Shooting the Llama

With antibiotics, that is.  He has conjunctivitis and as much as I was pretending it would be okay for the last 2 days, it was just getting worse.  So we had to corner him so I could give him a shot of oxytetracycline (really, 2 shots, since he had to have 10 ccs and you can't inject 10 ccs in one spot, so you have to give it in two separate injections), and he had to have some terramycin ointment in his eye.

Actually, it went fine, believe it or not.  Well, as fine as wrangling a llama could go.  Nobody was spat upon.

In other news, we are very sad to report that while Tango's three babies are lovely and sweet, we have noticed that two of them were born with a cleft palate.  It does not interfere with their eating, so for now we will just leave them be, but we need to get to the bottom of it. It could be that their bloodlines are too inbred (not really likely, since the parents do share common bloodlines, but they are not too recent), or that the doe ate something poisonous.  I would rather it be the latter, believe it or not.  On the one had, that means that if she ate a poisonous plant, it's likely that ALL the does ate the same thing and may have the same consequences. However, it is a fixable problem.  Though fixing our pastures is no small (or inexpensive) task.

You know, if it's not one thing, it's another.  For now we will just enjoy these sweet, lovely little babies.  We have another doe due tomorrow, and another Wednesday.

Life goes on.