Well, Thursday (January 6th, 2011) me and one of my sisters was loading hay. When we where done loading hay, my sister went to let the girls (does, ewes and the llama) out to pasture and she saw a foot sticking out of the llama!! Yikes! Our male llama left about 11 months ago, so he must've bred her right before he left! This was our first llama birth, but thankfully my sister read a fair amount online about llama births (and we have attended a TON of other animal births). She pushed his head and front feet out, and she let my sister come over and clean his nose off so he could breath. A few minutes later, she pushed the rest of him out. Normally the llama doesn't like us near her very much at all (unless we are feeding her grain!), but she let my sis clean him off and make him a bed of hay, because he was flopping *everywhere* and getting covered in dirt, which was kind of freaking us out a little!! Thankfully, my sister stayed pretty calm tho, because word had spread and several neighbors had come over to watch :)! Whenever we have an animal birth we often want to pull it out once the head has been there for a little bit. Llamas don't lick their babies (crias), so it was good that she let my sister help. Oh, yeah its a boy!
Here are some pictures of the birth ~
~ Haleluyah
