[AlpacaTalk] RE: Teeth
<<The guy I used had his "head holder" just put his thumbs in the
alpacas mouth at the very back -- no risk of biting with the mouth
open that wide and no sharp teeth there anyway. (The other thing I
learned about dogs and cats and pills -- make sure you wrap the side
of the animals mouth around so that it's their skin that will be
bitten into first -- they won't try to clamp down 'cause it
hurts!) The other way is to cut about 12" from an old garden hose
and hold that at the back of their mouth. He just used the ob wire
and quickly took off the fighting teeth of one boy. They came off
pretty fast, but they weren't that big, either. He would have done
the same with the tooth-a-matic. Didn't look that bad to me, but I
don't think I'd like to try it on there big front teeth.......
somewhere if you do that, you need to occasionally squirt water on
the tooth to keep it from overheating.
dremel. For fighting teeth, I use the ob wire attached to two thick
dowel rods, maybe each about 4" long. Drill a hole half way on the
dowel, insert ob wire, wrap around to comfortable length and you have
ready made "saw". Cheap, easy and gets the job done pretty fast, at
least from what I saw. If you go to the tooth-a-matic site, there
are two videos -- one with the tooth a matic and the other using a
dremel. Of course, we all do things the way we can......and for some
the tooth a matic isn't available. As far as a chute goes, just try
to get it all done when you've got them down for
shearing. Otherwise, I don't know how you'd restrain cause I sure
wouldn't want somebody messing with me that way!
Keep us posted!
Susan>>
Thanks Susan, so it sounds like you are describing cutting the fighting
teeth only and not those loooong front teeth? How do we trim those
monsters? I have one female who had these beaver teeth when she came to
me and I have never known what to do about them. Now my older female -
Allie, also has beaver teeth; as does my gelding. And then there's my
intact male who must have some pretty serious fighting teeth by now.
I am just coming back into my day to day life after about a two year
absence and am trying to play catch up with all the critters. I used to
spend bogoos of time with all my pacas, but they have sadly been
neglected while I have tended to other more pressing matters. Now the
alpacas have become the pressing matters!
Janice in GA
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