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Tough Rodents Round Here

October 15th 2007 01:30
This post isn’t about alpacas, but another type of furry creature you tend to find on rural properties. I think it has more to do with poultry than alpacas. Anyway, we had a bit of a mouse thing happening which had to be dealt with. I haven’t been a fan of regular mousetraps since I saw one go off and the poor mouse took a full 30 seconds to stop struggling.

I don’t like poisons much either. It must be a horrendous way to go, and I don’t want to risk having poisons around with my small dogs


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Anatomy of an Alpaca Trailer

October 10th 2007 21:47
My Dad, who was a Spring Maker for 60 something years, made our alpaca trailer. He originally built it as a removable cage for the back of the flat-tray, but the ramp was way too steep and high to haul the alpacas up. And getting off, they’d simply jump, so if you happened to be holding onto the end of a lead when they went, you’d go paca-sailing off the back of the vehicle. Not fun.

So he made the cage into a trailer. It’s a tandem trailer (two wheels on each side). I think this makes it more comfortable for the alpacas, and it remains stable when not attached to the vehicle. You can walk around in it without it rocking like a see-saw



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Move dem Pacas

August 14th 2007 23:02
Early on, we decided we needed something in which to transport our alpacas. The first thoughts were what if one got sick or injured and we had to get him to a vet in a hurry. Also, if there was a bush fire or something, how would we get them out? Just the typical thoughts that new alpaca owners have.

We already had a flat tray ute, so it made good sense to use that. My dad was a spring maker and built us a stock crate to fit the flat tray. It was steel with wire mesh and a colourbond roof. It had a ramp at the back. The crate even had wind up struts for lifting it on and off the ute as we needed


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