Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: everything! :)
Heather.
I am not sure about alpacas, but in horses and people, a female prone to
twins will more often than not have twins again. So you may have one of those
girls that is very prone to twining.
I would not think you would want to raise twins. Money/profit aside, it is
very hard on the mother and many, if not most, times one baby is compromised.
Especially with animals that are not meant by nature to carry twins.
When our horse ultrasounds with twins, we abort one twin and hope the other
survives. This is easily done and causes little if no discomfort to the mare.
There are few mares that can carry two babies to term, and then a percentage
of those that dont produce enough milk, or make enough milk but it tears down
their weight so terribly. And in all the sets of twins we have seen born -
we have only seen one set that grew up to full potential. The majority had a
baby die, had a baby that was stunted and grew to pony size or never had the
qualities that the other baby had.
So my thought would be, if you had your female be able to carry to term, I
would be conserned on what it might do to her physically and if she could
produce enough milk for them both. Could she keep her weight up. And if the two
where actually born alive, would they both be strong enough to survive, have
good fiber and would they both grow to full size or would you end up with
stunted dwarf like alpacas?
These are just questions to think about. Its all a numbers game. I am sure I
saw something about a pretty fine set of twins born to an alpaca - but that
doesn't mean that will be the norm considering this is a species that
normally delivers single births, maybe for a reason.
Amy
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