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12th Saturday January Alana, Emmah and Samantha holding Poetry at the Kaikohe A & P Show. |
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Llama Lookout Icing on the Cake (Pet name Candy) Girl Born 4:10 p.m. 12th January Gestation 337 days Mother MFLP Brown Sugar Father Bellbird Java
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Llama Lookout Humbug (black-and-white striped lolly) Male 9 kgs 3.30pm 21/01/2008 Mother MFLP Sweet Georgia Brown Father Bellbird Java |
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22nd February Meeting new and old friends. We said goodbye to Kathy and Terry Ross who are back over to California for the next six months and hello to new friends Mike, Amber and Ediza Rose Morris who have come to stay for three weeks.
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Leap Year Cria Arrived 29th
February Read about her arrival. |
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8th March Out driving Rangemore Jos West, for the first time in a number of years. This was Amber and Ediza's practice run, as a few days later we delivered a birthday present to a friend who is a couple of kilometres down the road who was celebrating her 70th birthday.
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9th March Tauranga Bay Amber and Ediza Rose enjoy the company of Chocolate. This was a training exercise and the first outing for the new recruit. |
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We had a surprise on Saturday, I had Honey marked down as last mating on the fourth of March so had given up on her when nothing happened and kept pointing out to her she was just a fat slob. Obviously I missed writing down her last mating. Rangemore Lhasa Maestro 23rd March Male Pinelands Honey Homestead Musicman 10 kilos 12 o'clock Lhasa is the traditional capital of Tibet and also the traditional seat of the Dalai Lama. |
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21st March
Tracy feeding Candy, she is now drinking one litre in the morning and one litre at night. We will keep feeding her until she is the least five months old.
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26th April
Our wonderful friend and Vice President of the Llama Association Penny King took us on a lake and beach walk as part of NZLA AGM weekend. Penny runs a llama trekking business from her properly Karma Llamas in the Waitakere's.
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We were very proud of boys we had bred, Rangemore Yogi Bear was impeccably behaved for his owner Chris Angliss. |
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And Rangemore Aslan the Great who had only had basic training when he left last year was superbly behaved and seemed to thoroughly enjoy the experience. So thank you Chris for the good work you have done on these boys. |
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29th May We helped friends with the gelding of five alpacas and one llama by our veterinarian Roger Barnard. |
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3rd June I know you shouldn't have favourites but Xquisite is not only the most beautiful girl she has the kindest soul, gentle and sweet. |
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6th July John Fleming holding Sosimo. A small group of us meet at Chris and Brian's place in Ngunguru for a herd health maintenance day. We set up the scales in the stables and weighed the llamas to get an accurate measure on the dose needed. Penny King came up from Auckland and acted as vet assistant while Peter Webster administered the drugs (Ivomec and 5in1 vaccination), he also cut any necessary toenails. The six llamas and three guanacos were quickly done, the job was easy with the owners simply holding their animals. Unfortunately the weather was shocking and we couldn't take them for a walk, hopefully next time. |
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