Re: [AlpacaTalk] pneumonia in alpaca
In a message dated 10/7/07 12:29:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
wyattblack@earthlin
> By the time an alpaca goes off it's feed there is usually something very
> wrong with them and they can crash very quickly by then if it is serious
> enough.
>
I had a female go off her feed one night this summer with no other apparent
symptoms of anything, and she was dead the next morning.....
ground that I managed to keep alive on goat's colostrum and milk for 3 days
before the absolutely adorable little boy also died. It was most
heartbreaking. I don't have a clue what the problem was. She was fine the morning before.
For what's worth the only vet around here that is even willing to work with
me is also a cattle vet. I bought him Dr Evans vet manual but he never
consults it; I do and tell him what it said if he is doing somehting that I have read
is not supposed to be done. It is a very scary feeling. I have watched him
tube a cria so roughly that it made my stomach cramp. I knew he was doing it
in a way that Dr Evans says not to. But he is older and not very easy to talk
to and a man of few words. But at least he would come out at night and on
weekends as he lives close by. There is noone else in this area willing or
interested.
I had to take my dog to the vet this week because he lost half his tail
somehow. REally nasty looking. The vet merely looked at it, wrapped it up and
gave us some antibiotics and anti-depressants of all things (said it would keep
him from chewing his tail - NOT) and the bill was $150. I about fell over. No
wonder none of them want to do farm animals anymore if they can make this
kind of money staying in thier office for a 15 min look see. BTW, the dog had
chewed off the vet's bandage before we even got home and was bleeding everywhere
(it had taken me until 4AM the night before to clean all the blood from the
house when I noticed at midnight that he was lying in a pool of blood. Good
thing I was still up or he would have bleed to death. I wrapped it in a big
absorbent towel that I then taped on with duct tape - he was NOT go;ing to chew
that off and bleed to death while I slept!
I have had such a bad year with all my animals that I am not sure what to do.
I am so weary of constant emergencies. My 9yo dtr wants to be a vet and I
am thinking I may just have to get rid of all the animals until that time! We
had a horse choking late the other night and all we could do was watch and
wait. Luckily she was fine by morning.
Good luck, Janice
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