Caring for Llamas and Alpacas: A Health & Management Guide
May 22nd 2008 04:28
This book, Caring for Llamas and Alpacas: A Health & Management Guide by Claire Hoffman and Ingrid Asmus, is a good resource if you’re starting out with alpacas (or llamas).
The book comprises 22 chapters on all aspects of alpaca care including nutrition, first aid, reproduction and newborns. It’s a book you can either read cover to cover, or just go straight to whichever chapter you need.
The book is in a two column format, very easy to read and understand. The index makes it no problem to find the part you need fast – important when it’s an emergency you’re dealing with.
There are very useful sections on restraining techniques and how to give injections. There are also appendixes with lists of supplies to have on hand, poisonous plants and even how to build a llama restraint chute.
There are good, clear illustrations too, to give greater understanding of procedures such as toenail trimming and giving injections. These are tasks which are often quite confronting to new alpaca owners, this book helps make it less daunting.
It’s a spiral bound book, so it lays flat and open on the pages you’re looking at – not so important if you’re enjoying a romance novel, for sure, but if you find yourself with a bottle in one hand, colostrum in the other and a fading, premature cria on the floor beside you, you’ll appreciate that the pages in this book stay open.
Caring for Llamas and Alpacas is quite a comprehensive book but it doesn’t try to cover everything in great detail. It gives you the information you need to acquire a good working knowledge of very important aspects, as well as the basics of other areas where you can go and find more information later. Things like information about the common parasites which affect alpacas and the berserk male syndrome.
I’ve read many alpaca reference books over the years and this is one I refer back to regularly. I’ve found it very worthwhile to have. It's available from Amazon.com
Caring for Llamas and Alpacas
The book comprises 22 chapters on all aspects of alpaca care including nutrition, first aid, reproduction and newborns. It’s a book you can either read cover to cover, or just go straight to whichever chapter you need.
The book is in a two column format, very easy to read and understand. The index makes it no problem to find the part you need fast – important when it’s an emergency you’re dealing with.
There are very useful sections on restraining techniques and how to give injections. There are also appendixes with lists of supplies to have on hand, poisonous plants and even how to build a llama restraint chute.
There are good, clear illustrations too, to give greater understanding of procedures such as toenail trimming and giving injections. These are tasks which are often quite confronting to new alpaca owners, this book helps make it less daunting.
Good illustrations and instructions
It’s a spiral bound book, so it lays flat and open on the pages you’re looking at – not so important if you’re enjoying a romance novel, for sure, but if you find yourself with a bottle in one hand, colostrum in the other and a fading, premature cria on the floor beside you, you’ll appreciate that the pages in this book stay open.
Caring for Llamas and Alpacas is quite a comprehensive book but it doesn’t try to cover everything in great detail. It gives you the information you need to acquire a good working knowledge of very important aspects, as well as the basics of other areas where you can go and find more information later. Things like information about the common parasites which affect alpacas and the berserk male syndrome.
I’ve read many alpaca reference books over the years and this is one I refer back to regularly. I’ve found it very worthwhile to have. It's available from Amazon.com
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