Alpaca maintenance
July 19, 2019
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Alpaca maintenance was on the cards this week – One of our winter tasks… ‘Pedicure’ for each animal, vitamin injection and drenching.
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Digging for winter :-)
April 20, 2019
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Not that we lost winter in a hole, but the valley got so soggy over the years that we used the still good autumn weather to dig drainage in preparation for the wet winter time.
Beautiful weather and no rain in sight
February 6, 2019
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The last bit of rain has been some time ago and the weather forecast shows no rain for the next two weeks.
Maintenance day
January 26, 2019
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We made use of the long weekend – yes, it’s Auckland Anniversary weekend – and did some farm maintenance.
Exploring our bush
October 6, 2018
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We had a few hours of exploring our little bush strip in the gully.
Horses ready for the next storm
April 28, 2018
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Another storm has been announced last night, so early this morning we finished the horse shelter area and moved the two boys over so they are going to have a more comfortable place during the day when the weather closes in.
There’s always one…
March 18, 2018
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They hang around, don’t go too far away from their herd and very easily follow you back into the paddock after you opened the gate for them.
Random images of farm beauty
March 13, 2018
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A walk down the hill and saying hello to all the animals can be a really healthy exercise and you can discover the odd cool things when you look at details: fence wire knots
New Building Projects
January 11, 2018
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The last winter has been so terribly wet and turned all paddocks into mud that we decided to have the horses in a shelter and feed them rather than having them wading through mud and effectively thrashing the paddocks.
Autumn impressions
May 20, 2017
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The weather is getting colder and wetter and other than that there are not too many news. So I decided to just publish a collection of autumn pictures. Enjoy.
Winter prep part 1
April 9, 2017
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Done… busy weekend making the most of the weather… weeding, fertilizing and oversowing paddock yesterday, pouring concrete in the animal shelter today.
For years the shelter has been wet – this will hopefully make it drier and easy clean!
Wet but good
March 11, 2017
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After almost months of no rain and hardly any grass growth, we finally have some rain. Some. I guess it may be classified as another 1:50 years storm of which we should be prepared to have more, more
