pretty much every horse mule owner ive ever spoke with said the same thing, its a lifestyle. im very lucky that the person I get my llamas from, allows me to keep them at her place, she is feeding and watering them every day, and interacting with them, they dont need to be worked with so much...
I have a North face Winona 6 man, it has a big flourless vestibule, I bought it off Sierra trading post for $299 I think, purchased a stove jack and ran that tent early season this year up to early archery,, put my Riley stove in it and it worked great, I really like the room a big dome tent...
Ive never owned horses goats llamas mules or any pack animals until 1.5 years ago.
Everything Nick and Squirrel and Bull n Heat. mentioned iI agree with.
I live in wyoming and spend a fair amount of time in the Winds, Wy range and GV.
I had been on a couple hunts with horses before, but...
ive got another 2 months essentially in the 11x11 this fall, October and November,,great tent in any weather conditions or time of year.
I put tent and wood stove on one llama, around 50 lbs. the frame for tent I strap to another llama, unless we come out heavy, they one llama takes all the of...
my 16' stock trailer I could put 8 in I believe, I put 5 in now,,, 8 would be tight.
my newer goose neck trailer I have now is wider and im sure I could get 8 in it as well, but that would be the max I believe as well
its also 16' long inside and 7' wide, slightly wider than most trailers
I started with this, it's a great trailer, fixed it all up, new floor and lights, pigtail, and tires and wheel bearings brakes and such.. but the rust does make me nervous.... but all in all its been a great trailer, it has a center divider too, so you can put gear, hay or whatever else you need...
I did the cheap old rusty bumper pull stock trailer, it works fine, I would get nervous sometimes watching other trailers with broken axels on the highway and 4 horses inside, I went ahead and just got a nicer newer gooseneck. after owning a gooseneck I will never go back to a bumper pull...
just came back from a week long archery hunt, had a black bear come into camp while im sitting at fire eating top ramen with 5 llamas my dog, on day 6 so plenty of stinky socks and such, he walked right up the trail myself hunting partner and dog have been using all week, the wind was blowing...
if you harvest a elk , you better be proficient at breaking down a animal and better be quick about it, you are on the clock to get it cut up and hung high enough to keep them out of it and away from the gut pile,, they are coming, and get it packed out, if I were you and looking at some of the...
ZOLEO is awesome,,, replaced a broken inReach with it,, much quicker and simple to use,, never a issue with mine,, going on 3 years and I send a lot of messages and use it year round,,, ice fishing, hiking cutting wood, its with me almost every day.
thats awesome, I hope to one day have a big enough place I can start raising them as well, they are such fun and so rewarding. incredible animals and the different personalities are so much fun as well.