What, you may wonder, does one do when an alpaca needs medicine? Is it EASY to give them medicine? Well, I guess that depends on your definition of 'easy'.
This past month there were two pens of animals that needed medicine, so out came the caulking gun!
That's right, they use a caulking gun to shoot the meds down the animal's throat. As you can imagine, the alpacas aren't all jumping into line for this experience. It worked out well with four people, though. You get all the animals into the pen, with the false promise of grain, and then catch and 'caulk'.
One or two hold the animal
One holds caulking gun
One has the paper with list of animals and number of 'clicks' it should get of medicine
Sadly I have no photos because there really was no practical way to take pictures as a participant.
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