A new baby llama was born on the farm last week. It is a girl. No name for it yet. She sure is cute!
New Baby Llama
Time-Lapses of Driving to Newberg, Llamas, and Chickens
Today I went up to Newberg to train some llamas on the farm. On the way up I took some time-lapse images of the drive. It turned out okay but it would be much better if I could take pictures more frequently than once a minute. My Canon S60 can only do one-per-minute intervals without being driven by a computer. Maybe someday I’ll buy a new dSLR that is more versatile.
On the farm I setup a time-lapse of some llamas grazing.
The chickens were also interesting. My camera doesn’t have the easiest of manual focusing options. Hence why you get to see the gate in focus and the chickens blurry in the background.
Llama Llove
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!