Re: [AlpacaTalk] RE: Odd Injury
Janice,
The answer is yes. We have 3 boys together and I noticed a gooey, wet ear on one of the boys when we were shearing. After some investigation, we found an infected gash in his ear. We are sure it was from fight-playing with our older male who had his fighting teeth at the time. You would never know that they weren't the best of buddies most of the time but every once in a while they will go at each other and (if not trimmed or cut) those fighting teeth are razor sharp, it wouldnt take much to get them hooked on an ear or skin. Our boys ear was quite bad, the more I cleaned the bigger the hole got. His fleece had matted over the wound so it took some time to gradually clean it all. I believe the vet recommended a shot of naxcel and I kept washing it clean with a very diluted iodine solution; water and neosporin weren't enough. He's fine now but has a 2 inch gash in his ear that would be perfect for a big hoop earring-give him that
pirate look!!
Don't know what to tell you about the duck. Is it possible a fox could have gotten it? We have fox that take a chicken now and then. They won't bother the pacas but are known to drag fowl off. Hope you get an answer to your mystery.
Robin
Ace & Robin Buettenback
B4 Alpacas LLC
3742 S Locust
Grand Island Ne 68801
--- On Fri, 8/1/08, houckj@aol.com <houckj@aol.com> wrote:
From: houckj@aol.com <houckj@aol.com>
Subject: [AlpacaTalk] RE: Odd Injury
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 7:06 AM
<<My first thought is fighting teeth. They are extremely sharp and
dangerous. And, they continue to grow, so they need to be checked at
least yearly and trimmed as needed.
Heather>>
I wondered about that possibility Heather, but I have never seen these 2
come anywhere close to mixing it up that severely. Could they have had
such a terrible fight in the night and still be acting normal and
hanging around together by the next morning?
And the stud male is much smaller than the gelding, I wouldn't think
*he* would be the one to inflict the damage but vice versa.
And if the injury was inflicted by the stud male, then what happened to
the duck?
I have become obsessed with trying to figure out what happened. Can't
sleep at night picturing a bobcat coming over the fence for its next meal.
Going out to change the "diaper" and check on the wound; it rained all
day yesterday and I couldn't get it checked.
Just praying it is not infected,
Janice
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