Well the kittens are gone.

We contacted a feral cat charity who came and collected them.

It was sad to see them go but we have no experience of hand rearing kittens so it was for the best.

The charity will also come and trap whatever feral cats are around our barn in the spring and neuter them.

We got our round pen completed at last.

We are racing the winter to get the outside jobs done in time.

We want all the animals to be right by the barn to make the winter care easier.

We have made the chickens a new house inside the barn with a little hatch to a new run.

The llamas are having a double stall with a door to an outside so they can go in and out as they please.

We were halfway through the llama accommodation when the big storm hit yesterday.

We decided to try and catch and move them to the barn, but that is easier said than done with wild and untrained llamas.

Fabien the smaller meeker one was easily fooled into entering the holding pen, and then gave up as soon as we held him.

He isn't used to being led anywhere and so we had to lead him from the front and scoop him along from behind. He was scared but we got him to the barn and settled him in a box stall.

However we couldn't get hold of Tasha who is more suspicious and wary.

In the end we had to leave her all night.

we put food in the holding pen (which is also a light shelter) and caught her in the morning.

She is much stronger than Fabian though and went absolutley psycho when  we tried to walk her towards the gate.

In the end we had to leave her.

We felt really dissapointed and dpressed.

We bought the llamas without really finding out how well handled they were and its been very hard to look after animalsthat you can't get near.

They both need their toe nails trimmed and also to be wormed, but if you can't get near them what can you do?

Anyway we will be building a 50 foot shute tomorow in an attempt to drive her along it and into the barn.

More work, that we hadn't planned for.

We have also bought a new duplex. The sale closes on Tuesday.

Hopefully we can convert it into a triplex.

That will be our job for the winter.

Thank you Dave and Jules for the links for the weasels I will definately have a look at them  as soon as I get 5 mins. I am hoping now that the chickens are in the main barn with other big animals around that they will be safer.