Today Dr Leslie Richardson from Crater Animal Clinic came out to perform medical exams on two alpacas that have recently been purchased from us. Both of the alpacas - Minne a heavily pregnant female and Johnny a newly weaned alpaca cria passed their medicals with flying colors.

Johnny isn't registered just yet, so we had to draw blood for his DNA card which now goes off to ARI the Alpaca Registry, where they check that his Dam and Sire are correct by matching up their DNA profiles.

One tip here which I can share is that when you head off to the barn with your blank DNA cards, one way to keep them safe is in an old school audio cassette box.





Just a quick update on the apparent coronavirus outbreak. Thanks to Nancy Wright:

We took 5 alpacas to a show. The youngest was 9 1/2 months, about
100 lbs. We came back from the show on a Sunday. He started very watery
diarrhea on the following Wednesday. His quarantine mates then got
it, and by the following week some of the alpacas in other pastures
who did not attend the show got it as well. Nobody else that got
it, whether show kids or not, were juvies, under 100 lbs, or of poor
body score.

Nancy Wright


The fecal results just came back from Oregon State. They are positive
for coronavirus.

Nancy Wright