Sunday 15 May 2011

Schoolboy error!

The girls have settled into their holiday paddock now. The larger part has a pond with hedge around part of it, and has only recently been filled in, soiled and seeded. It had wire on pig-tail posts around it to keep a previous horse off it...you're probably ahead of me now...

Beside the infilled pond.

Having kept them in the smaller part for a couple of days to settle down, on tuesday we let them into the larger part, and they got very excited, and galloped several laps around the 'pond' - it was then just before we left for the day job, that Bramley became curious about the pond area - she ducked under the wire, and at some point, went back, got tangled, spooked, charged off ripping out a line of pins which trailed after her - we sprang into action, fortunately the others didn't get tangled too, and I managed to grab her, so that Joy could un-tangle the line which was around her neck - phew, that was close!

lush!

With all the pins and wire now removed, they can't believe their luck at such a large ready-made rolling pit - I have had to 'comb' the area carefully, and remove a large number of pieces of dead bramble which were attaching to their fleeces, and very difficult to remove.

Only a, few weeks ago, I mentioned in a comment to Bev and Andy's blog (Lane House Alpacas)about the risks of tape fencing, and then fell into a similar trap myself - I think it just illustrates the issues you have to consider when renting land, and how easy it is to over-look a risk when you have so many things to think about before actually agreeing to graze somewhere else.

"...8, 9, 10, coming ready or not!"

6 comments:

  1. School boy errors and alpaca ownership seem to be a common factor here too...maybe we should just admit one may be the smarter of the two;)

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  2. Hide and seek !.....I like it ! Oh dear these alpacas....certainly make your heart stop ! as you know I've had my moments with the electric tape !.....never again !...glad things worked out fine !.......Jayne

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  3. At least you were there to see it happen and dive to the rescue! Loved the last photo and caption, brought a smile!

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  4. Alpacas and rented land can stress you out can't it. We had an incident once with the owner of some land we were using thinking they were doing us a favour raking out some moss. Only problem was they piled it up nicely for Loki to roll in the day before a show; and to make things worse it was his baby fleece!

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  5. Love that Bramley photo! Take care. Shirley & Robbie

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  6. Anyone want to buy 100m of nice green tape ?

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