Danny Runs Everywhere!

We can really tell that Danny is feeling and doing much better. Whatever was bothering him has most definitely cleared up. He is eating everything and running everywhere. Snow is just starting to melt here. But watching him run around the indoor arena today made me very hopeful that soon he will be able to go outside and visit with some of his relatives. One of our smaller fields has our ewes and lambs and llama/alpaca geldings and he will probably go and visit in there for awhile. I'ld like to see what he could do running around outside.

We'll probably wait until until Spring is officially here in another couple months, but his behaviour the past few days have made me very hopeful!

You can really tell in this picture the way his colour is delineated. We don't normally shear our babies until after their first birthday, so he won't be sheared until Spring 2009, but I am already looking at his fiber and thinking of things we could make out of that great fibre and grey colour. We have a number of white llamas/alpacas, a multitude of browns and fawn/rose coloured and even a few dark brown/black colours, but he is our first grey. So Danny is exciting for us on a number of fronts.

Next week we are going to start doing some serious halter training with him. That will make it safer for him and easier for us to move him around the ranch. That way we can safely lead him outside to play. If it goes well I'll take more photos!