Tag: "cria"
- If the dam has no milk/has died or the cria is too weak to nurse, feed warm colostrum (frozen and stored from another disease-free alpaca/cow/goat) via teat (preferred method, to optimise digestion) or stomach tube (last resort) for the first 3 days of life to maximise antibody uptake into blood (first 12 hours of life) and to provide local gut protection from microbes for the duration of use. more »
- I recently had a cria born with probable congenital/acquired joint angulation deformities of the forelegs secondary to malposition in utero. This is the second cria (incidence more »