Here's Moonbeam!
After our recent run of boy crias we were starting to wonder if we would have any girl crias this cria season. On Tuesday June 23, Ivanna answered that question for us when she delivered a beautiful white female cria – finally a girl!
Ivanna’s little girl has bright shiny white fleece with lots of little bundles and she looks to have good fiber coverage all the way to her toes.
We didn’t get to see Ivanna’s cria being born as she was already delivered and sitting sternal when we went to check on the girls first thing in the morning. I think our girls are being extra smart this year delivering their babies early in the day before the heat hits us. With temperatures in the high 90’s to 100’s the days have been hot and now we have had some rain there is some humidity added in to the mix creating a higher heat index. Usually our girls are pretty predictable in delivering their crias between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., but this year we have now had two of the girls deliver early in the morning when the air is still cool.
Ivanna’s little cria was none the worse for her unsupervised delivery, she was quick to get up on her feet and she was hungry! We put Ivanna and her cria in a pen in the shade to allow them time to bond and then continued with our chores.
I like to think that all of our crias are special, but this little female cria is extra special. Not just because she is our only female cria this year, but also because she is the last cria from our herdsire Moonie who passed away in April. Moonie only has four offspring, three of which are males (including our Little Man), so our little girl will be the only female Moonie offspring and I suspect she will not be going far from our farm.
It wasn’t hard to name our new little girl, I wanted to include something in her name that would reference Moonie and with her bright white fleece a name immediately sprung to mind. So say hello to Windrush Moonbeam our extra special little girl.
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