[AlpacaTalk] Re: CDT
I normally keep my mouth shut here, Heather and I are not exactly best of
friends, but I would sincerely hate for new breeders to follow her lead.
> We don't have to give
> CD&T shots since we have no danger of enterotoxemia because we don't
> feed grain.
That is ludicrous.
CDT is a vaccination against clostridial infections which live in the soil.
That's what the C in CDT stands for. Humans can get C.diffiicile while
undergoing antibiotic therapy.
Ever heard of botulism? It's a clostridium bacteria. Oh yeah, tetanus is
also a clostridial bacteria, it's the T in CDT, and the technical name is C.
tetani, again, the C is for clostridium.
C. Perfringens is the part that the D in CDT stands for, C. perfringens type
D. The perfringens is sometimes associated with food poisoning in humans.
Ask your vet what will happen if one of your crias has enterotoxemia, you'll
shudder. Virtually every soil sample ever examined, with the exception of
the sands of the Sahara, has contained C. perfringens. It causes
enterotoxemia, which is also called over eating disease.
Over eating does not cause it, the bacteria that lives in the soil does.
Clostridium is nasty stuff. It kills humans and animals alike.
Walk into the ER with a cut, what's the first medical question they ask?
When was your last Tetanus shot? If you don't know, you'll get one. If
you're unconscious, you'll get one. It can affect alpacas every bit as much
as humans.
Will you even see the cut on your alpaca? Imagine a brown cria that skins a
knee. Imagine that pregnant brown female that finds a jagged edge on the
fence or a protruding nail. Will you even see the cut?
I give grain. 90% of alpaca farms in this country feed grain. Dr Evans makes
grain.
He also recommends CDT, which is probably given by 90% of the farms in this
country.
Y'all can choose whatever expert you want, I'll go with the vets.
I'm either back to lurking or thrown off...
Rick
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Rick & Pati Horn
All American Alpacas
Murrieta, Ca. 92563
(951) 217-0306 Fax (951) 679-8696
Life is Good!
http://aaalpacas.
> From: Heather Zeleny <alpacatalk@westwind
> Reply-To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:07:24 -0800
> To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
> Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Digest Number 552
>
> We don't have to give
> CD&T shots since we have no danger of enterotoxemia because we don't
> feed grain.
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