Sorry this is a bit late. I fell asleep when I got home!
We had a few more patients in today. The most interesting is a lapwing. None of us had ever seen one before. They are migrating over Surrey at the moment, and this one flew into something. He is fine now and should be able to go soon. Amy went out and dug up some lovely fresh worms for him, which he really enjoyed. He isn't at all nervous of people.
The M23 owl is now in one of the outside aviaries (called flights) and is doing very well. The rabbit has been released.
This morning Sara got a call to collect a sick deer, which had been found right next to her (Sara's) house. It was bought in by ambulance, on a stretcher. It was very thin and suffering from a very nasty complaint called `scouring`. I won't go into details as some of you might have just had dinner, but it the grass eating animal's version of gastro-enteritis. He/she was cleaned up, but then stopped breathing. Sara started CPR and gave a stimulant injection, and it started breathing again, much to everyone's relief. It is now in a shed with a nice heat lamp and lots of straw. Deer are very difficult to treat as they can die from stress. As we were leaving Sara was preparing a bowl of sugar beet for it, when it came round. Beet has lots of energy and calories to help build it up.Fingers crossed.
We also have an adult badger. Sara thinks he has a fractured pelvis. She said the X ray was inconclusive, but he was walking with an odd gait, so that is the most likely cause. He is being feed liquidised dog food and bread with honey. Badgers have a very sweet tooth, they also like jam and digestive biscuits. Foxes like swiss roll and custard creams.
Other patients included a very underwieght hedgehog with wobbly legs, another hog with ringworm and a pigeon with Pigeon Pox. It is a form of cancer but is contagious. They catch it from other birds, and it causes lumps on feet, wings and beak. It can be treated if caught early enough. The coughing hedgehog is still there too, but isn't coughing as much.
I syringe fed eight pigeons and doves by myself, so thats another box ticked on my training schedule.
The estimated arrival of cubs in now around 14th/15 March. Can't wait for that.
Of all the birds and beasts we now have, what did I get bitten by? A thrush!! It bit right into my thumb. Flippin` hurt too.
Off for an early night now. I have promised myself a craft day tomorrow.
Sue



Badger being syringe fed, lapwing and roe deer.
These were taken on my spervisors mobile, so sorry the quality is not great.
We had a few more patients in today. The most interesting is a lapwing. None of us had ever seen one before. They are migrating over Surrey at the moment, and this one flew into something. He is fine now and should be able to go soon. Amy went out and dug up some lovely fresh worms for him, which he really enjoyed. He isn't at all nervous of people.
The M23 owl is now in one of the outside aviaries (called flights) and is doing very well. The rabbit has been released.
This morning Sara got a call to collect a sick deer, which had been found right next to her (Sara's) house. It was bought in by ambulance, on a stretcher. It was very thin and suffering from a very nasty complaint called `scouring`. I won't go into details as some of you might have just had dinner, but it the grass eating animal's version of gastro-enteritis. He/she was cleaned up, but then stopped breathing. Sara started CPR and gave a stimulant injection, and it started breathing again, much to everyone's relief. It is now in a shed with a nice heat lamp and lots of straw. Deer are very difficult to treat as they can die from stress. As we were leaving Sara was preparing a bowl of sugar beet for it, when it came round. Beet has lots of energy and calories to help build it up.Fingers crossed.
We also have an adult badger. Sara thinks he has a fractured pelvis. She said the X ray was inconclusive, but he was walking with an odd gait, so that is the most likely cause. He is being feed liquidised dog food and bread with honey. Badgers have a very sweet tooth, they also like jam and digestive biscuits. Foxes like swiss roll and custard creams.
Other patients included a very underwieght hedgehog with wobbly legs, another hog with ringworm and a pigeon with Pigeon Pox. It is a form of cancer but is contagious. They catch it from other birds, and it causes lumps on feet, wings and beak. It can be treated if caught early enough. The coughing hedgehog is still there too, but isn't coughing as much.
I syringe fed eight pigeons and doves by myself, so thats another box ticked on my training schedule.
The estimated arrival of cubs in now around 14th/15 March. Can't wait for that.
Of all the birds and beasts we now have, what did I get bitten by? A thrush!! It bit right into my thumb. Flippin` hurt too.
Off for an early night now. I have promised myself a craft day tomorrow.
Sue



Badger being syringe fed, lapwing and roe deer.
These were taken on my spervisors mobile, so sorry the quality is not great.


