This morning, over breakfast (indoors, this time of year) we noticed that there was an extreme amount of head-butting going on and we couldn't think why. Then I remembered that I had thrown half a pumpkin over the fence yesterday. So Peter looked through the binoculars and sure enough, there was the evidence. Like most things, some of them like pumpkin and some don't. But if there are two who like it, you can bet there'll be some head-butting! Most of them like apples, especially the red ones and we have enough of those for everyone. They all like mint and carrot toppings but are indifferent about oregano.
Apart from apples, pumpkins and the leftovers from the herb garden, we have been giving them a lot of hay, which they love, and the neighbour is getting stale bread (and some not so stale) which is way too posh for sheep but... lucky them. They are still grazing on the field but there is not so much nutrition in the grass at this time of year. In Mangs Gård today we met three alpacas. They are so weird looking, like some Disney cartoon character (the push-me-pull-you?), with fluffy tufty ears, huge eyes and long eyelashes: everything about them seems to be a caricature of what would be considered normal in a four-legged mammal. One alpaca can produce 500€ worth of wool every year. The ones we saw had recently been shorn as their fur was quite short but incredibly thick. Apparently they can remain outside all winter provided they have some basic shelter.
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