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Creating a Pasture or Paddock Paradise

admin — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:24:38 +0000

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 [...]

Labor Day 2010 – Too much work

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:37:58 +0000

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 [...]

Installing Alpaca Paddock Fence

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:08:11 +0000

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 [...]

Installing a fence (Part 1)

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:09:30 +0000

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 [...]