Tuesday, February 3, 2009
BABY KISSY
This is our youngest Llama, Kissy. She is a very special girl indeed. Kissy's mom Angel rejected her at birth. And when this happens the baby is known as a bottle fed baby or in Kissy's case a sippycup baby. When she was born we didn't have a bottle to feed her from, so I looked through my cupboards and found one of those sippy cups that comes with the plug in it and she took to that like crazy!! When she was a newborn I was feeding her five to six times a day, a few ounces at a time of goats milk. Eventually this was cut back to four times then three times for a while then eventually down to one time. Statistically Kissy should not have made it. We came close to losing her when she was a week old or so. Colostrom from their mom is so critical to have. It provides them with the antibodies they need. Unfortunately we were unable to get any from her mom. We were able to get some sheep colostrum from a neighbor in the first twenty four hours of her life. This is the critical window to get the colostrum into a llama. Kissy will be two in July, 2009. And as you can see in the two photos above her baby picture, she has turned into a beauty!! Kissy is a very sociable girl and loves to give strangers her special kisses.
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