taken by Doc Hunter of his granddaughter, Belle, holding Firecracker was just too cute to pass posting. Belle was helping while her grandfather drew Firecracker's blood for his IgG and DNA tests as well as while he was implanting his microchip. What a great little helper. Belle is planning to be a veterinarian like her grandfather--she is already in training.

Wilson Cria Number Two is a Girl

On June 30th at 12:32 pm Jasmine layed down in front of us and presented us with a beautiful baby girl--as you can see from the photo her cria is just a much smaller version of herself. Carrie Hull of Coarse Broads came up with the perfect name for her while she was sorting Jasmine's fiber--Carrie thought her fiber reminded her of Cherry Garcia. Now considering that Cherry Garcia is one of my favorite things--the name was perfect. Cherry was up and nursing within 35 minutes and trying out her running legs within an hour.

Each of Wilson's cria demonstrate a little bit of him--his stance, his interest in everything, his overall presence. We still miss him--but it is nice to have a part of him in our pastures. Two more of his cria are scheduled--one next month out of Autumn Sunshine and one in October out of Bo Jangles.

Cria Season Has Begun at Tucker Creek

To say that cria season is one of my favorite times of the year is like saying that dark chocolate is just another food group.

This year has started off with three wonderful additions--each with their own story. Each year we select a theme for naming these little critters and this year we are naming them after different types of candy (unfortunately not all of them are dark chocolate--but they are still really fun names).

The first one arrived on June 2nd and what a moose--22.2 pounds at birth. She is a beautiful medium fawn out of our matriarch, Queen Amidala, and Sun Tzu. The crimp on this little one is absolutely gorgeous. Sun Tzu's attributes are definitely showing up on this very controlling cria (just like her mother). Seemed only appropriate that one of them be called Candy.

Then on June 12th we got the first of only four cria bred from our beloved Wilson who died this past February. Wilson was only two and a half when he died and was one of the most precocious mischievous gorgeous males born on our property. He was co-owned with Rising Moon Alpacas in Preston, NV. 2007 was his first breeding season and we have been waiting patiently for his offspring to arrive. His first was out of Coastal Moon's Katrina (a medium silver grey). He is dark brown with a wonderful white and black face. He may be younger and smaller than Candy--but he is every bit his father's son and presents some stiff competition when it is time for cria races. Seemed only appropriate to name him after this sire--this is Tucker Creek's Wilson, Jr.

The most recent arrival is another Sun Tzu progeny out of our other matriarch, Tequila's Marcella, (she and Amidala don't fight--they just rule autonomously). He is the first true black born on the farm--should be exciting to see if he stays that color. His name is Sugar Daddy. Could this be the black herdsire Hailey Parker (Snowy River Alpacas) has been searching for?

The next one scheduled to arrive is Tucker Creek's Brandy owned by Stoneberg Alpacas. Eric is scheduled to be here on Monday to help us with nails and topknot trimming--maybe she is waiting until he arrives to deliver her Paul Revere female cria. We will keep you posted.