Posts for Fencing

Auckland stays peaceful during the holiday exodus as farm life continues. Time off work means tackling essential fence repairs and dealing with cheeky goats testing boundaries.

The goats decided to go through the fenced off area with shrubs and decimate them. No good. Turns out, the poly wires were too old and did not work any more as they should.

We have not seen much rain in more than 2 months now but rather hot, sunny weather with wind. Both dries out the land, particularly the hillsides facing the Kaipara where the wind blows from and which the hot afternoon sun hits.

Saturday was the day of the bi-annual alpaca maintenance

Time to head into the valley and do some paddock maintenance. Checking fences and gates, continued to dig a drainage trench, checked up on the alpacas and moos, mowed some swamp grass and sprayed some other areas of swap grass. Chopped some firewood, loaded up…

First day in a long time without rainy weather, so we went down into the valley for fixing things, moving things and play things.

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.

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

Spring is back again and so is the beautiful weather and sunshine.