One Becomes Two

For some time now we've been running our camels as one group. With the two bulls getting older (2 & 3), larger and more precocious, and with the winter breeding phase nearing, we recently transitioned everyone into two herd groups.

It was a gradual transition, over about a week, so as to minimize their concerns over the new changes and to reduce the chances of accidents.

In our lower pasture we now have our three year old black bull, Jelly Baba, living with Muffin, who is a mare, and the gelding, Peaceful Baba.

And in our middle pasture we have our two year old white bull, Everest, living with Google Mama, Purnimama and Delaney, who are all mares. Little HiHo lives with them too, for now. HiHo is a silver yearling bull with a huge character. We're not certain yet whether he is going to get much bigger, but right now at a little over a year old he seems to be in the "miniature camel" category.

This week we also set up a 200' X 100' arena to more formally serve our human / camel cultural integration "rituals". We have called this arena, "The Arena of Feeling Camels".

Only when, in each case, cross-species relational integration has reached a clear depth, will other types of personalized training be explored... such as, consensual ride training, trail riding, light jumping, consensual dressage, pulling, trailering... all with a view to furthering understanding, and deepening relationships, between camels (and other animals) and people.