Parasite Treatment whilst in Quarantine for Export

Parasite treatment whilst in quarantine
I thought i would update breeders of what happens in quarantine as procedures required to send alpacas through NZ.
All alpacas have been tested for all parasites including Coccidia, and all alpacas have to be Zero for all eggs, and oocysts.

Importantly, all Australian alpacas are clean, and disease free when they leave Australia.
for more information please go to http://mariahhillalpacaexport.homestead.com/testing.html

I feel privileged to have the honor to look and care for so many beautiful and often high valued alpacas.
I take my exporters license seriously, only three people in Australia is licensed to take the responsibility of exporting Alpacas.
I was the first Alpaca Breeder in Australia to be exporting alpacas overseas, and i have exported 95% of the alpacas from Australia in the last 6 years.
I take the responsibility seriously, that is why, we also purposely built a quarantine facility, which now has been extended approx 8 times, and now comprises of 3 separate quarantine facilities.
We have acheived alot over the years with the creation of not just one new protocol but three in total, with the process of another two.


When Alpacas go into Quarantine, we are preparing the alpacas for export.To do this we have to prepare them to the wishes and directions of the
Importing or Destination country.
Whilst the alpacas are in the quarantine facility...the Land is
under the Destination country's legislation, not Australia's,
AQIS overseas the quarantine to make sure that the protocols
for the destination country are met.

Nematodes
TREATMENT: SPECIAL REGIME HAS BEEN WORKED OUT BY AUSTRALIA'S LEADING PARASATOLOGISTS, TO ACHIEVE THE EXPORT AIM
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TESTING SAMPLES ARE TAKEN ON 2 OCCASSIONS TO CONFIRM NEGATIVE TO SALMONELLA. IF ANY POSITIVES DO OCCUR, THEN THE ALPACA CONCERNED WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE GROUP, BUT REMAINS IN QUARANTINE IN A SPECIAL ISOLATION AREA UNTIL THE SHIPMENT DEPARTS
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A NOTE ON Q FEVER - ALPACA
ALPACAS UP TO DATE HAVE NEVER TESTED POSITIVE TO Q FEVER

Coxiella Burnetii IS THE ORGANISM RESPONSIBLE FOR Q fEVER, WHICH BELONGS TO THE RITICIA fAMILY, BUT IS VERY DIFFERENT TO ANY TYPE OF RITICIA...the treatment and Control for Q fever, (Coxiella burnetii), Tetracyclines and Chloramphenicol are the drugs of choice.
Cattle, sheep, and goats are the primary reservoirs of C. burnetii. Infection has been noted in a wide variety of other animals, including other species of livestock and in domesticated pets. Coxiella burnetii does not usually cause clinical disease in these animals, although abortion in goats and sheep has been linked to C. burnetii infection. Organisms are excreted in milk, urine, and feces of infected animals. Most importantly, during birthing the organisms are shed in high numbers within the amniotic fluids and the placenta. The organisms are resistant to heat, drying, and many common disinfectants. These features enable the bacteria to survive for long periods in the environment. Infection of humans usually occurs by inhalation of these organisms from air that contains airborne barnyard dust contaminated by dried placental material, birth fluids, and excreta of infected herd animals. Humans are often very susceptible to the disease, and very few organisms may be required to cause infection.
Method of diagnosis
Acute and some chronic manifestations of Q fever can be diagnosed by serology.

Acute Q fever can be diagnosed by a fourfold rise in specific complement fixation (CFT), the preferred testing methid for the above protocol.
Incubation period
The incubation period is typically 19–21 days although the range is from two weeks to two months.
Measrurements are in Titre, which starts off as 1 :4, 1:8, 1:16, 1:32 (normal cut off, four fold the norm, for sheep, cattle, goats, and humans), 1:64 1:128, (the level NZ require as the cut off value).
NZ MAF new clause in their import permit conditions relating to the Q fever test to not allow any camelid which had previously tested positive for export to NZ.
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