[AlpacaTalk] RE: Teeth
<<our ob wire from valleyvet.com I think, and it's like $11 for 12 yards!
We had used the same length of wire that we bought from useful items
for over 5 years. That first one finally wore out and we broke down and
bought a new one, and much cheaper than from useful items or quality
llama products. We do use the dremel sometimes to smooth and round over
the edges of the fighting teeth that we trimmed off with the wire, and
we also use it to grind down the points on newly erupted fighting teeth
that are too short to cut off with the wire.
Never use nail trimmers to cut off fighting teeth. Our vet cut the
fighting teeth this way, and one of our boys' tooth actually cracked
down the center. Quite sometime later, we noticed a mess of gum and
tooth grown together. I can only imagine how painful that was for the
poor boy.
Heather
>>
When I only had 2, I used to put them in my old Trooper and haul them
about an hour away to a large llama farm to be sheared. They tie them
up tight in a chute. Once while there the man decided that my male
needed his fighting teeth sawed off and before I knew it he was sawing
away with what I guess was an OB wire. There was smoking and bad smell
and my boy was obviously in pain. I thought it was the most tortuous
thing I had witnessed and never had it done again.....actually now I
have a shearer come to me (very humane, laying on their side on a padded
thing he brings). I asked him this year about if he can also trim teeth
and said no, he had never done and had no idea.
Is this what you are talking about? How do you keep their mouth
open/immobile and do you put them in a chute (which I don't have)?
Thanks, Janice
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