s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

What is that huge ball of fire that hangs in the sky? So strange, yet so warm. I think I like it.

After a cold and rainy June, followed by a cool and rainy July, we are getting some nice mid-winter weather.

Yesterday we brought all the alpaca in and gave them their bi-monthly winter injection of vitamin D. They need this, as the during the dark winter hours they don’t make enough vitamin D via UV-conversion in the skin, and get get Rickets (especially the young growing ones).

While we had them down we noticed that F4 (Phantom) had mud-rash on his feet. This is a fungal skin infection that animals can get from standing in wet and mud for weeks on end. Poor guy. Today I will get the stuff to treat his legs, and tonight we start treatment. He will hate having us muck with his feet, but it is for his own good.