s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

Tuesday morning I finished the fence around the Stream Paddock at the bottom of the property. This paddock had a “temporary” eletric-tape fence around it… for the last 5 years! Now it has a proper 7-wire fence with a gate and everything! To-date this is the largest fence I have built, at a bit over 100 meters long.

With the fence completed Tam and I moved the alpaca and Jim the llama down the hill into that paddock, which is right by road. They were all very excited at the move, hooning and pronking as they ran down the driveway. At present only Jim has actually crossed the stream (he had dealt with stream-crossing when being a pack-llama). Hopefully the ‘paca will learn how to cross the weird-flowing-water of their own accord.

It is very fun to watch cars drive by and slow-down as the driver does a sudden double-take on the weird “neck-sheep” in the paddock. I hope we don’t cause an accident! (And if you are wondering, there is a nice pig padlock on the gate to make sure the ‘paca dont “wander”. Plus we wonder how well Jim would like strangers trying to mess with “his” herd. He seems to be fulfilling the herd-guardian role we wanted with the way he gives strangers-including us right now!- the hairy eyeball!)