Today was a day of ranch work.  We spent time medicating our alpacas who are still getting over diarrhea from the TxOLAN Alpaca Spectacular a couple weeks ago.  The diarrhea is working it’s way through our herd and now all but about three have had it.  Some had it worse than others and some only showed symptoms for a day or so. 

We also spent about one and a half hours watering the compost piles.  We haven’t had rain in such a long time that the piles have dried up.  When they dry too much, the natural composting doesn’t occur.  They are sufficiently wetted now and hopefully in the next couple of cool mornings we’ll be able to see them steaming!!!  We are hoping to use that compost this spring when we plant our vegetable garden.

We also set the sprinklers in the pastures again in hopes of getting the native grass to grow and preparing the pastures to be seeded once the threat of freeze is over, which is usually in mid March.  It’s amazing how one day of watering brings out those prized little sprigs of green grass.  

Happy Pastures – little grasses starting to grow~!