On Circle Ranch, the narrator creates a mixed-species herd called a flerd by putting cows, llamas, and alpacas together. Day two brings fights between the male llamas and protective aggression from a cow with her calf. By day six, the animals settle down enough to graze together, though tension lingers.
Yes, beginnings of a flirt. They don't really get along with one another all that well. This is only the second day and the first time they've actually been put in together. And they can get out that gate up there. Now I'm going to push these cows into the llamas instead of the other way around. Come on, Mama. Come on, Mama. That old cow there, she's kind of protective of that baby. She doesn't want those llamas getting— and alpacas getting close to her babies. You see up there, there's 2 of those llamas. They get pretty vicious with each other. This is the part that is what's going to make this difficult, is just the amount of fighting they do. But they're all getting settled down to where you can, can handle them. Well, that sucker's just— ain't giving up, is he? Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and bring them back out of there. Maybe that'll— The thing is, they do this when they're out in the pasture. They can be in a 3,000 or 4,000-acre pasture and these animals do the same thing on a daily basis. See the rest of these these lums and alpacas. Okay, this is just a normal deal. Boys will be boys. They're going at it again. Six days ago. That cow wouldn't get anywhere close to a llama. Llama and horse and alpaca and steer all eating together. They're still a little bit segregated, but they're starting to come together after 6 days.
