It all started with the neighbour down the road coming to get his trailer that we fill each week with Manure and waste straw. This was about 330pm, which is a bit early for the evening grain feed and hay top up but close enough with activity in the barn it is time for the herd to come in.
At 430, I was showing so farm visitors the alpacas after they came to buy a used woodstove we had for sale. More activity but no food being served.
Just as they left the neighbour returned with his empty trailer which we then put back in the barn. More activity but now it is 5pm which is when Caroline usually feeds them at this time of year.
I had just finished locking up the big barn doors and was making my way to the feed cans when I turned and saw Cocoa Blanca on two legs with her front leg over the gate and her head sticking through the gateway. She was just about to attempt to leap through before a scared her to retreat.
Nothing like teasing an impatient alpaca to cause an attempted breakout.
Cocoa did get her head in the feed bucket before I made it to the feed troughs. So she did get a little reward for her efforts.
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