Yesterday I went up to my parents llama ranch to help do some toenail trimming, weighing, and training.
Webster is a funny-looking llama. He looks even funnier when he blinks from a flash.
Webster and Goddard, two of our retired packers.
Poofy hanging out at the top of the hay stack.
My dad trimming the toenails on a llama. After the first few animals, he handed over the clippers to me and let me get to work. We did about 15 or so animals over the course of the day.
Poofy kept getting underfoot. She’s lucky that none of the llamas stepped on her!
Poofy’s favorite position.
One of the tasks of the day was to re-breed one of the llamas with our stud. She had been bred several weeks ago but it evidently didn’t result in pregnancy. Thus, we put her back in with the stud and let them get down to business.
Yes, male llamas really do make that orgling sound when they are breeding. Llamas are animals of few words but when they speak, they have very choice statements.
Lots of llamas!