Our Alpaca Herd

Nina

(b2009 sire: Top Account)

Nina was born on the 29^th May 2009 to a dam that wasn't well.  Nobody could work out exactly what was wrong with dam Isis, but little Nina was booted out three weeks premature at 6.5 kilos.  Nina thought that the tiny amount of milk that Isis was producing would be enough; wouldn't look at a bottle of goats' milk and because her dam was depressed and she was hungry all the time, she didn't play with the other cria.  After lots of medication for an ulcer, a scan of her liver and stomach diagnosed advanced cancer and within the lymph nodes. Isis died on July 13^th 2009.  Since then Nina has changed from refusing a bottle of goats' milk to being our most manageable bottle-fed baby in years.  During August 2009 she is taking over a litre of whole goats' milk a day, she doesn't care who gives her a bottle and she takes hard food out of her own special bucket in the field.  Her grandmother and mother's characters were always inquisitive, clever and bossy.  While drinking her bottle, if Nina feels that a cria is too close and might 'steal' her milk, she stops to vigorously spit them away and then continues on with her bottle. Nina is a born survivor and with her fleece characteristics should go on to great things. 

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