Help ! caring for Baby Llama......Cute Pics added

[Bare bottom farm]

OH his a looker!! very nice.....

 

[hottexaschick]

So cute!

 

[HennyJenny]

That is the most adorable thing I have ever seen! Do you think my husband would notice if I put one in my chicken coop?

 

[spectrumranch]

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Depends on what you are feeding now. We feed a mix of horse feed, cracked corn, oats, beet pulp to ours. We have several mom's and babies in one pen which get a 5 gallon bucket of grain each day & unlimited alfalfa grass mix hay, but we are also alot colder here too.

We normally wean between 5 and 6 months.

The babies will/should be eating grain with the mother's well before they are weaned.

We do not halter train or work with the babies until a week after they are weaned. We also do not hug or handle the babies alot- babies that are imprinted on humans before 6 months old- can develop some bad habits towards people. So we let mom raise the baby and the baby grows up knowing it's a llama.

Randy www.spectrumranch.net or www.sosranch.net

 

[lemurchaser]

All I know is you don't handle them too much. If you do they lose their boundaries and become dangerous to humans. It's called berserk llama syndrome ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserk_llama_syndrome ).

Enjoy your cute little baby there. He's adorable.

 

[chickenzoo]

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Depends on what you are feeding now. We feed a mix of horse feed, cracked corn, oats, beet pulp to ours. We have several mom's and babies in one pen which get a 5 gallon bucket of grain each day & unlimited alfalfa grass mix hay, but we are also alot colder here too.

We normally wean between 5 and 6 months.

The babies will/should be eating grain with the mother's well before they are weaned.

We do not halter train or work with the babies until a week after they are weaned. We also do not hug or handle the babies alot- babies that are imprinted on humans before 6 months old- can develop some bad habits towards people. So we let mom raise the baby and the baby grows up knowing it's a llama.

Randy www.spectrumranch.net or www.sosranch.net

Great. I feed mine a mix of horse pellets and sweet feed aswell as Coastal hay. I believe my friend feeds her's sweet feed and Coastal hay. So in a way and time frame it is like weaning a colt, except you handle a colt more.... correct. I have plenty of experience in the horse area.

 

[TMNTCkins]

Very cute....

 

[chickenzoo]

I thought about calling him Tux, since he looks like he's wearing one. We'll see if he keeps his black coat, as I hear it is rarer to have a black Llama.

 

[BellLisamo]

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW NAME HIM KUSCO!!!!!! From the Emperors New Groove!!!!

 

[katrinag]

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THIS IS VERY TRUE. We have this problem with the llama that is here on the farm. (he is not mine he's my Aunt's) Buck's mom (name of the llama) mom died when he was hrs old and was raised by humans. Then my Aunt got him and treated him like a baby. He has VERY nasty habbits. If you bend over he will try to knock you over. Get's in your face, and invades you space. Trys to jump on you if your in the pasture. I now carry a hunk of 4x4 with me till I can get him locked in a pen to do chores.

Let mom raise him. Make sure to castrate.