Thanks to our farm sitter who helped little Andele through the Christmas period. When we returned he was up and about but still thin and not eating very much. His battery of blood and fecal tests all came up inconclusive. We did notice though that he was regularily eating hay but not fighting for the grain or alpaca mash. We even tried bottle feeding but there was limited response.
On the Sunday we moved him to the other crias which we had placed in the weaning pen. Last night I observed him eating grain and this morning eating the mash. Hopefully he has turned the corner and will start to recover and add weight to his thin frame.
What was originally wrong though is still a mystery.
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