The concept of a Paddock Paradise is the brain child of Jaime Jackson who wrote a wonderful book on it. (buy book here). The general idea of a paddock paradise is to create an environment for your horse that as closely mimics their natural habitat allowing them to travel distance and obstacles throughout the day [...]
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Here we are at another labor day on the farm and another year of projects too big for the weekend. Project 1 was planned. One of our alpacas constantly got through the strand fencing and went on walk-about. So, I decided to rip out all the old fence and install field fencing. Sounds simple. Yeah [...] Like most ranchers I’m sure we spent our Labor Day weekend hard at work. With a new cria due any week now it was long past due to put in field fence. The last thing I’d want is for a healthy cria to be born just to sneak under the fence and into the horse [...] Day 1 – Measuring The most difficult part of installing a fence making sure you get a straight line. We have a flag lot so and our house is in the center of the property so we drive down ¼ mile of our fence line [...] |
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