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Lovarchist Farming Chronicles
A BLOG BY PEGASUS
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Tattoo/HairBleach OR New Kids On The Farm ?
Learning To Harness The Power of Camelids
Geo of Tuolomne City taught us some methods of harnessing majestic llamas,
with techniques that can be used with cute alpacas too.
Here you see Tom Spiritbringer quickly scooping the halter onto the llama's face...
...and swiftly fastening the latch up high on the neck of the critter.
First Geo showed Pegasus & Unicorn how to catch the youngest, tiniest llama--a mere crea...
... and then, after weighing the crea,
Unicorn unharnesses an adult in front of the crea
just so the they can learn how nice it is to be handled by a Unicorn-human.
Special thanx to Kimberly Hunter for shooting these images for us.
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How Many Kids Will That Goat Make?
Onya recently kidded again--these are the 4th & 5th
offspring she's made, and the 3rd & 4th of Ricardocito
Because the births of 18 March were quite close
to the Spring Equinox, and because last year
Ricardocito's work of inseminating Onya
produced two male kids
and this year's mating produced two females,
it made sense to name the "girls" Equi & Nox.
These first three photographs of the three goats
were shot when the kids were only
24-hours post-utero. Onya pushed them out without
as much terrible pain that she had exhibited with her first kidding 2 years ago with Snow.
The second three photos are from three weeks later,
just so you can see how big the kids grow in 3 weeks.
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Unicorn is a contemplative goatherd:
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A proud mamma-goat, a happy goatherd, 2 delighted kids:
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Whenever possible, volunteers and long-term
farm community members like to hang out with
the baby goats, and sometimes the dairy staff (the "non-mamma-goat" goats).
As you might recall, goats are herd animals,
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Unicorn is with the gentle baby goat named Nox:
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2 goofy goats, one copying the other:
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Who Do You Think Got a New Tattoo?
Inspired by the kidding, the Chearcus got re-decorated:
Here's a close-up of the new image from Stellaluna of three baby birds and a baby fruit bat.
Stellaluna For President!
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