Matters needing attention in raising alpaca

Alpaca as a new breeding project, its products made of alpaca hair are favored by many people, and many people have grasped this new prospect industry in China and began large-scale breeding. But after all, there are not many experienced farmers, so we do not have a correct breeding management method, how to make alpaca grow high-quality hair, how to manage its normal growth and development. It is the first problem that many people have to solve now, so the editor brings you some points for attention during alpaca breeding.

1. Serial number

When raising alpacas, numbering is the most important, because numbering can not only effectively plan seed selection, but also prevent inbreeding. Numbering alpaca is an indispensable management project in alpaca breeding and management. The numbering work can be done with ear tags, hang the numbering on the sheep's ears, avoid blood vessels, and then disinfect it with iodine where the holes are to be punched. Prevent the wound from becoming inflamed and bleeding.

2. Immunity

Vaccination of alpaca is a method to immunize alpaca automatically, and it can effectively prevent and control infectious diseases. Because the immune mechanism of alpaca is relatively slow, but the incidence is relatively high, and it is difficult to control, the disease is the most serious to alpaca, and it will also cause inestimable losses to farmers. When immunized, alpacas can be injected with foot-and-mouth disease type O for one second. Each spring and autumn once a year, mainly to prevent and control foot-and-mouth disease occurred in the epidemic.

3. Deworming

Deworming is to better protect the hair of alpacas and reduce hair damage. First of all, medicine baths can be used to reduce parasites on alpacas and prevent parasites from absorbing nutrients of hair, resulting in a decline in hair quality. It is carried out once a year in spring and autumn, and the rest of the time is determined according to the growth of alpacas and the breeding environment. Before taking a bath, prepare drugs that can remove parasites, such as trichlorfon, grind the tablets into powder, mix them into water in proportion, and keep the water temperature at about 40 degrees to prevent alpacas from catching cold. Can also be injected with insect repellent needle, take insect repellent medicine and so on.

4. Sand bath

Alpacas have a natural hobby, that is, they like to roll in the sand, commonly known as sand baths. The reason why the quality of alpaca wool is much better than wool is that the fiber of alpaca wool is finer than that of sheep, and its elasticity and toughness are better. If the alpaca is wrapped around some sundries, these sundries will wrap the alpaca hair together and reduce the quality of the hair. Therefore, giving alpaca sand bath can effectively remove sundries from alpaca. Prepare the right amount of sand and let them play, which can not only effectively satisfy the interests of alpacas, but also wash the sundries down. It should be noted that the clean sand needs to be replaced every evening.

5. Shearing

Alpaca breeding is for alpaca hair, so it needs to be sheared once a year. It is important to cut alpaca hair smoothly when shearing. First of all, it is necessary to comb alpaca hair. Comb the alpaca hair smoothly, prevent the hair from winding during shearing, tighten the skin of the alpaca and prevent it from being cut to the meat of the alpaca. Do a good job of storing the cut hair, place insect repellents, and pay attention to prevent the discoloration of alpaca hair.

These are some of the things we need to pay attention to when raising alpacas. When raising alpacas, the first thing we should pay attention to is deworming immunity. Because there are not many diseases harmful to alpacas, the most harmful one is foot-and-mouth disease, so if we do a good job of immunization, we can effectively prevent the occurrence of diseases. Improving the breeding quality of alpaca can also effectively enhance the economic interests of farmers. This article is for reference only. I hope it will be helpful to you.