Heatwave!

Our alpacas have spent most days under our big Devon hedges in the shade. Why they emerge periodically, usually when it is really hot, to eat grass and sunbathe, I do not know. This is also the time of year when they mostly play dead giving new owners hysterics.

Happily all ours have been shorn, their fleeces safely in the barn, rather than on their backs. No cria have arrived yet, the first five on the list are still mooching round the birth field.

It was pretty amazing to have a bank holiday with no rain and the same applied to the Devon County Show last week. I don’t recall a Devon County without at least one violent shower in all the years we have exhibited there. The alpacas had a fan to keep them cool and on the last day we realised we had two fans and could point one at us. Better late than never.