Introducing SpinSanity of Wonder

Today we welcomed the first alpaca to be born on the farm. A beautiful fawn male, SpinSanity of Wonder. His dam is CAR Sprite and his sire is Enchantment's Luceros.









We weren't expecting our new bundle of joy today. His due date wasn't supposed to be for another 10 days. As a matter of fact, I didn't even have my cria kit here. I have some stuff but I had just placed an order to get the nitty gritty of the supplies needed. YIKES!

I had been out in the barn all morning cleaning up poo and such when I headed back into the house around 11am. Hubby came in around 12pm so we could eat lunch. He went back out around 1pm, which is when he discovered a little cria standing next to Sprite. From there it was screaming at the top of his lungs to get my attention in the house.












I grabbed the cell and the camera and out the door I ran. I called my friend, Stephani from Tomorrow Farm to get her to come over since she has had a couple of cria already. We determined it was a boy and she brought me a cria coat since I didn't have one. By the way, she makes beautiful cria coats so if you need one, she's the lady to see.

Well, I found the placenta and all looked good so we let dam and cria bond a bit then I dipped his umbilical chord. Once he was dry, I weighed him. 13lbs 7oz.








I did make one other quick call. The call was to my friend Shannon. I had told Shannon that I wanted to name a cria after her. Didn't know when but I would. Well, this cria had SpinSanity written all over him. Honestly, I can tell already that a spinner is going to fall in love with his fiber.











Now why would I name a cria after a friend. Well, first of all, she is awesome! More importantly, it's Shannon that gave me my first drop spindle and taught me how to use it. Shannon who went with me to buy my first spinning wheel and she is the lady who has been guiding me through the process of learning the in's and out's of fiber.








SpinSanity is a true fiber artist. She makes the loveliest spindles and takes the time to teach you, if you really are interested. I can't thank her enough for all the help she has giving me so far and since I'm not having anymore kids the best I could do was name an alpaca after her. So hopefully my little SpinSanity will live up to the name and be a phenominal herdsire in the future like his namesake is at being a fiber artist!






So, Shannon and her kids came over and we just watched in awe as SpinSanity and Sprite bonded. We watched him nurse and even take his first poo. He ran and jumped and even sunbathed for us.


Yet another birth I have missed. I now have two cria and yet to see a live birth. YIKES!








So now I am going to relax and sit back and enjoy the newest Wonder Boy to the farm.