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Is Progesterone Testing for the Birds?

My usual way of breeding is to have female alpacas come to my farm and breed where I have control of the situation. Last year, for a variety of reasons some of my customers and I decided to bring my boys to their girls and do mobile breedings at their farm. I made several trips [...]

March 15th, 2010 | Tags: 3 seconds, alpaca, alpaca breeding, Alpacas, breedings, customer service, false positives, female alpacas, pregnancy diaganosis in alpacas, pregnancy testing, progesterone, progesterone testing, retained cl, ultrasounds, veterinarian, vets | Category: Alpacas, Good Breeding, Husbandry | Comments (5)

Question of the Day: Who’s Pregnant?

Today we are doing ultrasounds. On our farm the alpacas are hand-bred, meaning that we put a female and a male in a run together and they breed. We observe this and record the information. Two weeks later we repeat this process. Once the female is pregnant she will spit at the male when we [...]

February 13th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, behavior test, Camilio, conception, Doe, Magnum, Misty Maiden, pregnancy, pregnant, Shawnee, Sheila, spitting off, ultrasound, veterinarian | Category: Alpacas, Good Breeding, The Daily Stuff | Comments (6)