Mountain Valley Llamas
FOR SALE

"Anza" is a great llama and mother. Last year, she had Splenda. The year before she had Hot Stuff and also raised Elegant Pleasure. Her story is here. Anza gets along with all her girlfriends. She breeds easily, births easily, and cares for her crias easily. Her first owners enjoyed her and we have enjoyed her. We really want a good home for her.

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The amazing story of "ANZA" . . .

Anza, a llama mama, gave birth at 11:05 a.m. to a beautiful white boy with brown spots. This cria is Resero's Legacy's first baby. This is Anza's fourth beautiful cria.

Everything went beautifully. The placenta passed, the cria stood and nursed. We put the mama and cria in the paddock after a long investigative trot by the cria. Mama llama was very attentive.

At 2:00 p.m., we went into our home to get lunch. Our 13-year-old grandson, Jordan, who helped with the delivery, was famished. Not that Spike and I weren't hungry.

We all ate lunch, when we noticed a cool breeze. That's not unusual in the mountains for August 3rd. I found the cria blanket and we headed for the barn. When we arrived at the barn, I put the red blanket on the cria and Spike went to check our other pregnant girls. Anza's daughter was lieing down with a baby's head out and two feet close by. This was Beautiful Pleasure's first cria. This mama llama weighs around 400 lb. She is an ALSA Champion. Spike brought her into the back part of the barn. By 4:10 p.m., the baby girl was out and kicking. Beautiful Pleasure walked away. We brought her back and she kicked at the cria. This, too, was a Resero's Legacy baby, the second. Legacy is an ALSA Champion and won first as a 2-year-old male at ALSA Nationals. It had been a good day.

Then, the placenta did not pass and this mama llama ran from her little girl. The little girl followed but was knocked to the ground by her mama. I called Kay Sharpneck for advice. She suggested Oxytocin and putting the mama in the stanch. The Oxytocin was to help the placenta pass and bring in the milk. Our daughter, Gretchen, and I headed for our veterinarian, Dr. Brooks. It was now 7:00 p.m. He was leaving the medicine for us in the mailbox and he was off to a roping clinic. Gretchen and I got there in 15 minutes and went to the mailbox. No medicine. I called Dr. Brooks and he said it was there. We looked again, but no medicine! Gretchen and I went to the arena and picked up Dr. Brooks and went back to his office. No medicine. Dr. Brooks said, "Someone's uterus is going to be contracting." He gave us the medicine. We took Dr. Brooks back to the arena and headed home. It was now after 8:15 p.m.

We had left my husband, Spike, and grandson, Jordan, with the mamas and babies. When Gretchen and I finally arrived back at the barn, Spike and Jordan had let Anza back in the area with her daughter, Beautiful Pleasure, and her baby. Anza let the second baby nurse. Anza still had colostrum for that baby, too. The two babies were great together, and Anza accepted both.

Beautiful Pleasure's placenta had passed. We put her with her baby again but she wanted no part of her. We turned Beautiful Pleasure out with the other girls and she began eating.

Anza was feeding her two babies. She was a wonderful mother... and grandmother! The babies each gained 3/4 lb a day.