Thursday, December 18, 2008

The Herd

This is Birch Tree! She is a little doe from Ethan's third litter this year. She is a fawn, like Ethan. You can identify this color by a light orange body color with white ears, nose, eye rings, and under body.
Here, Winny is being inquisitive about my camera! She followed me all around to see what I was doing and let me catch and pet her while I was visiting.

Bella is teaching Winny about neck-wrestling. Usually two males will neck-wrestle to see who is dominant. It involves biting of each other's legs and underside and then chasing each other around. May and Bella did it when they were younger and in nice cold weather! Today Bella was playing in this fashion with Winny. First she put her ears back and "attacked"!

Winny pulled back: "Ugh! Bella! What are you doing?"
"Hey, get away from my feet!""Mom! Tell Bella to stop!"
"Don't come to me! You tell her to stop!""All right! I'll get you now!""Oh yeah?""I don't know if I like this game any more." *sulks*"Hmm. Is she going to keep going?"
"Does this mean we're at a truce?""For now!"
Arethusa watches all this from the hill, grinning.
What a fun winter day! The llamas love the cold weather because it means they can play!