[AlpacaTalk] Speaking of bugs

 

Just a heads up to everyone in the eastern US (and perhaps further west)
All of this warm weather has brought the tick popluations our much earlier, and they really never went dormant this winter. The ticks appear to be smaller this year than usual, but they are still dog ticks.

Picked our first mated pair off one of our dogs about three weeks ago. If you find one of those fat grey females, there is a much smaller male right beside her 99% of the time.
Picked my first one off me last week, and the dogs have them daily as we go on daily walks in our woods gathering a new crop.

Alpacas will get ticks as well, and in rare cases will have a disorder called tick paralysis, so be aware and add this to your list of suspicions should you have an alpaca with neurologic symptoms.

UGH,
Laurel
The Shouvlins
Bluebird Hills Farm
3617 Derr Road
Springfield, Ohio 45503
937-206-3936
www.bluebirdhills.com
bluebirdhills@voyager.net

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