How to prepare for cria birthing season

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 HeatheringtonEpisode 22 – Expect the unexpected with Steve HeatheringtonEpisode 24 – Jenny MacHarg part 2Homestead 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 AustraliaThanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it.You can contact me by email - [email protected] - or leave me a voicemail from your browser.Alpaca Tribe is hosted and produced by Steve Heatherington of Waterside Voices. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy