Our first fully home produced cria arrived this afternoon.

Nia has been looking like she was getting ready for about a week now. She fooled us by going off the boil but today (1 day over due date) she was looking definitely uncomfortable. Lots of rolling and shuffling about. Stand up, move over a bit sit down again. Cush, then roll on one side. Throw in a bit of grazing and…

Finally, just as I was walking out the door to a meeting, I made one last check and there she stood all stiff and awkward with her tail lifted up. Here it comes at last.

 

Things then progressed nicely – see photo album below and use right and left arrows at edge of each picture to step through the. The word ‘pictures’ at top right of the photo will give you a row of thumbnails to choose from [smooth=id:5;]