Re: [AlpacaTalk] odd behavior
Can you take her body temp? (Rectal) I it is that warm and she is an older gal she may have heat stress, or she may in fact be settling into labour. Can you use your watch and count the number of breaths she takes in 30 secs and double it, pain and heat can increase resp rate. (as can a number of other things, infection etc.)
Normal temp = 99 - 102.5F
Normal respiratory rate (adult) 20-30 breaths per min
Adult pulse rate 60-80 per minute
I find that getting the basic info like this helps me to define between an emergency or just off behaviour. It is also helpful for the vet when you call so they have an idea what kind of issues they may face. If she is your favourite and your gut is sounding the alarm, I'd get hold of a vet with the vitals and see what he/she says...
Not a vet, Just trying to help
Dar Long
Serenity Suris
Ontario Canada
www.serenitysuris.
i have to agree with Heather - this is cause for alarm - can you get her into a cool place and shut her in? like a large barn stall?and keep her cool?wendy----- Original Message -----From: houckj@aol.comSent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 10:01 AMSubject: [AlpacaTalk] odd behaviorHow's everyone doing these hot days? Is the heat making *everyone*
cranky? Is it hot hot hot everywhere? We have had an exceptionally hot
June; doesn't usually heat up to 3 digits until July/Aug in these parts,
but we have been languishing under 105-110 heat index for the past
several weeks. Spending more hours than I can count out checking on
everyone; changing water for cool; soaking everyone down. Was gone most
of the day yesterday and was just frantic to get home and check on
everyone. Even the chickens are panting. I do *not* like summer time
in the South. At 8AM this morning it was 89 degrees with 90% humidity
and haven't had a drop of rain in a month. I have a large industrial
fan on a long HD extension cord out in the woods and that is where we do
all the water and the soakings.
I have been watching my Allie girl very closely this week. She is my
first and my oldest (9yo) and dearest. I have never seen any mating
behavior or even any interest shown towards her by the stud muffin Boy
Blue in the 4 yrs he has been here, so I am not expecting her to be
preg.....tho of course I have not been watching them every second day
and night.
Something is not quite right with her. I can't put my finger on it, but
I am getting a "vibe". Early in the week I thought she surely was going
to have a baby. She looks different; not bigger exactly, but her shape
is a bit different. But she is a "shape shifter" anyway and has fooled
me many times thinking she pregnant as could be. She can really balloon
out and then a week later look normal again. She has always been like
this. She is not ballooned out, but her shape is different. Her
behavior is different. She was lying around in an odd cush - one back
leg normal, the other back leg sort of tucked under her early this
week. She didn't want to get up. She wants to stay in the barn, not
out with her friends. Now she is cushing properly, and instead of
staying in the barn now she is lying out in the hot hot sun. Just a
bunch of little things like that and the "vibe". I have been keeping a
very close eye on her. She has been eating just fine. Then last night
and this morning very odd......she won't follow the food bowl over to
her eating place, I coax and coax. She walks a few steps and then goes
off in a different direction. I go back to her and shake the food, she
follows for a few steps, then off again some other direction. Last
night and this morning I finally just stood with her holding the feed
bowl and she ate it all. It is like she is disoriented or something.
Of course the heat is making me feel dizzy and disoriented myself. But
usually when I get the hose out she is the first one in line to get
soaked down; now she walks away as soon as I start to spray her.
Any thoughts?
Janice, sweating in NW GA
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