New Road Hazard?

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honour123

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Due to the generosity of neighbouring farmers we have wonderful hacking from our yard and do not have to use or cross any main roads. We do, however, use local country lanes which can be just as hazardous as what traffic we do meet is usally big (tractors and farm machinery) and we have to pass at close quarters. Our horses are kept on a farm and are all good in such situations. Not so when we meet our latest road hazard - trekking llamas!! A lady has rented some grazing nearby and insists on taking these animals walking around the roads and bridlepaths. I appreciate it is her right but what is the point? It might not be so bad if they were well behaved - at least one starts leaping around when any attempt to control it is made! The horses are well used to passing the alpaca in the vicinity but some how the llamas are different.
That's my rant for the day. Does anyone else have this problem?
 
Had a man near our yard decide to keep ostrich - damn things were crazy running at fences ect ! My horse hated them and getting him to go passed was a nightmare - luckily the mans passion for ostrich seems to have waned as the birds have gone !!
 
Bloody Larma louts..... sorry not faced that as a hazzard my self, maybe you could speak to the owner and explain the problem perhaps you could take your horses to where there kept and graduly introduce them so there is less WHAT THE HECK IS THAT and more oh its just one of those....
 
There was a lovely article in the H&H about a huntsman who got dumped on meeting a llama out hunting - the solution, buy or borrow one until they get used to it!
 
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