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What is a quarantine drench?

When you bring new animals onto your farm, you do not want to bring on any drench-resistant worms that may be lurking within. Therefore, you should “quarantine drench” all new alpacas to… read more

Worm control in alpacas

Good news! A new, 3-year alpaca gastrointestinal parasite project has just started at the University of Melbourne, in conjunction with RIRDC and AAA. Until more is known about alpaca parasite species, behaviour, drenching etc … information from… read more

Drench classes …

There are 5 different drench groups/classes you should be aware of when treating gastrointestinal worms. Generally speaking, if  you have drench resistance to one product within a group, there will be drench… read more