Having shared by hopes and plans over the last few days for the fencing work I am about to start. I had an e-mail overnight from an alpaca breeder on the west coast of Australia to tell me that I am on the right track and that by using a Spinning Jenny to uncoil the wire I can do most of the work single handed.



There are several different types of Spinning Jenny but this picture gives you some idea about exactly what it is I am talking about. What really blows me away is that I write about fencing here in Oregon and get mail from the UK and Australia from fellow breeders who want to help....the internet is an amazing thing and the alpaca community just as amazing.

The weather isn't quite so hot today so I have put the female alpacas into a field with better grass but no shelter from the sun. If it gets really hot later I can always move them back so no worries about that.

I am heading off shortly to collect the post hole boring machine that goes on the back of a tractor and is driven by the tractor PTO. I am going to use this to drill holes for the end posts of the fence which I will set in concrete. Th end posts take all the strain or tension in the wire and the other posts simply support the wire along its length. So when you staple the wire in place you don't knock the staple all the way into the post and trap the wire.

Anyway I am getting into the detail and there will be time enough for that once we get underway with the fencing.

Adrian Stewart