Shortly before Minne gave birth we sold her to a new alpaca breeder. Her new owner decided that Hope would be the perfect name for the new cria. First thing this morning i checked Hope's temperature and it was a very healthy 100.6 so knowing that she didn't have an infection and that she had good immunity it was time ti withdraw the catheter from her neck vein. We had left the catheter in just in case we needed to give antibiotics.

If you don't know this the catheter is totally plastic and once correctly inserted by the vet is attached to the alpacas skin with a small drop of glue. As I was on my own I could not hold the cria and get the catheter out......

Luckily for me although Dr Richardson was on her day off she jumped in the car and drove down to remove the catheter while I held the cria...lesson learnt on my part!

The weather was much colder today and before long it started to rain so I put the two new arrivals into coats just to keep off the worst of the weather.



At last I could relax....it had been a stressful 24 hours but all is well that ends well.