Change of weekends

Dear readers.

In life we do not always have everything as planned or do everything as set out previously. This I learnt the physical way, because it has happened to me. We have 4 second years and two staff members so divided it works out perfectly having every second weekend off. But now here is the catch, experience...

It has been decided that Christelle and I need to swap weekends to balance out the veterinary experience bit on each of the weekends and so this means I work two weekends in a row and get a few days off during the week and she gets her two weekends off so the switch happens in the end. This is where the work environment kicks in and you have to learn how to deal with it correctly so everyone walks away happy.

So in this working weekend we had a lot of jobs to conduct and thanx to Karen's helpful list every morning, we get things done! So we started off by cleaning out the fridge as there is blood everywhere and there are a lot of things that can be chucked because of the amount of time it has spent in there.

We had a bit of a surprise when we went to feed the aviary animals because to our dismay we found a bird wing, eaten half with the meat still attached to some of the bone. I immediately reported the find and found out that it is a rat infestation that is causing the death of our birds. We are planning on replacing the electric wire around the aviary and implementing a new system so they can not reach or enter the enclosure and hurt the birds.

We also have a daily routine to uphold and part of it is to prepare the milk feeds during the afternoon so a few feeds are already prepped for the next feeding. This helps us save time and the milk does not go sour as fast as it would have if not separating the feeds as soon as it arrives at the wlc.

 We also worked in a bit of class time lecturing them on cleaning and the things that they still short in their files. They only received their learning material in the past week so they are behind in their workbooks but we are working very hard at it and will try finish everything in this week as it is their last week at species care.

A quiet end to a busy weekend.