water experiment on horse, donkey, llama

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a_plutonium - 17 May 2007 19:40 GMT

Llama is one of those words that is good for spelling contests because
of the silliness of repeating "l". Someone
should make a conference of where a language is logicalized every ten
years and words like Llama become
Lama.

Anyway, I have a horse, mule, llama residing in my back yard and
decided to test to see if and how much
they like water. So I got a 4gallon plastic bucket and they usually
come to me as soon as they see me
in their area because I feed them treats like pretzels or fig-newtons.
They like the newtons more than the
pretzels but their tongue swags after eating. Anyway, I wanted to see
if they like water and so I filled the
bucket and threw it over the back of the horse, the donkey and the
llama in turn. The horse liked the water
the least and took off on a charge. And whenever he saw me with the
bucket, scampered away. The donkey
and llama did not care, probably because their hair was so thick that
the water did not impact. None came
back for more.

I would think they liked water to relieve themselves of insects and
heat.

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a_plutonium - 25 May 2007 06:51 GMT

Well I almost thought I had a win, win, win situation, until I fully
lived through it. I thought the livestock
would eliminate mowing, would fertilize the grounds, would keep me
entertained. But I never thought
to the stage in which weeds would enter the picture. Curly Dock. I
guess they smell it and never eat it.
Anyway, what used to be grass lawn has become this ugly weed.

So I moved the animals to allow me time to eradicate the weed.

So I think the answer is constant steady rotation of pasture.

By the way, the llama and donkey got loose and the donkey took off
like a jet rocket down the road
as fast as possible. I suppose he liked a taste of absolute freedom.
He turned around and charged
the other way for I was holding a fig-newton cookie for him.

What I am trying to work out is a living arrangement for people with
homes and livestock as a
common occurrence as a source of food and as a taking care of a lawn
of generous size. It is a
waste of a lot of energy to just mow grass for so much land. Something
like miniature cows or
miniature horses would be ideal for lawns of a few acres. There is
some damage to young trees
since they like to rub so much, so the landscaping has to be mature.

Archimedes Plutonium
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where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

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a_plutonium - 25 May 2007 17:26 GMT

Now I wonder if geese eat curly dock? So that I may have to include
geese into my menagerie of animals.

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where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

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water experiment on horse, donkey, llama