Hey, hey, finally: I thought this morning when I read the happy news on Facebook that the 2nd alpaca was born in the animal park. I was expecting it last week anyway. And that was true, it was born Tuesday 17 July. But after last month's experience, the caregivers kept it quiet for a while. With this mare the birth did not go without problems. But this time the problem was not with the foal, but with the mother. First, the afterbirth did not want to come, and then she had the problem that the uterus came out. My daughter told me that this is also common in sheep. During her internship at a sheep farmer she experienced it several times.

But luckily, mother and daughter are now walking healthy and well in the meadow with the fallow deer. Not yet near the stallion, because she wanted to cover her immediately again. Because an alpaca has about a year's gestation period.

It's a beautiful foal, very curious, because it came to me at an unguarded moment to see what kind of strange creature I was. They don't let themselves be stroked and if you don't have something delicious you can't get too close. (Mothers loves apples very much told the animal carer.) They are very friendly and quiet.

Of course there was much more to see and because there were no other visitors I got a tour.

Just this morning there was also a young fallow deer discovered. It was a bit of a search, but indeed it was hidden in the middle of the grass. I was able to take a picture without too much backlight, when it felt that I was getting too close and spurted through it.

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