[Hot Tabasco]

I thought alpacas were cold weather animals?

[hal ogen]

So what's the big deal????? It is called WINTER . The globull maniacs want you to think the "polar vortex" unprecedented, scary and caused by the Tea Party. Fools.

[The Working Man]

I thought alpacas were cold weather animals?

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They are and the rest of the herd is doing fine. This one is very small for her age (seven months), and has issues with her thyroid. So she is weaker than the others and this much colder weather than she is used to hit her hard. Her Rumen shut down and she had a body temperature of 94 degrees. Normal is 100 to 102.

We managed to get her rumen going again with lots of extra heat and warm water, supplements etc. I just took her temperature and it is 100.4. So after the temps go above freezing I’ll let her out of the heated vet stall to rejoin the herd.