DOING THE WILD ALPACA DANCE

Since Little Tip is now about 5 weeks old it was time to breed Mama Caitlin again. We decided to breed her to Artemus. Keep in mind that this is the first time we have done this.

Kevin leads Artemus over, luckily, I had the brilliant idea to leave his halter on. Kevin let him loose in the pasture and Artie turned into a Wild Man. He went after everyone but was completely ignoring the only one who wasn't preggers. Of course, Chloe and Drizella, who are pregnant were majorly pissed off. Spit was flying everywhere. Artie was only thinking with his little head so he wasn't the slightest bit effected by the spitting. It was amazing that he could be mounted on the back of a running female and still keep up with his hind legs only. Kevin finally caught him by the halter and led him over to Caitlin. She being the Superstar that she is, did exactly what she needed to do.

It is certainly interesting to watch. She just kushes and he does all of the work and makes some really funny noises the whole time. Apparently, the noises a male makes causes the female to ovulate. He went to town for a good 30 minutes, he rolled off one time and got right back on. He was finally done and Kevin led him back over. Boy was he panting, he promptly put both of this front feet in his water bucket to cool off.

I think these pics are funny, nothing like having an audience when being all romantical. Notice little Tip was all over the place. He was sticking his nose in all kinds of places wondering what the big guy was doing to Mom.