alpacas: [AlpacaTalk] My Little Guy

Oh my we need to change the channel. My little guy is doing great! No more bug problems and now he thinks me trying to catch him is a great game. I have to admit that white white fiber and those blue eyes sure make him look like ET. THANKS everyone for all your help!!

Jim

--- On Sat, 10/2/10, Tina Travis <traviselkhornalpacas@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Tina Travis <traviselkhornalpacas@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Help Please
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, October 2, 2010, 7:37 PM

            David as gross as it sounds,I have seen it on one of those discovery channel shows.Worked like a charm on the program.Yuck!!!

Tina Travis

Elkhorn Alpacas

31655 Elkhorn Glen

Warrenton,MO.63383

636-359-0250 / 636-459-8930

traviselkhornalpacas@yahoo.com

www.elkhornalpacas.com

Alpacas are a rare treasure,

one that I like to share!!!!

From: David Friedman <alpacas@roadrunner.com>
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, October 2, 2010 5:30:27 PM
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Help Please

Hi Ellen,

Yes, medicinal maggots are still utilized in Europe, or at least they were when I studied medicine in the Netherlands in the 70's and 80's. We used to call them "The Microsurgeons". Neat and clean and far more adept at cleaning up dead tissue than even the finest surgeon.

Dave

Dave and Esther Friedman
Adirondack Alpacas
"From the Womb to the Loom"
9568 Old Stage Road
Remsen, NY 13438
315-831-3040

On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Ellen Farrell wrote:

Heather coined the phrase and my skin is crawling...

Laurel, or anyone, what causes fly strike? Is there an injury to begin the process?  Is it only newborns? I have seen maggots in a wound on a dog once, hidden by his long hair, but the wound came before the "clean-up crew".

Okay, not going to ponder long "witnessing the consumption of...", but this brings another question: in a popular fictional book series, the doctor actually utilized maggots to clean out dead tissue from infected wounds. The idea was that the maggots did not eat sound flesh and kept gangrene from establishing by the "rapid" clean-up. At the time, I remember wondering if there was any basis of historical fact there. Anyone know?

Ellen Farrell

Auburn, CA

From: Bluebird Hills Farm <bluebirdhills@voyager.net>
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, October 2, 2010 6:00:21 AM
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Help Please

Jim,
What you are seeing is the start of fly strike and it takes only a day or two to have maggots literally chewing a hole in your cria. Be very attentive and consider something guaranteed to kill. I had this for the first time last year and there were multiple spots on a two day old cria where we had dime size holes in the cria's skin!

All ended well, but it is just amazing how quickly it all happened. If you have ever witnessed the consumption of a carcass my maggots, you will understand that it is a matter of hours, not days.

I ended up doing a cria cut on this little guy to be assured that I got all of them and found 3 more batches of eggs.

Laurel
The Shouvlins
Bluebird Hills Farm
Springfield, Ohio
937-206-3936
www.bluebirdhills.com
bluebirdhills@voyager.net

> This past Thursday I had a snow white blue eyed male cria born.
> Everything has been going terrific until this evening when I was giving
> him his evening pet and rubbing I felt knots in fiber on his stomach, when
> I investigated it was FLY EGGS!! Immediately checked for wounds or
> dried blood and checked his navel for infection. Nothing. So I combed
> out the eggs and spray both mama an cria with on herbal fly spray,
> retreated the navel with betadine. Is there anything else I should do?
> What on earth would cause this to happen? I would really appreciate any
> advice on this. Jim

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