DMAR Alpaca and Maremma Blog

DMAR Royal Knight: ARI# 30425811      1/2 Interest Price: $5000

 RK is a full Peruvian grandson of Royal Fawn. Bloodline also includes Caligula and Augusto. RK is a typey alpaca. RK is just about to turn 2 and start his breeding career.

DOB: Dec. 1, 2007

Sire: 105 Peruvian Royal Sun (now deceased)

Dam: GLA Peruvian Alexis

Color: Beige

2009 Histogram:  19.9 microns, std. dev. 3.8 microns, C of V 19.2%, mean curvature 45.0, comfort factor 98.4% 

Show Awards:

2008 NMSFAS – Reserve Color Champ & 1st Place

2009 Estes Park Fleece Show – Reserve Color Champ & 1st Place

2009 FABA Fleece Show – 1st Place

2009 NMSFAS – 2nd Place 

RK’s fiber is very dense like a berber carpet, but is baby quality fine. As you can see from the picture his fiber is full of crimp and luster.

We are looking for a partner as this male deserves to have his genetics passed on.

Financing available. Call us at 520-803-9569 or email us at info@desertmtnalpacas for more information.

DMAR Update for Week Ending 10/24/09:

Crias: To date all three crias, Domingo, Remington, and Chanel are doing great. Each of them has put on weight and getting stronger. Domingo and Remington are the best of friends and sometime next week I will move Chanel into the same stall/paddock that they are in. Already when I move the alpacas around for social time the boys are beginning to notice Chanel and chase her. It makes her nervous as she tries to get away, but when the boys are off chasing each other I see her sometimes following in suit. They are simply adorable.

Southwest Fiber Festival: Is this weekend in Amado Territory Ranch from 10 am til 4 pm. We will be taking down the store again (Tommy wants to kill me) and setting it up for the one day event. As far as alpacas we will bring Diego and Nikoli. Diego is beautiful and super friendly, whereas Nikoli is very laid back and a real eye catcher with his dark head and white face. Everyone is always wanting to take pictures of him.

ABR Fall Festival Alpaca Show: The show is held on Nov. 7th & 8th in Lovett, CO. This will be our 2nd time attending this show, but the first time in the new venue. We will be taking Princess, Dominique, Royal Knight, Armani, Versace, Magnum, and Valentino. Look out Colorado here we come. I’ll also be entering in fleeces for Royal Knight, Armani, and White Russian.

November Birthings: Mother and daughter, Alexis and Electra, are both due in November only 4 days apart. The sire is the same for both which is Snowmass Incan Emperor. I am so excited to see what we get from these pairings.

Michelle Rose: Is doing well. She is acting more like a youngster these days than ever before. She is pronking around and today I saw her go up on her hind legs trying to chest butt an unwilling participant. Well, she is in good spirits doing everything an alpaca should do. However, her lymph nodes still don’t seem any smaller. Time will tell if Michelle will ever be well enough to give us another cria. For now I just thrilled that she is feeling good enough to be playing.

So much to do with so little time, especially since I am back in school which means plenty of papers to be written. Yuck, but a busy bee is what I am.

Hello DMAR Chane’l:

DMAR Chane’l was born at 7:12 PM on October 14th. She’s a big girl weighing in at 22 lbs (of course she had on a sweater and a cria coat at weigh in). I’m not really sure of her color yet. She will either turn into a light fawn or will be a pattern of white and light fawn. On the left side of her belly she has a very distinct brown marking. Strange as neither her dam or her sire are patterned. No matter as she is a beautiful female who is alert and strong.

DMAR Athena is the mother. I could tell all day yesterday she was acting off. I thought for sure she would have the cria mid day, but the hours kept ticking by. By dinner time I knew she really wasn’t ok when she didn’t show up to the feeder. Although she graciously ate the grain from the bin I was holding for her.

When Tommy got home I told him about the way Athena was acting. This was like a deja vu with Shasta. I told him to be prepared for another night birth. Sure enough about 15 minutes later I was calling for him. I heard Athena get up and looked at the spot she had been laying and it was wet. Her water had broken. Another half hour went by and then Athena was actively pushing. Now I know you probably have heard that alpacas have their crias while standing, but Athena decided that she wasn’t going to listen and literally had hers laying down. There was no complications and within 12 minutes of the nose appearing I announced it was a girl.

Tom went to work on drying off the cria with a hair dryer while I wiped vigorously with a towel. We weren’t going to let this cria get hypothermia like our last cria, Remington. After she was dry on went the sweater and cria coat. Chane’l was happy to be able to let loose and it took her no time to get to her feet. We got her over by mom and the nursing began. She is definitely a beauty.

This is DMAR Athena’s second cria. She is a great mom and has plenty of milk. Athena is very attentive towards her cria. Athena is a 2x blue ribbon winner and 1x reserve color champion. Athena is for sale for $14,000. She comes with a free breeding to any one of DMAR fully owned herdsires. Click Here to see more information on Athena.

Sire of Chane’l is HRAZ Lock & Load. This is Lock & Load’s fourth cria to hit the ground and I have to say that each of them is beautiful. So far he is exactly 50/50 with 2 boys and 2 girls. His first offspring, DMAR Magnum, just won Reserve Color Champion at his very first show. Lock & Load is available for breeding. Click Here to view more information on Lock & Load.

DMAR Update for Week Ending 10/11/09:

Patagonia Fall Festival: Is this Friday thru Sunday in Patagonia Park, AZ. There will be plenty of vendors plus us. We’re all packed up and ready to head on over to Patagonia this afternoon to set up. We have all your alpaca needs from rovings to finished products like sweaters, coats, hats, etc., etc. Come on out and say hello. It’s never too soon to start your holiday shopping!

Michelle-Rose: Michelle is living with her valley fever. Her last titer showed that she had not improved, but did not worsen either. Her lymph nodes are still quite swollen, however the good news is that her white blood count was down to 23,000 from the high of 34,000. She is making some improvement. As far as appearance goes Michelle now weighs 155.8 up from her low time low of 133. We would love to see Michelle at her average weight of 165 or better yet at 175. Remember that Michelle is a tall girl so she really should be heavier than most. Also, Michelle is no longer on free feed and no longer has her own stall. Well we needed the room since our fall crias have already started to hit the ground. On a good note Michelle is holding her own and eating her portion of the food. No more dilly dallying around. Also, Michelle seems to like the company. I think she feels more and more like a healthy alpaca. Overall, Michelle appears to be as happy and healthy as can be while living with her valley fever and taking her meds 2x per day.

Athena and Cria Watch: Today is day 345 on our cria watch with Athena. As I stare at the tv monitor in my bedroom I can see she has no plans on having the cria today. She is eating well and laying around a lot. Last pregnancy she didn’t birth until day 372. I’m just hoping she will have this cria in the same year she got pregnant. The cria is another one from HRAZ Lock & Load. We so look forward to this baby as Athena is Kaitlyn Rose’s much improved daughter and it was Kaitlyn’s and Lock & Load’s son, Magnum, who just recently won reserve color champ at the NMSFAS.