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Protexin – for the slops

May 1st 2008 00:57
This is going to be an incredibly boring post for 99.9% of the people in the world today. HOWEVER, there is probably a person out there in the world (or even maybe two) who have an alpaca, or a pig, goat, chicken, horse or dog, with the slops. And if you’ve ever had an animal with the slops, you’ll appreciate that this post may be very useful for them.

This is about a product called Protexin which is a multi-strain probiotic, useful in the treatment of scours in animals. Scours is another name for the slops - or diarrhoea if you want to get technical


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Alpaca with Apple

April 25th 2008 05:48
No, not an exciting new recipe I’ve thought up, just an alpaca, with an apple.
Alpaca eating an apple
Alpaca eating an apple

This is Alice. Alice is 8 years old. She was born here. Alice knows that if she’s friendly, the two-legged’s will give her yummy things to eat



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Needle time - Vitamin D

April 10th 2008 23:35
Going into winter, we give our alpacas a dose of vitamins. We give a combination of vitamins A, D & E, but it’s the vitamin D which is particularly important for these guys.

Vitamins A, D & E
Vitamins A, D & E

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RIP Abbey (5 Feb 08 – 23 Mar 08)

April 6th 2008 21:19
It’s been a sad start to the year for some alpaca friends of ours too.

Little Abigail was their brand new cria, a beautiful little white suri girl


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A new home for Alana and Anika

March 25th 2008 05:25
We took Alana and her cria Anika (pron. 'ah-nee-ka') to their new home near Huonville on Saturday. They’ll be living with other alpacas, Pema and her cria, Chameli and wethers, Dawa and Mingma.

Alpacas, Alana and Anika
Alpacas, Alana and Anika

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POO SUCKER 5000

March 16th 2008 21:08
Is what I call my manure machine. Its correct name is a Greystone Yard Vac and it sucks up the alpaca poo out in the paddocks.

Yard Vac
Yard Vac

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Another Farewell

March 7th 2008 01:01
My herd of agistees left this morning.

I grew quite attached to a couple of them while they were here, so I was a little bit sad to see them go. Those two were the last to go up into the truck as well, so maybe they would have liked to stay behind


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Munching small areas

March 2nd 2008 22:20
I’ve never tried tethering an alpaca. Llamas are used for carrying gear on hiking trips and are tethered at campsites to stop them wandering away. They are very closely related to alpacas, so I guess it would be possible to train an alpaca to tether as well. They take to lead training pretty easily.

I occasionally put up temporary fences so the alpacas can munch the grass down in an areas where I don’t have permanent fences. For a large area, I use star pickets and sheep wire. It goes up pretty quickly and the alpacas are generally respectful of fences so it doesn’t need to be a great job to keep them in. I put a strand or two of plain wire along the top as the sheep wire I have is a little low on its own. I think you can buy it in taller rolls though, so that would be the way to go


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Cold Snap

February 25th 2008 02:37
I had a worrying night Saturday. It rained heavily throughout the day (no complaints about that!). But the temperature dropped and then the wind came up and it kept blowing and raining into the night.

Our alpacas were shorn back in November, so they have enough fleece now for them to cope, but I was concerned about our agistees, who were shorn just over a month ago. Our crias too, especially the two youngest ones, would be feeling pretty cold out in that


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Snip Snip

February 18th 2008 02:23
We did toenails on Saturday. Here’s a tip: When cutting alpaca toenails, plan to do it after it has been raining.

After rain, it’s a bit like how your nails are softer after a bath or shower. Same with alpacas when they’ve been walking about on wet ground


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