Alpaca Vaccinations

"Hi, I?m Jill Bergman, and I want to show you that every year Alpacas need to be vaccinated, and this is a Clostridium Perfringens type C and D Tetanus Toxoid, that's what this is right here. We give them to the, I'll show you actually how we even, can you open that for me? How we actually do this. We give two CC's, or two milliliters, of this vaccine, and draw it into the syringe. We have to save this. Make sure there's no bubble in the syringe. See the bubble? Ok, we've eliminated that, and what we do is, how we give this vaccine, I'm not actually going to do it because she doesn't need it right now, is we separate the fleece like this. We lift the skin up so it's like a tent here, you can see it's a tent, and I'm not going to give it to her but I would do, is I would put the needle in between the skin and the muscle tissue and inject it right there. That's called a subcutaneous injection. One other thing to when you give a medication into the body, before you insert the syringe we pull it back to make sure we haven't hit a blood vessel before we put it in, and then we poke it right in."