Painted Pines Avril, was a very special surprise. She is out of my 22 year old first alpacas Artica ( who has since passed away of a cancerous tumour) I didnt know she was pregnant till the day Avril was born. A beauty at that too, the first black and white baby from Salvadore Dali ( my first stud male) he is a proud father, she looks just like him. Avril has her mothers lovely laid back temperment, and is turning out to be another top animal for my herd. I was very lucky in getting this baby, Artica lost her last baby, the cria before that was a female that died age 6 weeks old from snake bite, and the 3 before that were all boys. So now i have her line to breed on with. She managed to feed Avril right up till 8 months, when i had to wean her to treat Artica for her tumour. Its a sad loss, as she was one of the 2 first alpacas i owned, and the very reason i have so many. Such a lovely animal. So Avril has big shoes to fill, but is doing very well to keep up so far!

Avril is currently spitting off to Chimu, so were looking forward to seeing what she has to him, hopefully due in Jan 2010.

pics before shearing 2009

after shearing