A 2-year-old female intact huacaya alpaca weighing 66.6 kg presented for the removal of a bone sequestrum from distal femur. Nerve stimulator-guided femoral and sciatic nerve blocks were applied to provide analgesia surgery. The simple perform using existing equipment current techniques translated small animals. reported here both in an can be used as alternative ultrasound-guided approach, esp...

Ovulation in camelids is induced by an unidentified protein in the seminal plasma of the male termed 'ovulation-inducing factor'. This protein has been reported to be a 14-kDa protein under reducing conditions, which, when purified from seminal plasma, induces ovulation in llamas. The identification of this protein and investigation of its potential to induce ovulation in camelids may aid the d...

We aimed to quantify the number, type and arrangement of skin follicles in Huacaya and Suri alpaca skin and correlate their follicle characteristics with fibre traits of harvested fibre and compared these relationships with those of Merino sheep. Fibre and skin samples were collected from the mid-side of 12 Huacaya alpacas, 24 Suri alpacas and 10 Merino sheep. The mean fibre diameter (MFD s.e.)...

doi: 10.1136/vr.d5287 Histopathology of the lung, lymph node, kidney, liver and mammary gland identified multifocal coagulative necrosis surrounded by large numbers of degenerate leucocytes, small numbers of activated macrophages and fibroblasts. Ziehl-Neelsen staining identified moderate to large numbers of acid-fast bacilli in all tissues. These findings are consistent with disseminated M bov...