Well, after an extended stay here at Pistyll Gwyn, Susan’s two lads, Dreamcatcher and Tomas have gone back home to Alpacas of Wales, 16 miles further into deepest West Wales.
From their point of view, I reckon they’ve had a great time – the chance to hang out (and more) with some lovely alpaca gals, lots of space, comfy field shelters and water troughs to climb into.
For us it has been a partial success. Dreamcatcher, who is an old hand at all this, got straight down to business with Lavender, who also knows her way around the mating pen, but poor old Tomas and Molly – they certainly didn’t turn out to be love’s young dream! After much fumbling and falling about we gave it up as a bad job – Tomas just wasn’t assertive enough, and despite spending the whole winter flirting outrageously, our Molly just didn’t want to go down.
So Tomas goes back to get a bit more experience with the local girls, and we’ll give Molly a bit more time. Maybe next month …
So now, we just sit back and wait for Lavender to do her stuff. In the meantime, the Diamond Clan aren’t too far off, so new cria shortly! Watch this space …