Our new little boy is now two days old and has a name he is Mr Bo Jangles. We have this plan to name all our animals after songs?You may well ask why? Well the answer is we wanted a theme of sorts and wanted the names to sound familiar as soon as you heard it?so we decided on popular songs. Hence, Mr Bo Jangles. Anyway, he is doing fine but there is fresh blood on mums back legs not much but even a small amount is too much! When I decided to look around in the straw bedding and then I see more blood on the stall floor. Now I am worried about her. As it happens, Tara Timpkins DVM is coming in this morning to do some ultra sound scans on a group of females. Some we hope are pregnant and some we hope are still open! Tara is concerned too and we decided to keep a close eye on her while we start the ultrasound scans. As Bettina stands up from cushing, she looses blood and a significant sized blood clot. We have a closer look at Bettina but still cannot see anything. Tara calls the team at OSU Vet College and they ask her to do take a look using the speculum before sending her up to OSU. We decide not to sedate her for the exam, as we do not want to interfere with anything in her blood system right now. The exam does not reveal the site of the tear just that blood is pooling in the vestibule. Tara decides she needs to go to OSU and creates a large dressing, which she inserts into Bettina for the four-hour journey to OSU. By one in the afternoon, we are on the road and safely at OSU by 5.15pm.
Laura Waitt the internal medicine resident and her team are brilliant, in no time have Bettina and Mr Bo inside, and have collected all they need in terms of background from both me and information Tara has phoned in. The OSU team decide to keep Bettina steady tonight and do a full work up in the morning once Dr Estill is in???..I drive home alone listening to am radio stations and get back around 11 pm?God I love this alpaca lifestyle!

By Adrian Stewart