Friday, July 20, 2007

Alpaca owie

Okay, our luck is not running so hot. The one alpaca who got cut while shearing is not looking good. He has the ever disgusting maggots in his wound now. So now we get to pick all those out. We had him in the small pin by the house to easily administer care. He was held with another alpaca and stayed there for a couple days. Last night something spooked them and the injured alpaca jumped, flopped and somersaulted over the fence bending it over. So we had to go chase down a panic stricken alpaca in the dark.

*sigh*

So now we also have a limping alpaca that we are eyeing. We found out that the alpaca that supposedly has staff actually has some other skin infection, so we are waiting on the shampoo to treat that one.

Now anyone want to see the gross owie. :) No maggots can be seen here, but there are some flies. We had blue Kot on the wound, but now we found from the vet that we cannot use that anymore with the present infection. I could blow it up more and really gross you out, but I thought I would spare my queasy friends.