Today we took Santo back to the vet to check his feet which are recovering but only slowly. And we took our female who's cria died to check her out.

Dr Timpson scraped Santos feet and checked for mites but couldn't find any so assume that they are healing. However we will continue with the local application of Atroban on all four legs and his centre line. Plus we gave him a shot of Ivomectin. The Atroban we will do after he has been shorn next weekend.

Our female alpaca checked out normally and an inspection of the cervix by Dr Timpson looked fine but we took a swab to be safe and a blood sample just to check everything is as it should be. While we were there we did an ultrasound just to make sure she was?empty" and that everything else looked normal.

So the good news is that she is fine and we are just waiting for the swab and blood panel results to confirm what we saw in the examination.





Adrian Stewart