Camelid Connections Issue 11

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ALPACA Cria Teeth By Allison Quagliani

Incisors Alpaca crias are usually born with their first two front teeth, the other four baby teeth erup�ng over the next six months. These first incisors are deciduous incisors and they will be replaced star�ng at around two years old by permanent teeth. By four years old the alpaca will have all of its permanent incisors and should have lost all of its deciduous incisors.

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