Observations on the Geriatric Female Alpaca, Part 2: Bumps, Blindness, and Sore Joints

Observations on the Geriatric Female Alpaca, Part 2: Bumps, Blindness, and Sore Joints

In the first part of this series we tackled nutritional and reproductive management of older females. Here, as promised, I’m going to talk a little more about some other things that we’ve observed in the older female members of our herd, specifically as it relates to one particular dermatological issue, some conformational problems coming home…

Observations on the Geriatric Female Alpaca, Part 1 (reprinted from Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles, Spring 2010)

Observations on the Geriatric Female Alpaca, Part 1 (reprinted from Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles, Spring 2010)

What follows below is a reprint of the final husbandry article that appeared in the Spring 2010 issue (the final hardcopy produced) of Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles. For those of you that haven’t seen it before, here you go. For those of you that have already read it, my apologies. Again. If nothing else, I figure that…