Finally, shearing is done, fleece samples for shows are all tucked into their bags, and breeding is done down to spit tests. So today we rest. Not exactly, we spent all the cooler morning hours cleaning pens and water buckets.
As for spit tests, a female alpaca can tell if she is pregnant within about 5-7 days after breeding. If you expose her to the stud after this time period she should spit at the stud, thus called the spit off.
Although many people use ultrasounds for pregnancy testing we seem to have excellent results from spit offs.
For the most part this weekend we get to sit back and watch all our beautiful animals
