Polo PatchesI was wandering around a paddock on Saturday with a mattock looking for
Scotch Thistles to decapitate.
Normally you can spot these by the different shade of green. At the moment, with the good rains we've had, it's like an Eskimos 100 different shades of white except they're green here.
However some patches I investigated had no thistles, but instead a pile of 'paca poo.
Alpacas tend to defecate in the one spot unlike sheep who scatter their shit all over the place. This spreading we're trying to control by using 'cell grazing' techniques using electric fencing to confine most of the sheep to an area for a week at a time. Unfortunately the solar powered energiser doesn't worry some lambs enough (wool being an insulator) and they wander a bit, but the majority of the sheep stay within their bounds.
The color difference isn't as vivid as reality, but here's an example.
The Patch.
The reason.
