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4
Month Old Female With
Horses
I just bought
my first Llama -- a 4-month-old
female. My horses won’t
have anything to do with
her and are afraid of
her. Will they ever herd
together or will I always
need to keep them separated?
Should I buy another young
female to keep her company?
I would very much enjoy
your newsletter. I also
plan to order one of your
halters. I know very,
very little to nothing
about llamas, except they
are cute and sweet. I
bought one also because
I heard they keep coyotes
off your property.
I have a
question please. We have
a two week old male cria
that came out of his mom
extremely FRIENDLY. He
will bite our clothing
and follow us around.
He wants to come up to
everyone and he will get
very close and pull clothing
and “talks” all
the time. His mom and
dad are both very laid
back llamas. His mom has
lots of milk as he weighed
21 at birth and at two
weeks he weighs 35. He
will bite on everything,
wood, water bucket, pulls
on the blankets we have
in the barn. We have a
5 week old male cria and
a one week old female
cria. They all play. He
is VERY active and jumps
on his mom and the male
cria all the time to play.
We don’t want to do the wrong
thing with him. What advice do you
have for us.
I have just purchased
my first 3 alpacas (intact
males ages 1-3) and am
studying training/handling
methods. I have researched
the TTeam method with
Marty McGee Bennett and
John Mallon's methods.
How does your method compare
with these?
I’ve just discovered
your web site but I haven’t
found the answer to my
specific problem. I bought
an older llama as a guard
animal for our small flock
of sheep. She was a little
wild but I thought it
might just be because
she had a cria, too...
I am interested in the
relative trainability
of llamas as against alpacas?
The latter always seem
very highly-strung to
my thinking, though I’ve
had little to do with
them.
I read your article on
weaning and I like the
idea of letting "mother" do
it - this makes the most
sense. How do you
handle taking the juveniles
away to shows? Must
they be weaned first so
they aren't crying and
wondering where mother
is throughout the
whole show? I would
appreciate your advice
- I am puzzled as to what
to do.
After reading your articles
on weaning I have decided
to commit to allowing
my llamas to wean their
babies. I have 2
male crias, one 5 months
and the other 1 month.
I will geld the male who
is now 1 month old, but
would like to wait and
show the 2nd male in April. My
question is can I allow
the older male to remain
with the female herd [open
moms and daughters] while
his mother weans him? Or
do I have to move both
mom and son away from
the main herd? This
seems
drastic to me, but I do not want any
of my llamas impregnated by this male
either.
Thank you for any advice you can give
me. I've collected all your
articles and bound them--they are
invaluable as I am a newbie llama
owner.
