Camelids
Our team of vets understand the specific needs of camelids. We provide both emergency care as well as tailored preventative health plans.
Our key areas of service include:
- Yearly herd health planning
- 24-hour emergency care
- Tailored parasite control plan including offering modified stolls faecal egg counts, specifically looking for E. macusaniensis
- Vaccination plans and reminders
- Nutritional advice
- Disease prevention and surveillance; knowledge of the diseases that alpacas can carry and contract from other species, and how to test for them
- TB testing
- Pregnancy scanning
- Routine foot trimming and dental care
- Imaging for dental disease at Langford Vets including radiographs and CT
- Neonatal care, including giving plasma transfusions when appropriate
- On site laboratory and analysis of blood samples
- Referral to Langford Vets for 24/7 care of high value animals and those that require complicated surgical procedures
