This document describes the growth and development of an alpaca named Adagia from birth through two years old. It provides photos and details about her appearance, abilities, and milestones at various ages, including when she was hours old, drying off, running around at days and weeks old, weaned at five months, halter trained and showing at six months, fully fleeced and shorn at eleven months, and ready to be bred at twenty-one months old. The document is copyrighted by Melinda Cook and Trueheart Alpacas, LLC.

1. See How They Grow:
Adagia
That's
Me!
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2. July 17, 2007: Hours Old
Still a Bit Damp Copyright 2009 Melinda Cook, Trueheart Alpacas, LLC

3. July 18, 2007: One Day Old
Dried off and Getting Around
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4. July 20, 2007: Three Days Old
Alert, Figuring Out the Legs
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5. July 26, 2007: Nine Days Old
Figured the Legs out, Running All Over
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6. August 10, 2007: Twenty-four Days Old
Independent, roughhousing with other crias
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7. September 7, 2007: Fifty-two Days Old
Bonded with another cria
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8. December 19, 2007: Five months old
Over 70 lbs. And weaned
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9. February 8, 2008: Six and a half months old
Halter trained and Ready for the First Show
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10. March 9, 2008: Seven and a half months old
First show
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11. April 16, 2008: Nine months old
Full Fleece, starting to drag down
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12. June 11, 2008: Eleven months old
Full Fleece, day before shearing
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13. June 15, 2008: Eleven months old
Freshly shorn
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14. April 25, 2009: Twenty-one months old
All grown up, 130 lbs and ready to be bred
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