Description
Llamas and Alpacas – A Guide to Management contains all the basic information required in order to keep these animals successfully and provides an invaluable insight into what keeping llamas and alapacas involves in terms of resources, housing, equipment and skills. It assumes no prior knowledge of llamas and alpacas, nor the husbandry of other domesticated species, and is ideal for the uninitiated as well as being a comprehensive reference source for the established camelid keeper. The book contains chapters that deal with land and housing, nutrition, husbandry and welfare, fleece evaluation, fleece marketing, animal assessment and showing, breeding, birth, the care of the newborn and common health problems.Designed to be a husbandry handbook, it aims to cover the basic knowledge required to keep llamas and alpacas successfully. Gina Bromage is an experienced veterinary surgeon who keeps alpacas. 371 p.
- Gina Bromage. DVM. British Veterinary Camelid Society, Yeovil, Somerset (UK).
- Publication date (reimpression original edition 2013 to digital version): 2015-06 – The Crowood Press.
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