New Construction & Animal

Since the last update in April a great deal has been happening around Bramblewood Alpacas.

New fencing has been strung around an acre of land on the west side of our house, in which I built a wood shelter towards the front of our property. This shelter is large enough for the three girls. We then divided this paddock more or less in half and purchased a tarpaulin covered car shelter. This is a ten-foot by twenty-foot structure with plastic tarp over a steel frame.

I took me the better part of a day to construct this shelter in the center of the other end of our paddock. Since it was a calm day I did not anchor it to the ground right away. When we came out the next morning we found it on the other side of the fence on it’s top.

My wife and I got it back over the fence and then drug it across the enclosure to the fence on the opposite side. Here we anchored it to one of the fence anchor posts and also used steel fence posts to secure it to the ground, bales of straw on three sides both inside and out stopped all of the drafts and made it into a very good shelter for our animals.

We have purchased a bred female alpaca with a male crea at her side from Devine West in New Brunswick. She will be arriving in a couple of weeks. It is our plan to keep her (Sheanna) and Mikala in the paddock with the car shelter and Majorette and Velvet in the other half of this enclosure, towards the front of our property.

On the East side of our house is another patch of ground about an acre in size that we plan to fence and turn into another paddock where the mothers with creas can be pastured. We have already purchased the car port shelter for this area.

And so it goes chasing the dream.

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