Livestock & Pets : Alpacas
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Housing, health and disease control, some elective husbandry procedures (particularly castration and blunting fighting teeth) and euthanasia.
Females, crias, weaning, identification, selection for transport and behaviour.
Good advice about alpaca husbandry generally.
Today there are approximately 5000 alpacas and 270 registered breeders throughout New Zealand.
Alpacas might look a bit like pantomime horses to some people, but alpaca farming is a serious business in New Zealand
There isn’t space to discuss all the potential problems of alpacas of course, but these are conditions to which they seem particularly susceptible.
There isn’t a lot of information about worms in alpacas.
With their big eyes and fluffy coats, crias (baby alpacas) are particularly cute
You may want to be around when the cria is born in case anything goes wrong