Burning Ambitions!

I was up and about before 6am this morning. The plan was to have a lovely day walking with friends in the Lake District National Park. The alpaca girls were all fed by 6.30 and were looking very bemused; “She’s too early” I could hear them say!

By 8am I was just about ready, so a quick check of my e mails. That’s when the plans went downhill. A message from UPS: IgG testing kit on route and needs refrigerating on receipt. Oh well at least it did arrive at 1.30pm.

I had obviously confused the girls because when I went back out again they all came back in for their morning feed. Smart enough to recognise that I was too early, but not clever enough to remember that they had already eaten!

As I had had such an early start I decided to do some spring cleaning. All the loose old hay from the barn was the start of a bonfire that lasted most of the day. I just love lighting fires. I think it is in my genes as I remember my Gran always having a bonfire on the go. Some of the old intact bales I have kept, as they make good windbreaks for any cria needing to be under the heat lamp.

All the water troughs have been cleaned. I have noticed a lot of feet in them in the warm weather so they won’t be clean for long. I have also been doing quite a bit of alpaca watching in the sunshine. The birthing paddock has some garden benches in there, so it is just too tempting

From left: Honario, Camilla and Holly checking out the clean water trough.