Lost Creek Elahn
ILR # 294159
gelding b. 4-3-2012
Lost Creek Credo x Megan Summer Socks
Elahn is 42" at the withers and has shown increasing difficulty keeping his weight under control when kept with llamas of normal metabolism, which in turn has caused us to remove him from our list of pack prospects.
Elahn's fleece is a curaca type (mixed k'ara and woolly traits) and requires yearly shearing; he does have a marginally-shedding neck and tail, which we rake out, also yearly.
We ended up placing Elahn as a goat guard, and from subsequent reports, it's clearn that Elahn has definitely found his purpose in life!
Elann or elahan is a Chinook Jargon word (originally from Salish, E-la-han), meaning aid or assistance; it also (spelled "Elan") means "oak tree" in Hebrew. Both are fitting for our Elahn, especially the former — that's what pack llamas do! Because the spelling of all Native American words comes from (often inept) phonetic approximations anyway, we've taken the liberty of altering the spelling to Elahn to help others get the pronunciation the way Elahn is used to hearing it.