About the Baby
Since I'm a little recovered today, I thought I would answer comments and talk more about our baby.
She's still a knock-kneed and wobbly on her legs, but that's not unusual given her size at birth. Large cria get really folded into small spaces.
We're still looking for an appropriate name. We have a couple candidates in mind, but they don't seem quite right. We're looking for a feminine name and it has to sound slightly delicate -- look at that face! We'd like the name to be Scandinavian or Celtic in origin -- or at least sound that way. A name meaning faded mahogany or weathered cherry wood or something like that would be highly appropriate. We don't want a name that's too awful common in the alpaca industry and the name has to be something speakers of U.S. English can recognize as a name and spell readily. Suggestions are welcome and there will be a small gift of yarn or fiber if we use your suggestion.
Rita said...
What a lovely cria, looks like a girl, is it a girl? A rose-grey too, seems like it was a long wait.
Thank you Rita. Yes it is a girl -- see the excitement in my previous post. She's clearly a tuxedo gray. We're fairly certain she's a rose gray -- she certainly looks rose gray at this time. Chloe has several close relatives who were born looking rose-gray and turned out to be silver gray, so we're going to wait until we see some postpartum fleece to officially pronounce her a medium rose gray. In our haste (lust?) to have a rose gray on the property, we originally registered Sindre (Chloe's half brother) as a dark rose gray. While he has some brown tones, he really a medium silver gray. We don't want to make the same mistake again.
Theresa said...
Hooray for you and Chloe! What a beautiful color palette the new cria has. Is the new baby a boy or a girl?
Thank you Theresa. It is a girl.
Enjay said...
Way to go Chloe! What a pretty baby, well worth the wait.
June 02, 2006 3:16 AM
Thank you Enjay. The wait is longer than you might think. In 2002, when we started breeding, we wanted a rose gray. When Sindre was born in 2003, we thought we had that rose gray, but he turned out to be silver gray. Chloe had Percy in 2004 and he's a wonderful black alpaca. We purchased an expensive breeding to an award-winning gray alpaca for Chloe hoping for gray in 2005, but Chloe lost the baby. We waited to re-breed Chloe in June 2005 for a 2006 cria and finally got our rose gray. It's been a lot of work and a long wait.
Risë said...
Oh Kim, she's beautiful! The face is precious. The color is awesome. I think I may cry
Thank you Risë. She has her mom's face and we think she'll be very photogenic. We're loving the color. How are your crias doing?
jess said...
Hooray Chloe! Gorgeous baby. :)
Thank you Jess.
June said...
I felt a wide grin cross my face just by reading the title to your post. Hope it was an easy birth?! Welcome, little cria!!!
Thank you June. It was actually the first time we had to actually have the vet come out for the birth. We've called the vet for help during birth before and had him walk us through things, but this is the first time the vet had to come help. The signs of first stage labor were absent, masked, or not observed. We suspect Chloe was mistaking labor pains for hunger pains and frantically eating to make them go away. The first sign of labor Pam had was a foot sticking out without a nose. Initial signs pointed to a possible breech birth so Pam called the vet. By the time the vet actually arrived, Pam had located the head and probably didn't need the vet. There is no way she could have known that when she called the vet. With me at work and the vet at least thirty minutes away, she had to call first.
Cathy said...
What a gorgeous cria! Congrats to all!
Thank you Cathy.
jenifleur said...
Whew. I was getting worried. What a beautiful color. I'm assuming mom and cria are well and I'm doing the happy dance here for you!
Thanks Jen. We'd be doing the happy dance, too, if we weren't so tired.
Laurie said...
Congratulations! She is a beauty. I've clicked and clicked and clicked on bloglines and FINALLY the cria is here.
Thank you Laurie. While it's not quite clicking bloglines, we've beenclicking checking our pastures with the same regularity and FINALLY the cria is here.
She's still a knock-kneed and wobbly on her legs, but that's not unusual given her size at birth. Large cria get really folded into small spaces.
We're still looking for an appropriate name. We have a couple candidates in mind, but they don't seem quite right. We're looking for a feminine name and it has to sound slightly delicate -- look at that face! We'd like the name to be Scandinavian or Celtic in origin -- or at least sound that way. A name meaning faded mahogany or weathered cherry wood or something like that would be highly appropriate. We don't want a name that's too awful common in the alpaca industry and the name has to be something speakers of U.S. English can recognize as a name and spell readily. Suggestions are welcome and there will be a small gift of yarn or fiber if we use your suggestion.
Rita said...
What a lovely cria, looks like a girl, is it a girl? A rose-grey too, seems like it was a long wait.
Thank you Rita. Yes it is a girl -- see the excitement in my previous post. She's clearly a tuxedo gray. We're fairly certain she's a rose gray -- she certainly looks rose gray at this time. Chloe has several close relatives who were born looking rose-gray and turned out to be silver gray, so we're going to wait until we see some postpartum fleece to officially pronounce her a medium rose gray. In our haste (lust?) to have a rose gray on the property, we originally registered Sindre (Chloe's half brother) as a dark rose gray. While he has some brown tones, he really a medium silver gray. We don't want to make the same mistake again.
Theresa said...
Hooray for you and Chloe! What a beautiful color palette the new cria has. Is the new baby a boy or a girl?
Thank you Theresa. It is a girl.
Enjay said...
Way to go Chloe! What a pretty baby, well worth the wait.
June 02, 2006 3:16 AM
Thank you Enjay. The wait is longer than you might think. In 2002, when we started breeding, we wanted a rose gray. When Sindre was born in 2003, we thought we had that rose gray, but he turned out to be silver gray. Chloe had Percy in 2004 and he's a wonderful black alpaca. We purchased an expensive breeding to an award-winning gray alpaca for Chloe hoping for gray in 2005, but Chloe lost the baby. We waited to re-breed Chloe in June 2005 for a 2006 cria and finally got our rose gray. It's been a lot of work and a long wait.
Risë said...
Oh Kim, she's beautiful! The face is precious. The color is awesome. I think I may cry
Thank you Risë. She has her mom's face and we think she'll be very photogenic. We're loving the color. How are your crias doing?
jess said...
Hooray Chloe! Gorgeous baby. :)
Thank you Jess.
June said...
I felt a wide grin cross my face just by reading the title to your post. Hope it was an easy birth?! Welcome, little cria!!!
Thank you June. It was actually the first time we had to actually have the vet come out for the birth. We've called the vet for help during birth before and had him walk us through things, but this is the first time the vet had to come help. The signs of first stage labor were absent, masked, or not observed. We suspect Chloe was mistaking labor pains for hunger pains and frantically eating to make them go away. The first sign of labor Pam had was a foot sticking out without a nose. Initial signs pointed to a possible breech birth so Pam called the vet. By the time the vet actually arrived, Pam had located the head and probably didn't need the vet. There is no way she could have known that when she called the vet. With me at work and the vet at least thirty minutes away, she had to call first.
Cathy said...
What a gorgeous cria! Congrats to all!
Thank you Cathy.
jenifleur said...
Whew. I was getting worried. What a beautiful color. I'm assuming mom and cria are well and I'm doing the happy dance here for you!
Thanks Jen. We'd be doing the happy dance, too, if we weren't so tired.
Laurie said...
Congratulations! She is a beauty. I've clicked and clicked and clicked on bloglines and FINALLY the cria is here.
Thank you Laurie. While it's not quite clicking bloglines, we've been
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Let me see. Ros is rose, Fiona is wine, Cailin is girl, Liath is grey, Airgead is silver (although it refers more to silver as in money as opposed to the color or metal)
Of the combinations, I think I like Ros Cailin, or Rose Girl. Not too exotic, American tongues shouldn't have too many problems with it, and it sounds pretty and girly. It's Irish Gaelic, by the way.
Since she likes to dance - how about Dancing Cria or Dancer or Dancing Girl
Grey Dancer
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