{"id":724,"date":"2014-09-30T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T11:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criagenesis.cc\/?p=724"},"modified":"2015-12-06T02:44:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T02:44:06","slug":"weaning-alpacas-dont-forget-to-drench-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/weaning-alpacas-dont-forget-to-drench-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaning alpacas? Don&#8217;t forget to drench them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At weaning time, don&#8217;t forget to perform an individual faecal egg count (FEC) on each of your alpaca weaners BEFORE drenching them, and again 12 days later.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first, pre-drench, FEC tells you how wormy that individual is &#8211; genetically, some will be wormier than others. Useful as a tool for future selection against worms? Possibly.<\/li>\n<li>The second, post-drench, FEC tells you the efficacy of the drench used. An effective drench must\u00a0reduce the original count by 95%. E.g. If the first, pre-drench, FEC was 450 eggs per gram (epg) and the second, post-drench FEC was 50 epg, then the drench was [100 &#8211; (50\/450 x 100)] = 89% effective. This is not regarded as an effective drench and another product from another drench group should be used, and another FEC performed 12 days later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At weaning time, don&#8217;t forget to perform an individual faecal egg count (FEC) on each of your alpaca weaners BEFORE drenching them, and again 12 days later. The first, pre-drench, FEC tells&#8230; <a class=\"moretag hidemob\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/weaning-alpacas-dont-forget-to-drench-them\/\"> read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}