[AlpacaTalk] Re: Question for alpaca owners
<<< I would say browsers. My trees and shrubs will get stripped, if not
protected, and they love ponderosa pine bark, and also the needles. Aspen
trees, stripped of any leaves they can reach, and the blossom pods are
snarfed off the ground almost before they land.
Crab apple tree, had it's bark stripped off in several places before I
realized they could reach it through the fence.
Plus mine love yucca blossoms, going after those, even before tasting the
grass on a new field, and will also eat the yucca. How they never seem to
get those sharp ends in their face and eyes I don't know. I can't walk by
one without getting a yucca injection.
Now if they would just eat the weeds with as much enthusiasm..
.... >>>
Mine strip the fig tree and the apple tree that they can reach of every
leaf and piece of fruit they can reach......standing on their back legs
- they are quite the acrobats. They will also stand and dance for
privit. When one of mine went off feed and hay and was looking quite
peaked and puny a few months ago, I offered him privit while making
desperate phone calls for help.
He gobbled it up :-). They *love* sweet gum, of which I unfortuantely
have an abundance of. They walk along scarfing up every dead sweet gum
leaf they can find, tho I've never seen any of them "stand and dance" at
the tree itself.
They will clear new (previously ungrazed) woods of all undergrowth; mine
will eat weeds that the horses won't touch. When I am out mowing! the
horse pasture I am frustrated by the abundance of "good" weeds left
alone that the alpacas would have gladly scarfed up - like honeysuckle,
and various weeds that I recognize but don't know the name of - wild
lettuce is a favorite. I will pull a tall stalk anywhere I find it just
to bring to my guys because I know how much they love it. They will
also clear a pasture of grass and clover quite quickly! But not destroy
like the horses do.
Browsers AND grazers :-).
Warmly, Janice
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