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with Bob Van Saun – 3/5/6 October ONLINEI am excited to bring you the opportunity to transform your nutritional management for your alpaca or llama herd with the most comprehensive Camelid Nutrition Masterclass ever offered – the Advanced Camelid Nutrition Masterclass with Bob Van Saun!Just imagine this… having all your animals in tip-top shape, fed the perfect ration that optimises their immunity and gives them the best ability to fight off disease… having crias born at optimum birth weights and just thriving… their dams having the best quality colostrum so that the crias acquire sufficient passive immunity and sail through their…

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As you all know, I love to provide educational content. Since it’s summer, and I’ve just come back from holiday, I wanted to provide some content to you in a slightly more light-hearted way in order to encourage you to think about your parasite control strategies… Click on the link and prepare to be entertained!!!! That’s all I’ll say! 😉I hope you enjoy it! Please subscribe to my You Tube Channel and share, share, share!![A big shout out goes to my student Lab Tech Izzy Brennan-Pope for being such a big sport and allowing herself to be videoed with her slightly…

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🌟   You’re Invited to a FREE TRAINING: Biosecurity for the Breeding Season! 🌟Join me for an exclusive training webinar dedicated to “Biosecurity for the Breeding Season,” tailored specifically for passionate alpaca and llama owners like you!Date: Tuesday 21st MayTime: 8pm GMTLocation: ONLINEIn this webinar, you’ll gain valuable insights into:Secure your spot now by registering in advance for the webinar here:https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XS31esVfRgSYogRF3L9hRgAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.Mark your calendars now for an enriching webinar experience you won’t want to miss!See you there!Claire

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Umbilical Cord Care for newborn crias is an important consideration to plan for ahead of birthing season.What, why and how?After crias are born, you should spray the umbilical cord with an antiseptic solution in order to prevent infections from tracking up the umbilicus to the bladder and liver. Fortunately umbilical infections are quite rare in camelids compare to other farm animal species. However that could be because their owners are vigilant! Always make sure that you spray the entire surface of the umbilical cord 360 degrees around the stump. Don’t just spray from one side! If you prefer to “dip”…

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At shearing time, occasionally wounds may arise due to clipper injuries. Fortunately, most of these are small knicks in the skin that can be cleaned and have a little wound spray applied. However, some wounds may require a little more care in order to bring the edges together so that they heal better: tissue glue can be used for some of these wounds, once they have been cleaned and are dry. Tissue glue can be useful for small wounds, mostly those that don’t gape open and that the edges naturally want to sit opposed. The wound edges do have to…

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We have just launched our Camelid Reproduction & Cria Care Intensive Course – this time in an easier-to-access on demand format. The Benefits of the Camelid Reproduction & Cria Care IntensiveWhat You’ll Get!Special OfferSpecial Offer Pricing on the Camelid Reproduction & Cria Care Intensive is available until 25th March! Click here to learn more and to register for the course.Also, if you missed my FREE training Reproduction Workshop last week, click here to listen to the replay and you’ll also learn more about the course! (Passcode: ?SPkumz9)

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This year, camelid owners around the world will, for the first time, be offered the chance to attend a virtual conference for owners, organised by us! The theme for this first online Camelid Owners’ Conference will be health with disease prevention and diagnosis.We have the following speakers confirmed:This is going to be a pretty comprehensive list of the world’s top veterinary speakers in the field of Camelid Medicine & Surgery. Definitely an opportunity not to be missed and the investment in your learning will be well-worthwhile.The dates of the conference are Thursday 22nd to Saturday 24th February. The timings for…

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I am excited to bring you the opportunity to transform your nutritional management for your alpaca or llama herd with the most comprehensive Camelid Nutrition Masterclass ever offered!Managing nutrition is at the root of animal husbandry, and is able to ensure optimal immunity as well as reproductive performance, and yet so few people know how to do this properly. Very few people bother to take the time to analyse the forages they feed their animals and so have little idea of what their animals have to work with and instead just top up with supplements, only stopping to consider whether there…

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Nutrition is absolutely central to caring for your alpacas. If you don’t get their nutrition right, it can lead you down the garden path so that you are constantly finding new problems in your herd. This means that you will struggle to find the time to actually enjoy your animals as you’re always trying to fix the issues! If you’re like most alpaca owners I know, you bought alpacas because they’re engaging, intriguing animals that bring pleasure and calm into your lives. If you can understand how to feed them, you can avoid so many problems:Getting nutrition right is so…

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I’m very pleased to announce my all-new Intensive Camelid Health Care Course is online and ON-DEMAND for the very first time! To take advantage of my Special Offer Launch price, please visit Intensive Camelid Health Care Course – On Demand to enrol! The course includes access to all the training materials through my training portal for a whole year, live Q&A support sessions online, comprehensive printed notes sent anywhere in the world – and homework suggestions to help you make the most of your training and put what you learn into practice straight away. There is also a private Facebook…

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We have been seeing a spike in faecal egg counts over the last week or so. This is most likely due to the wet weather we’ve been experiencing. Please go out and monitor your animals – body condition score, check mucous membrane colours, and check faecal egg counts! Even if you did them only 2-3 weeks ago, they may have increased. I would increase the frequency of checking BCS and mucous membrane colour too because things can change quickly under these conditions.Check out our Resources Page for helpful information on how to perform body condition scoring and how to check…

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Please note that the lab will be closed for the Christmas period, from 23rd December until 3rd January. Please don’t send any samples during this period as there will be nobody here to receive them and they won’t be processed! If you have a sick animal that you’d like a sample checking, please contact me on my mobile on 07769 271506 – but do not send any samples without speaking to me first! I will not be processing any routine samples. We hope you have a lovely Christmas and New Year!

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