Despite telling everyone that spring is here...last night the temperature dropped and this morning there was snow above 3500 feet.



It came as quite a shock to the system and the warm winter clothes has to be hastily recovered from the chest in the boot room, where they spend their summer vacation.

Outside the alpacas looked relieved being almost in full fleece the recent temperatures of around 80 degrees had been proving very warm. So the overnight icy blast was a pleasant relief.

Now that the spring grass is underway they are just not eating enough of their feed supplements (grain) so I need to think about restricting their access to the spring grass somewhat.

We also managed to persuade Camilla that her rabbit would be much happier outside now that spring was here and the sun shining.....so we had to cobble together a kind of hutch to hold her rabbit cage. We just used whatever scrap was lying around and I don't expect it will win any design awards but it is nothing if not functional.



I am responsible for vet check of alpacas at the forthcoming alpaca show AlpacaMania 2007 so I have been busy today exploring the world of digital thermometers and how practical it would be to use them with alpacas at vet check....no one appears to know so I plan to conduct a small trial on my own alpacas to test the accuracy of the thermometer and its practicality....do alpacas really hate having things pocked into their ears?

Adrian Stewart - click here to go to Mulberry Alpacas