Ready for Winter

We have been trying to get ready for winter with the Alpacas. One of the projects that we have been planning for is putting in automatic waters. They arrived here about a month ago but the guy who was going to put them in has been very busy. We have called him every couple of days explaining to him how we are carrying water now that the hose is frozen. It took a number of calls before he finally put us to the top of his list. On Tuesday he began the process of putting them in. We are so excited. This will make winter so much easier and I think it will be great for the Alpacas having fresh water when they drink.

The cria's are growing so fast and are so independent. Shooting Star has decided that he no longer wants to be treated like a little alpaca. He is far to old for that and has declared his independence. His way of doing that is taking charge of the other little boys in the group and making sure that they are following his lead. Most of the time that means playing when he says play. Ok, its not too hard to get them to go along but the mothers are not wild about the idea that these boys are old enough to go out on their own.