schmism
Super Member
After years of helping a friend with alpaca's and wanting some ourselves we were finnally able to get 2 alpaca and a llama for our hobby farm. We had worked hard at building fences, cleaning woods, and were finally in a position were we felt we could take care of a few. This timming worked well as our long time friend was down sizeing her herd.
The girls are fairly low maintance, check on them once or so a day, perhaps give them some grain, make shure they have water and put a flake or 2 out for them. This check ususally occurs late afternoon early evening as we are putting up the chickens, collecting eggs etc. (doing the daily chores). Last nights check everyone seemed fine.
Today the wife comes in and says, there is a problem with Emmy. I put on the coat and head down to the barn to find our best alpaca lying on the barn floor stiff and suffering from what look like seizures every few min. The wife sits with her while i call the vet. He is at the property about an hr later. After some discussion ensues, we determine that the condition is not likely to improve, so the call is made to put her down.
So on a dark cold november night, i have to go hook up the woods hoe, rig up a work light and spend half an hr in the cold dark digging a hole.
As an owner of large animals we knew this day would come, we just never expected it to be one of our young otherwise healthy animals we had just got not 6 months ago.
It was a tough evening here on the farm.
The girls are fairly low maintance, check on them once or so a day, perhaps give them some grain, make shure they have water and put a flake or 2 out for them. This check ususally occurs late afternoon early evening as we are putting up the chickens, collecting eggs etc. (doing the daily chores). Last nights check everyone seemed fine.
Today the wife comes in and says, there is a problem with Emmy. I put on the coat and head down to the barn to find our best alpaca lying on the barn floor stiff and suffering from what look like seizures every few min. The wife sits with her while i call the vet. He is at the property about an hr later. After some discussion ensues, we determine that the condition is not likely to improve, so the call is made to put her down.
So on a dark cold november night, i have to go hook up the woods hoe, rig up a work light and spend half an hr in the cold dark digging a hole.
As an owner of large animals we knew this day would come, we just never expected it to be one of our young otherwise healthy animals we had just got not 6 months ago.
It was a tough evening here on the farm.
