Star delivers a whopper

Can you believe it, I spend hour after hour in the field, but with no one looking likely to birth I decided to nip into Morpeth for some essential supplies and then get on with some jobs at home. 

Then this evening when I went to do the evening feed run on my way to the Cambo yarn group there to my surprise was an extra black cria!  I hadn't actually realised initially, Spadicious was running round the field with a black cria I assumed was Celestial. 

After shutting the chickens in I went over to feed the girls and as Star walked past me I noticed she'd halved in size (she was enormous) and it was blatantly obvious she'd given birth.  A second glance at Spadicious's new playmate it was apparent this was Star's baby. 

A very big solid black boy, very well done Loki.  We weren't sure what we'd get from Star who is a not very consistent grey. He weighs a massive 10.21kg, thankfully despite Star being a maiden she managed to birth without any assistance.  These babies are certainly big this year.

After checking all was well and baby was feeding I headed off, albeit slightly late to the yarn club, more on that tomorrow as I need to update my birthing records before bedtime.