Alpaca fence time ...

Bit of a job on this week adding another 15 acres to Toft Alpacas. Makes you tired just looking at it.

Working on the new bit....

Toft Alpacas is expanding. We've taken on another 14 acres of ground adjacent to our holding. Unfortunately it hasn't had a lot on it in the past eight years we know of. Which means there is hardly a fence worth having and the hedges are ten yards into the paddocks at some point. 

 After a reasonable week last week the cutting back of hedges has another couple of days to run before we get it Ll cut back to the old fenceline. Then of course there's the fencing to replace.  Paul Beswick of  Du Prem came over yesterday to give me hand fencing in some waste ground in one of the paddocks. The upside is we got what needed to be done, done. The downside is there's about another 20 days of fencing to accomplish. At least Mr Beswick has plenty of stamina. We were still at it as the light came down. Well, what else is a boy up do on his days  off? 

Alpaca fencing

Busy two days fencing the display paddocks easy for the Toft Alpacas open day today.
It always amazes me that an animal that could clear the four foot stock fencing by a foot and a half is kept in place by a three foot stock fence and two strands of plain wire.
It is truly remarkable the way alpacas see a straight line as a solid object and never jump or challenge the fences however simple they may be.
These fences I'm doing are far from that. I'm creating three display paddocks to enable the toft alpaca visitors to get close to the alpacas for photo's and fun. I've had five gates and 200 metres of stock fencing to put in by hand!
As you can see Archie the llama and his gang are supervising the job!