A Different Sort of Fox Hunting

Was going to re-type all this into nice full articles but I'm lazy, so you'll have to deal with my brief notes that I need to elaborate on anyway for my assignment.

Monday 9 July
Aviaries - dodgey pigeon
- system of work
-rook
- one magpie that only eats chick

- couple of fox runs
-foxes fucking cute
-potential distemper outbreak
-barrier nursing
- lots of dishes to wash
-feeds, chum (puppy meat) and lots of chick for foxes chum for hogs
- top up corvids' feeds
-bunny sawed in half for fox cubs

Wednesday 11 July
-Small bird room
-Clean Feed Water
-ICU runs
-super cute ferret that ate a staff member
-changed bedding, let out in run
-'lost', and lack of interest in returning to hutch later in day
-Pole cats 1, system of work
-baby polecats system of work (changed bedding)
- fox cubs only eaten one bowl of chum and left 5 chicks, had to change bedding and they refused to leave box, had to enlist staff member's help
-dishes
-heron pool, fun splish splash, had to undo drain cover, elbow and knee deep in heron water
-more dishes
--should be an explanation of spider fox
-Spider fox got out in paddock
-spider fox hunting
-6ft thistles with thorns at eye height, elbow height nettles, towel,, fun, like hacking through jungle but more painful
-flushed him twice, left him, hopefully will go into humane trap
-top up pool 2 and corvid feeds
-clean up
-bunny sawing
-40 cockerels PTS




Now in South Africa,  getting my small truck license :D

too tired to post properly

Thursday 28 June
Outside for the first time, cleaned outdoor duckling runs and a goose pond. Scrubbed and disinfected a vacated aviary. Washed up a lot, found it cute how all the hog food bowls matched.
At 3:30 someone remembered that more ducklings had been moved outside, needed to be let out and cleaned. both lots had drank all their water, surprised they all lived, was boiling in their cabins.

Friday 29 June
Started cleaning ducklings, small ones in incubator  had run out of food and water over night. Found two dead. After cleaning out incubator and replacing ducklings notice one was highly inactive, continued duckling cleans, regularly checking up on it. About 10 it took it to the orphan room where it was given fluids and put in its own small incubator.
Replaced water belonging to remaining 7 ducklings with critical care formula, this is mixed with water and contains a variety of sugars and electrolytes.
Duckling taken away from companions died.
Continued to check on remaining ducklings, while one was more lethargic than others it appeared to   gain health/energy as the day went on and was seen drinking, despite this he also died.


Between checking on ducklings helped with cleans and feeds in orphan and fledgling rooms.


Monday 2 July
Did cleans and feeds in duckling and fledgling rooms. Once I was taught how to force feed meal worms to house martins I did so hourly. Time consuming process, 11 birds who each needed two worms, and they're tiny! Was so scared of hurting them, accidentally let a few go too. Woops.


Tuesday 3 July
Worked in a different section,the isolation corridor, with ducklings and fledglings. Got to hold big cygnets, want one, they're really cute, warm and fuzzy. New teeny tiny ducklings in incubator, 6 that survived Friday had been moved into a pen. Saw a tawny owl chick, a buzzard fledgling, juvenile buzzard, curious black headed gull and a couple of little owls today too