In addition to the wine tasting place they have animals, including a half dozen Scottish Highland cattle. Here they are heading for the shade of their barn.
One little calf trails along.
They also have a couple of friendly donkeys.
Roll in the dust? I don't do that. (Note shiny coat.)
This one liked to roll in the dust. When I told him I hadn't caught it the first time he obligingly rolled again for me.
Rolling.
The interview is over
High and mighty thoughts.
Oh, I guess I'll have a drink of water now.
Just the right height for a llama.
Wadda you lookin at? Never seen a llama before?
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Oh I love those Donkey's. I wish I could have two or three or four. Llama's are not always so nice, not sure about those but I would like to have some of those too for the wool or whatever they have growing to make sweaters and stuff, you can make a lot of money selling it too I think
What fun!! I'd love to dally with the llama's...
Alpacas are smaller and you can raise them too for money. Their wool is valuable. I did some research on that a few months ago. Guess they'd need a little bit of land, though. Couldn't raise them in an apartment!
Gosh - a winery on Long Island - with some pastures for animals! I didn't realize that there was that kind of open land on LI - guess I was a little guilty of thinking that it was more fully developed.
Did you see any indication that the owners are members in the Minor Breeds Conservancy? I'm not sure but I think I remember that the Scottish Highland cattle were included in their breeding programs.
Burros are feisty little critters. Years ago, on a trip down in Mexico, my friend and I rode some burros along a fairly "iffy" trail up and then back down a mountain. They amazed me with their steadfastness on narrow slippery trails -AND- the weight that they could carry!
That llama has good reason to look so annoyed - what good self-respecting llama would ever go in public with such a terribe hairdo!!
oops - terrible, not terribe ....
Biddie, The whole eastern end of Long Island, both north fork and south fork (except the Hamptons) is agricultural land...potatoes, many vineyards, trees, peaches, corn, cauliflower, and acres of sod farms. It's a beautiful area to drive around in, but on weekends the roads are clogged. It's becoming too popular.Martha Clara might have a website with info about their animals. They also have huge horses for hayrides, 2 black and 4 white horses.
Odd thing...I did a google search on "Martha Clara Scottish Highland" and the second item on the result list was my blog!! That gave me a funny feeling.
Those search engine robots ARE unnerving, for sure. Whenever I bother to check on the statistics counter that is embedded on a couple of my webpages, I always find hits from all over the world - most of them just come to either the home page or the table-of-contents page, see that it isn't what they want and disappear back into the electronic ethers. I can see what the search pattern was in Google that got them there (my stat tracker is a Google product) but I can't tell what other search engines located on - Google doesn't record that. Sometimes I'll get a yahoo search pattern that I can figure out but rarely.
But, for sure, I'm not hidden in a quiet corner from the world - it is something like knowing someone is out on the road taking notice of my activity here at home .....
We've got several ranches that raise Alpacas. Their wool is quite valuable. If I remember correctly Alpacas (and llamas in general) are great at spitting.
I have that impression too, Oppie, so I didn't get too close to that big guy.
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