This morning we completed the vitamin A&D injections on the male alpacas and while we were at it we trimmed some toe nails and checked out their body scores.
The snow didn't get any deeper overnight and as the sun came out it all looked very picturesque.


Now that the A&D have been done its time to think about using the Corid. Normally only available in gallon jars I found some pint sized bottles in Big R yesterday which will be just perfect.



For the Eimeria macusaniensis, we use Corid at a dose of 10mg/kg for 15 consecutive days (OSU's recommendation).
Corid comes in a 9.6% solution (96mg/ml) and must be diluted to ~1.5% solution (15mg/ml) to prevent oral and esophageal erosions. Corid can also cause a die-off of the thiamine producing bacteria in the C1 compartment which in turn can cause a thiamine deficiency and result in polioencephalomalacia...to prevent this our vet Leslie Richardson recommends administering injectible thiamine every 2-3 days during the treatment.

Corid dose:
per 100# body weight administer 4.7ml corid and dilute with ~25ml of water to a total volume of ~30ml and a resulting concentration of ~1.5%.

Thiamine dose:
the dose is 3-5mg/kg, the thiamine we have is 200mg/ml so you could give ~1ml per 100# body weight every 2-3 days.

If you are thinking about buying alpacas then you need to do your homework before hand and we have a simple and easy to use buyers guide which you can read before going on a farm visit just to whet your appetite.

There are some other informational and entertaining alpaca articles in the farm library.