Re: [SPAM][AlpacaTalk] What's new?

 

While the slugs that carry the virus slow down, they do not die in the cold, just hole up under leaves. Which, if you alpacas are anything like mine, is a favorite snack food, particularly in winter. If you have 3 full months of below freezing, which VA doesn't, you might be safe. Give them their shots as soon as you can.

Cheers from frozen NY,

Morgen Bowers
Dreamwood Farm
www.dreamwoodfarm.com

--- In AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com, "Laura A. Roberts" <laura0554@...> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> Here in Spotsylvania, VA, we have about 20-something on the
> ground and it is still snowing lightly. We are not expecting much more
> since this storm is headed northeast.
>
> We lost power on Saturday- that was a first for us and we never
> really considered just how hard it would be to water the animals when their
> heated buckets quit working, the well pump quit because of no power, too. I
> have a gas stove and luckily, could melt snow to use the water for flushing
> toilets. We actually emptied five five gallon buckets of snow into the
> bathtub to be used for flushing.
>
> My husband took every water container we had to a friend's house
> who had a generator and we brought back 15+ gallons to water the alpacas,
> goats and chickens. Carrying it through the snow was NOT FUN.
>
>
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> The animals are alright and even the chickens are laying eggs
> ..which surprised me since their lights were off from Saturday til Tuesday.
> The Pyrs are loving the snow. That heavy thick coat came in handy! Maybe I
> will stick with Pyrs and just trim them down and keep bellies bare in the
> summer.
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>
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> I am very new to suris and our one little boy, Harvey, is
> sporting his brand new, bright orange cria coat, made by Patty! I don't
> know if he needed it or not but it sure makes me feel better that he has it
> on!
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>
> Today is shovel day and dh is plowing the driveway and lane. We
> have about a mile and a half of snow to move in order to get off this farm.
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> Btw, we ARE getting a snow blower. I don't know what we would
> have done without the Kubota tractor or the six wheeler.
>
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> Keep your fingers crossed for sunshine --- I know the melting
> snow will create mud but I am tired of freezing!
>
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> Btw, does anyone know if Meningeal worms die in the freeze?
> Mine have missed their Feb Ivomec shots.
>
>
>
> Laura Roberts
>
> R Half Pint Farm
>
> Spotsylvania, VA
>

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