Medical behavior training is essential for all species, and training our mini-donkeys, goats, and alpacas will advance your skills like nothing else! As a student in our The Ranch Experience course, you can choose medical behavior training as your skill-development focus or choose from four other options. Hands-on training sessions with our resident animals may include desensitization techniques, increasing tactile acceptance, getting used to new equipment, or specific medical behaviors, dependi

At #RanchKPCT, our alpacas are progressing quickly with halter training! In this video you'll see that we affix the halters to the fence, so the alpacas learn to move towards them. We also feed them through their halters to get them over their initial discomfort around the halters. We use a soft, verbal "good," as the alpacas startle with a clicker. Check out training videos with our other resident Ranch animals and consider joining us for a course in 2019! http://bit.ly/2FoGpa5 | Karen Pryor Cl

Drench day today. One of the reasons we do all the handling with the cria is to make them easy to do husbandry tasks with. Here is kingsman giving a perfect demo. The handler is my husband Simon. We give a mineral supplement drench every 5 weeks, just to make sure they have sufficient levels, as we don’t have much in our natural environment for the (these vitamins/minerals are much mordd we available in the Andes). They also get their daily mineral suppliment (Camelibra) and vitamins A,D and E (