Today started with one of the more mundane but essential tasks of alpaca stewardship and that was cutting some toenails. This morning Macario and I did the nails of the boys who range is personality from those who don't even know its happening and couldn't careless. To the totally paranoid who fall to the floor and pull their feet underneath themselves as fast as possible.

I then had to answer a couple of queries that had come in over the web, one concerned with the use of Atroban on alpacas suffering from mites and one concerning which plants are poisonous to mites.

In answering the second question I discovered that tomatoes are poisonous...well at least the leaves and stalks are and for many years we thought the fruit was poisonous too...hey what sort of a day would it be if I didn't learn something new?

This afternoon I spent some time preparing for the affiliate congress conference which is in Nashville at the end of this week. While I am away for six days I will be completing the Blog remotely so it will keep going but it wont be about life at Mulberry Alpacas..

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