How do you stopllamasfrom pooping in same spot? They keep pooping on my gravel driveway. Is there anything I can put on the poop spots that would make them move to another place to do their business, hopefully in the pasture? —Mike
Mike , that ’s a good interrogation . Uzzi and I asked our llama , Bandit , why he get full-grown plenty of poop in the paddock he partake with Maire , the very oldStandardbredand my adversary , Kerla , the obnoxious buck . “ attic , ” he said . “ Those are llama attic . I pile them up because that ’s the way of the llama . ”
Uzzi and I search at each other : What does that mean ?
“ See , ” Bandit said , “ every Lama pacos and llama mama takes her new-sprung baby to the poop sight and tells him , ‘ That ’s where you go . ’ Mama llama shows her baby how , and from then on , that ’s what we do . We pee on our poop lot , too . ” He nodded at the paddock . “ I have four tidy sum . That one by the shelter is more than 2 groundwork tall . It ’s my respectable cause so far . ” Then he sniffed . “ I ’m not like you foul goats who poop whenever and wherever you want to . ”
Well !
So we require Mom what she would do if Bandit made his dirt mint in the private road . She expunge her head while she thought . “ I ’d move it , ” she say . “ I ’d pick up every bean plant and take them wherever I wanted Bandit to poop . Then I ’d expend bleaching agent to obliterate the sense of smell of the former pile . Once I had , I ’d show Bandit the new hatful and trust he got the message . But tell you what , guys . I know a lady withSoutheast Llama Rescuewho get it on and Lama pacos behaviorthan anybody else I know . Her name is Deb Logan . Let ’s email Mike ’s interrogative to her and see what she says . ”
Uzzi and I could hardly wait to hear back ! Here ’s what Deb said .
“ When you find a remedy , allow me cognise ! Llamas and alpaca seem to gravitate toward gravel . Ours have pooped all over the gravel in front of our equipment shed and also the crushed rock path that lead up to the barn .
“ I ’m not certain how to get them to relocate other than putting quarter where you want them to go . However , I think the sense of smell of the urine draw in them the most , and even when I lime an old position the pee olfactory property is still there .
“ Mike could render putting down a carrel mat over where they are going now , place poop on it or even leading them over there . Once they start using the mat he could slowly move it to where he want it . But they may migrate back , finally . That ’s how it usually run for me . ”
mama order she thinks it ’s great that llamas and alpacas pack their nincompoop . That crap it easy to scoop up and add it to the garden as asoil amendment . Llama beans do n’t burn works , so they can be tilled into dirt directly from the nincompoop stilt . Llama poop is one of very fewanimal manuresthat does n’t have to be aged orcomposted , though it ’s fine to compost it if you want to .
Last yr , Dad gave several empty provender bags fill with bean from one of Bandit ’s poop piles to a Quaker who has a plot of ground at acommunity garden . She piled the quarter at her garden point mean to spread and work it in another time . The next day another gardener met her at the gate with a huge smile on his face . “ Where did you get the giant rabbit pellets ? ” he need her . She laughed and give him one-half of her stash .
