Dr Richardson and vet assistant Anita were on the farm today to do a series of tasks. Firstly we checked the umbilical hernia on one of the little boys and that is healing fine as expected and should be totally closed within the next few days. Which is good news.
We also did an ultrasound scan on the pregnant girls and all is well on that front.
Finally our female that was exposed to toxoplasmosis some weeks ago is still in quarantine and we drew blood in order that we might check that the titer is stabilizing. The lab won’t be able to process and get back to us until the end of the month owing to the holiday. Dr Richardson also took a smear sample.
The alpaca herd as a whole is looking pretty healthy at the moment and Dr Richardson and I have just completed putting together a comprehensive list of vaccines and other protocols that we will be using from now on. I wil post this as an article to the web site library rather than put onto the web Blog.

Adrian Stewart