New Pictures

Well my lettuce garden was doing great until Tuesday night.  I got home and went out front to check on it.  All the good, healthy one were chewed to the ground!  I doubt they'll come up again before the cold.  Lessons learned about country living.  Unfortunately I only got a picture of the eaten Lettuce. LOL

I plucked Lily the other morning, it was coming out in handfuls.  Her undercoat is very dark and very shiney.  She is ratty looking with some long hair and some short but her coloring is beautiful. 

We are preparing to expand our herd with the red buck and the chinchilla doe.  We'll be getting the English baby and Princess' babies next month.  I am so excited to expand the herd.  Cathy (at Beacon Bend Alapacas) and I are going to get together and knit and spin with each other.  She's going to teach me how to make hats and spin.  I can't wait to use Lily's fiber in a project this winter.  Princess' fiber is also coming in (after being plucked a few weeks ago) and it is lovely- The fiber has a reddish tint to it and a creamy tint.  Beautiful.  Cathy was showing me her "bands" on her coat- She is considered a wide band coloring. 

This week I took a crash course in color genetics (failed the test horribly) but learned a lot about the color genetics of the rabbits.  Betty Chu has a website with a color genetics page, full of information and examples.  Cathy had me figure out my new English tort baby's genetics and I got them right! 

I still have to come up with names for the red buck and the English baby.  (any ideas?)