Add animal care docs for alpacas, horses, and poultry

New animals/ section with mobile-first emergency page (vet contacts,
symptom-to-action table, first aid steps), per-animal daily care for
alpacas (Onu/Sapphi/Phil), horses, and chickens/ducks. Capture hay
quality rules, alpaca cleaning schedule (11 AM, 8 PM), enterotoxemia
schedule, shearer contact, and Sapphi's wound protocol from group
discussions. Add natural/preventative care guide reflecting our
natural-first philosophy with clear escalation criteria. Document
the VetSet first aid kit, chore schedule, and the team-delegated
process for taking on animal-care roles.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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+---
+title: Alpacas
+description: Daily care, feeding, and health watching for our 3 alpacas
+tags:
+  - animals
+  - alpacas
+---
+
+# Alpacas
+
+We have **3 alpacas**: **Onu**, **Sapphi**, and **Phil**.
+
+> [!warning] Alpacas hide illness
+> They're prey animals — they mask symptoms until critical. **If something seems even slightly off, monitor it closely.** See [[emergency|Animal Emergency]].
+
+## Daily Routine
+
+### Cleaning Times: 11:00 AM and 8:00 PM
+
+Twice daily — pen cleaning, water refresh, hay check.
+
+### Feeding
+
+#### Hay (the main food)
+
+- **Quality:** Light **greenish** hay from **inside the bale**. Should smell **sweet and grassy**, never dusty or moldy.
+- **Outer shell** of the bale is degraded — safe as bedding but not food.
+- **Moisture:** 12-16% for large bales, up to 18% for smaller bales.
+- **Storage:** Covered, off the ground (or at least off the grass). Damp = worse than dusty.
+- **Portions:** Frequent **small bundles** from inside the bale. Don't put out too much at once — anything exposed degrades faster than it'll be eaten.
+- **Behavior check:** They should be curious and accepting of hay offers, not ravenous or aggressively competitive.
+
+#### Grain
+
+- 1 bag should last roughly **6 months** (per Jean Louis).
+- Use sparingly as supplement, not main food.
+
+#### Water
+
+- **Always available, fresh.** Camelids need unlimited fresh water.
+- Refresh during cleaning rounds (11 AM, 8 PM) at minimum.
+
+### Anyone can feed/water/fluff bedding at any time
+
+The system is flexible. If you notice it, nurture it.
+
+## Health Signs
+
+### ✅ Good signs
+
+- Staying with the herd
+- **Cud chewing** — rhythmic, relaxed, regurgitating partially digested material
+- Manure output trending normal (formed pellets)
+- Grazing fresh grass, drinking water
+- Smooth skin under fiber
+
+### ⚠️ Watch closely
+
+- Reduced manure output — isolate to monitor if needed
+- Reduced appetite (>12 hrs)
+- Crusty / thick / "elephant" skin → likely **mange / mite infestation** (treatable, ask vet)
+- Mild lameness
+
+### 🚨 Emergency — see [[emergency|Animal Emergency]]
+
+- **Self-isolation from herd** (extreme emergency sign for camelids)
+- **Colic signs** (see below)
+- **Stargazing, head tilt, neck arch, unsteady gait, leg weakness** — neurological emergency
+- Stops eating
+- No manure
+- Tooth grinding (pain, not the same as cud chewing)
+
+### Colic warning signs (call vet immediately)
+
+- Reduced/stopped eating
+- Little or no manure output
+- Repeatedly lying down and getting up
+- Restlessness, can't get comfortable
+- Tooth grinding
+- Stretched-out or hunched posture
+- Kicking at or looking at belly
+- Bloated/tight abdomen
+- No cud chewing
+- Isolation from herd
+- Weakness or depression
+
+## Annual / Periodic Care
+
+| Task | When | Notes |
+|------|------|-------|
+| **Enterotoxemia preventive** | 1×/year, beginning of Spring | 2cc subcutaneous. Last dose: **April 25, 2026** |
+| **Sel Vitaminé à l'ail** | Ongoing | Natural prevention against worms & bacterial overgrowth — see [[natural-care|Natural Care]] |
+| **Shearing (tonte)** | End June / early July | Contact: **François Meheust — 06 76 63 58 47** |
+| **Nail trimming** | White: every 3-4 months. Black: much less often | Often done at shearing. Visually apparent when needed. |
+| **Fecal exam** | Every 3-4 months | Targeted deworming based on results, not blanket treatment |
+
+## Notes from the Herd
+
+- **Onu** can be reactive at night — has been known to charge things he thinks are predators (e.g. blanket movement at the foot of the bed) and make a loud screech. Stops as soon as you say it's you.
+- Deer in the area can make alpacas nervous → loud warning sounds.
+- A camera in the stables is planned for monitoring.
+- **Sapphi's leg wound** (~April 26, 2026): was bitten — clean 1-2× per day with vet's protocol for 7-10 days. Watch for flies on fresh wounds.
+
+## Stables Setup
+
+- Idea: attach a hay-feeding bar to a lower spot between boxes.
+- Idea: build a 3rd wall on the stables so they can sleep inside in less hyper-alert mode.
+- Electric fence: check status before assuming on/off (was unplugged at one point).
+
+## Sleeping in the Stables
+
+If you stay overnight with the herd:
+- Bring a **mosquito net** (camping nets work).
+- Keep a **good stick** nearby for chasing predators.
+- Leave the metal gate open or closed depending on situation — coordinate with whoever else is on duty.
+
+## Related
+
+- [[emergency|🚨 Animal Emergency]]
+- [[natural-care|Natural & Preventative Care]]
+- [[first-aid-kit|First Aid Kit]]
+- [[chores|Chore Schedule]]