Re: [AlpacaTalk] RE: Teeth
We used to have a Highcroft trimmer (same thing as the other deal).
They actually are not so easy to use.
I prefer to use a 2' length of ob wire to trim incisors, and fighting
teeth, too, for that matter. It's nearly as fast as those scary huge
noisy dangerous electric contraptions, but much safer and quiet. We get
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
Heather Zeleny
White Lotus Alpacas
Creswell, OR
541.895.0964
Holistic Farm and Elite Fleece
http://www.whitelot
http://tech.
On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Susan Forman wrote:
> Janice:
>
> Ahhhhh, the tooth-a-matic!
> used to think they were a gag, but they're real!
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