I hope (although highly doubt) she’ll source winter grazing for them! It looks bad now but christ when the winter comes it’ll make Glasto 05 look like a beach holiday 6 more months and it’ll be a weed infested wasteland. Can only hope they’ll have gone to the ‘alpaca people’ by then!Not alpaca but sheep person.
Grazing should be rotated and managed so that it doesn't end up like this.
Pastures for grazing should be large enough that there is always plenty of fresh for livestock to move to. They should be regularly moved to new enclosures/paddocks/fields to prevent over-grazing.
What's happened here is that their enclosure is too small to allow grass to recover once grazed. She moves them into the lawn area (basically the rest of the garden) but they also mow that. Its obvious it is mowed because there are no longer patches, which you'd expect if it was solely grazed. The mowing contributes to grass damage and less grazing for the alpacas which is why it is also very brown looking.
The risk now being that the grass has browned (not died yet! It will recover with some cooler, wetter weather) but with the alpacas still cooped in the enclosure, the heavy use of that area will kill off the grass in patches and ruin any grazing within that small area.
Sorry that was very long but she's so inexperienced and has completely mis-managed her grounds and her handling of those alpacas.
Edit to add: if she had given them a bigger paddock and fenced another two areas off to rotate then it wouldn't be half as bad. But the area is so small it would still be a stretch. Ideally livestock should be on fresh pasture through spring and summer and hay supplementing their grazing during the colder months.
I have a herd of Shetland ponies that have to be severely weight managed and this makes their ‘starvation paddock’ looks like the classic windows Home Screen