Welcome to the podcast for alpaca people!

In this episode, I continue reflecting on the cria birthing season and how we can be prepared.

This includes talking to some people, including your vet, reading up and taking some courses - probably too late for this season, but there is always next year.

Birthing kitsI talked about them in some previous episodes. Check out:

• Episode 13 – Topical Alpaca Tips with Steve Heatherington
• Episode 22 – Expect the unexpected with Steve Heatherington
• Episode 24 – Jenny MacHarg part 2

Homestead Farm Supplies offers a kit to buy off the shelf. If you are not in the UK it is still worth a look to see what they include.

Courses and booksClaire Whitehead of UK Alpaca Vets offers a birthing course earlier in the year.

ABC - Antenatal, Birthing and Cria care is a good starter book, published in Australia

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it.

You can contact me by email - steve@alpacatribe.com - or leave me a voicemail from your browser.

Alpaca Tribe is hosted and produced by Steve Heatherington of Waterside Voices.

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