EDR Lamas’ Weblog

This has been an exciting week or so for EDR Lamas. First of all, the IgG for Kismet, the baby alpaca, was borderline okay, 738. That isn’t even beginning to be borderline okay for me, but my vet accepts something less than perfect [which I don't do well]. They had some plasma that I had sent over a while back for someone else to use who then decided not to use it, so we put that in her last Friday. I sent the sample out to M&M Labs in Michigan to be checked on Saturday. I didn’t hear anything on Saturday, so decided it must be okay; even if they didn’t get the results Saturday morning [and I didn't expect them to], my vet would have called me if the number was still low. It came back at 1216, as I recall, which is much better. And she is running around and having a wonderful time, gaining weight and everything. I know — I’m supposed to be putting pictures up here. I will by tomorrow or Friday evening. Tomorrow evening I am finally getting my garden set, unless it rains.

We are picking up on tours and hikes –even have a craft tour! I am now trying to figure out how to do a Tea on the Trail [without llamas because it will be in August and too hot for them to go on the trail]. It should be fun, but I’m just not sure about the best way to do it.

We’ve started advertising again, too. Josh isn’t happy with what I did because he doesn’t think it will bring people around, but if I can get them to the web site that is a start. Basically, I ask a question that we get asked a lot in the TidBits ad and then give the answer on the web site. Nothing new about that, but I think it may be okay. We’ll see.

About the visitors: this may be short because I’m getting tired. We got a call from some people who were moving from Delaware to Colorado and needed someplace to keep their animals during the day between what they expected was going to be two nights of driving. I’m not sure about the two nights of driving from Delaware the Colorado, but was more than glad to let their guys run around the front/riverside pasture since no one else is on it. The people, Olin and Becky, got here almost at noon and we put their six intact males in the front. I wasn’t concerned about fighting because the one thing that are does have is lots of green stuff! And I was right — the only one that got upset was the bluebird who was trying to protect her nest box. She finally gave up and flew into the tree until the boys quit jumping around for joy. Then she went back and all was fine. I checked on her later and she was in the area. So the boys ran around and ate, getting over their first 18 hours and ready for the rest of the trip. Olin and Becky refueled and sat in the back woods resting and getting themselves ready to go. Finally the time came, and we went down to round up the boys. This proved to be easier than I had anticipated, using the Marty McGee roping system to urge them along. We used a couple of wands to help guide them, too, but they were really easy. We got them on leads again and took everyone to the trailer. Not a problem!