Mike, the man with the digger, is just finishing off fencing a new field we bought last year that has not had animals on it for a year. It is a lovely field with wild daffodils in a corner in the spring, early purple orchids, snowdrops and loads of primroses and bordered by a pretty little stream. One of the fields of females, some with cria at foot, will be moved there today so they will be in heaven. However realised we haven’t got enough hay mangers but luckily the agricultural store in Tiverton, Heard and Sendell, have one in stock that they can deliver tomorrow.
At this time of year all the alpacas get through a lot of hay as there isn’t much grass and what there is has little goodness in it. It means that we can rest and harrow another field. At the moment we have seven fields grazed by the animals with five resting and the animals move between them every few weeks. They seem to enjoy the moves getting very skittish as they hurtle round the new field.