| Facilities
such as shelters and barns vary throughout the country
depending on climate. In the south you are concerned more
about summer shade than winter snow. In our case we have trees
and man made shelters for the animals in the pastures. |
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| Fencing
varies also, our layout consists of outer barbed wire fencing
and inner pasture fences with "no climb" fencing
consisting of 2"x4" mesh. We don't have a lot of
predators due to our alpaca guard dogs patrolling the pastures.
If you have a problem with coyotes and/or neighbors dogs,
you can add additional predator wire to the bottom of the
pasture fencing. |
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Placement of gates and latches can be the most important
decision you make when laying out your pastures. We designed
our layout with lanes and interconnecting gates between pastures
so that you cam move the animals with one person. |
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In addition to larger shelters and barn, we also have two
smaller enclosed shelters. These can be used for moms with
new crias, isolation stalls or additional shelters for bad
weather. These types of shelters are often referred to as
"cria barns". |
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| Feeders and troughs.
In addition to hay feeders (or "goat feeders") we
use large plastic buckets, that are used to ship trees, for
hay receptacles. Feeders can be made from PVC pipe cut in
half with legs made from treated lumber. Plenty of buckets
with fresh water and hooks to keep them off the ground are
a must. We also attach small supplemental mineral feeders
to the pasture gates for free choice mineral consumption. |
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