Re: [AlpacaTalk] trimming incisors and fighting teeth
By the way, I'll try to have a video filmed next time we trim teeth!
Heidi, if it's at your place, I'll bring my camera with 1GB flash card!
Heather
On Oct 10, 2007, at 8:13 PM, Heather Zeleny wrote:
> We used dog nail trimmers to cut fighting teeth one year. And this way
> and it did indeed crack the tooth, although we didn't know it at the
> time. Later, we found a big mass of bone and gum tissue growing
> together... very unsightly, and I do imagine it must have been
> extremely painful for the boy. I will state outright that trimming
> fighting teeth with dog nail trimmers is a very bad bad idea.
>
> To trim incisors, you do not wrap the wire around the teeth but just
> place it on the inside of the teeth, then pull toward you with a
> sawing
> motion. It's really not as hard as some are making it sound. I was
> terrified to do it the first time, but now it's my preferred method of
> tooth trimming, and I've used a Highcroft/Toothamat
> before. The wire is quiet, very fast, and you can stop if you see a
> problem, like the cutting line not right. Simply realign your angle of
> action. No problem. With the Toothamatic deals, you can't see
> anything. You turn the thing on, push, and it's done. If there was an
> improper alignment (like cutting too much) too bad, it's already done
> and the major damage is done. And they cost over $100! The OB wire
> from Valleyvet is only $11.49 for 11 yards! And make no mistake, using
> the toothamatic doesn't require any less human help than the wire
> does. I know, we've used both.
> http://www.valleyve
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> Using the dremel to trim fighting teeth is also not a big deal, but it
> does require that the animal be restrained by either humans or a
> chute, and even when we do use the chute, we still need the same
> number
> of humans. The chute only prevents them from running away. With the
> most difficult males, we do resort to drugs prescribed by our vet.
> Some of the others we can get by with nothing or maybe some Rescue
> Remedy or Sedalia (homeopathic remedies) to make them more agreeable.
>
> Heather
>
> Heather Zeleny
> West Wind Alpacas
> Eugene, OR
>
> Holistic Farm and Elite Fleece
> Home of Avatar's West Wind Scirocco, El Bello's Padré, Pluro grandson
> Sienna Illusion, and true black full Bolivian Cosby of Chelsea Farms!
> http://www.westwind
> http://www.alpacana
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