Lots of our cria have never experienced rain before but they’ve had plenty of it today and yesterday. They don’t care and are zipping around as usual. Another three cria arrived yesterday, one of course in the wrong field. It was a Jaquinto female and two of us had to run about to catch it and do the navel. Typical Jaquinto, full of beans from the start with a very superior, stuff you, look.
Joshua is trying to cram everything into his rucksack for the big trip to the Amazon. He flies to Miami tomorrow and then on to Lima and then a local flight to the place where they catch the boat. We have managed to find all the green, organic soap stuff he has to have as no nasty chemicals are allowed into the research station. Eventually we found them in Mole Valley of all places where we went to buy him some wellies. We also bought this Mexican plant with dark red flowers that smell of chocolate – irresistable. The trouble is that he is taking climbing gear as well as after the Amazon he heads for the Bolivian mountains so it is going to be a very heavy rucksack.
We sent off a load of poo to the Royal Veterinary College on Monday and the results were sent through yesterday. Such a fast service and they use a modified Stoll test for camelids. When you send stuff to the VLA at Starcross it takes for ever. Our worm counts were very low and so was the coccidia. I rang the vet to ask whether we should treat but he said no they were far too low and a few is good as the animals build up immunity.