It's finally starting to look like a real pasture!

I have to say thanks to my wonderful hubby for all the hard work he has put into getting our barn ready for our newest boys. He spent almost every night and all day on weekends for the past few weeks expanding our pasture area by putting up fence and putting in another pen so that we can actually have enough room for more alpacas...which will be coming home this weekend!

He even used an idea given to him by 4K Alpacas and built a brand new hay dispenser for the boys to eat from. While the boys were much more eager to get to the grass on the new side, they did take time to stop and nibble out of the new dispenser.

Everyone is looking forward to getting Jupiter and Elijah home. Elijah is our first Suri, it's going to be fun learning about the differences between Huacaya and Suri's. We were really hoping that we would be able to get all three of our new alpacas home, but Cyclone, another Suri, is just not ready to leave his mommy yet. This also means that we will not be able to show Cyclone at the National show in May, but hopefully he will grow enough that we can get him home and training for some fall shows.

...and so it begins...

As of today we now have the boys at our farm full time. It has taken much longer to get put together than originally thought. As we went along though we realized some things we had not originally worked into the plan. The biggest issue being grass that could cause health issues with the alpacas.

It was an interesting trip yesterday as for the second time we had to load and unload alpacas from the truck. It was really interesting to watch them as they really took time checking out the new area we had for them. It's not that large but appears to be plenty for 3, especially once our grass gets growing a bit better. They did well though in getting adjusted, meeting new people and getting used to an area with more traffic than they may have been used to.

Today is a day of getting a bit more of the things we need to have such as grain. It will also be a day to make sure that the adjustment is going ok. It was nice to see that they had moved to the barn overnight since yesterday they didn't appear to want to go in there at all.

I want send my thanks out to Bret and Erica at Willow Ridge for taking care of our boys and helping us out with learning how to care for them, set up many things at our area and being there to help us when needed.