Cria Watch

November has been a busy month as breeding and birthing season is in full swing. All the open females have been bred and field/spit tested. Everyone that is supposed to be pregnant is pregnant except for one not sure (Shakira). She is a maiden so it's hard for me to get a read on her. Shak will get a progesterone test which is a blood test that tells you that your non pregnant female is pregnant. Or, a blood test that tells you your pregnant female is not pregnant. The progesterone test will settle the debate.

We have two females that are due this week and we will see if that holds true. During breeding last year I was thinking I wanted a Thanksgiving Day cria. Now my thoughts are that might not have been so terrific a plan as I'll have the bird in the oven and food to prepare for our guests. We may just have more than one thing coming out of the oven!

Trellianna has been re-bred to Wira Cocha for a fall 2010 cria. It was a 40 minute breeding that went well so I am fairly confident she is pregnant. I will test her in 14 days to see if she spits him off.

Trellianna's Date

The weather has been great this month which enabled me to begin finishing a project I started about a year ago. We want to fence in our front yard so I dug and poured some footers last year in order to build rock columns to tie the fence into. I finally laid the block for the four columns and began facing them with stone. I am halfway through the third one so they should be all finished this week.

And finally, when the remnants of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ida passed through our region it left a beautiful rainbow on the way out. I thought it looked cool and I managed to snap a few pictures.

It was a double rainbow and you can just barely make out the second one below: