Easy Keepers You have probably heard how hard large livestock is on fencing and pasture, how accident prone they are and the huge vet bills that go along with this. Well, not the case with llamas. A four to four and a half high fence, using field fencing with perhaps a top board in most cases provides an appropriate and secure fence for llamas. The concern, unlike with most other animals, is not an attempt to keep them contained, but to keep predators out. If you live in a high predator environment, you may need a tighter fence mesh, and taller.
Llamas are very low impact on their pasture environment.
With their soft padded feet, they do not tear up their terrain, and as far as I know, they are the only animal allowed on a golf course. Llamas are grazers and browsers, eating grass, leaves of trees and to my dismay they will reach hard and far to nibble my rose bushes and other plants. They generally will need hay supplement in the winter. You can typically feed 3 llamas on the hay necessary to feed one horse, and it is certainly far more economical to feed a llama than a dog. Personality Llamas have very interesting personalities, and they all differ, just as ours do.