[AlpacaTalk] Re: snail control

--- In AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com, Heather Zeleny <alpacatalk@...>
wrote:
>
> You just cut the sheath so that it leaves 1/2" or 1cm of needle
> exposed. You take the sheath off the needle, and cut it with a
utility
> knife or pruning shears, or tin snips, anything that'll cut through
it
> fast and easy. I still think buying the 1/2" needles is the easier
way
> to go. :)
>

Buying the 1/2" needles is by far the easier way to go. I use my old
1" needles to draw up the Ivomec then switch to the 1/2" to inject.
The reason for using a different needle to draw up the med is that it
stings and so using a clean needle to inject lessens the sting.

As a RN, I never understood the technique that I was taught as an
alpaca newbie to inject alpacas SQ using a 1" needle. It was
unnecessarily complicated. Once I started giving the injections in
the same way I do for humans, it became so much quicker and easier.

Nancy

Shadowberry Farm Alpacas
Carlisle, PA

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