{"id":1116,"date":"2016-01-13T04:03:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T04:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2023-09-30T10:59:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T00:59:22","slug":"have-you-shorn-your-alpacas-yet-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/have-you-shorn-your-alpacas-yet-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you shorn your alpacas yet this season?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alpacas and llamas require annual shearing as they do not shed their fleece. At this time of the year, unshorn camelids are at risk of heat stress and fly-strike. If you have not already had your herd shorn this spring\/summer, get to it now so that they have enough fleece when the weather cools down in autumn. The Australian Alpaca Association has a list of alpaca shearers here: <a href=\"https:\/\/alpaca.asn.au\/alpaca-resources\/processing\/alpaca-shearers\/\">https:\/\/www.alpaca.asn.au\/resources\/alpaca-shearers<\/a>. As a courtesy to your shearer, provide a clean and shaded area to perform the task. Have bags ready to sort and store fleece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your shearer offers to vaccinate your herd at the same time, make sure the vaccine is in-date and been stored correctly (see <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CriaGenesis-Vacc-5-in-1a-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cria Genesis Alpaca PDF Note<\/a> (245kb) on vaccination) and new needles and syringes are used to maintain biosecurity on your farm. Preferably, perform vaccination yourself using your own vaccine and equipment for optimal quality control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may be prudent to trim toe nails when each animal is restrained for shearing. Ensure toenail clippers are on-hand and sharp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpacas and llamas require annual shearing as they do not shed their fleece. At this time of the year, unshorn camelids are at risk of heat stress and fly-strike. If you have&#8230; <a class=\"moretag hidemob\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/have-you-shorn-your-alpacas-yet-this-season\/\"> read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"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=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18680,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/18680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}