Routine Llama Health Checks

With the hope to help other livestock owners we have videoed and are uploading a few videos of the routine health maintenance checks we do every month on our different livestock species. 

Llama Video:

Click here to go to YouTube to watch video

Monthly we check:

*Body condition scoring, gotta get your hands on them (pic1)

*FAMACHA score (pic2)

    *Tells us if animal is anemic

        *Anemia points to possible parasite issue or MH

        *We perform fecal and deworm with appropriate drug (pic3)

        *Or we treat for the "silent killer" Mycoplasma (MH)

*Give injectable ivermectin (pic4) to prevent M-worm EVERY 30 days!

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*pic3*

*pic4*