CAPTIVE
ANIMAL MANAGEMENT LEVEL 4
Subject: Logbook
Team members: 1st Years, 2nd
years, Lauren, Karen and Vaatjie.
This morning I worked out the scoring
sheet for the 1st year’s files on a big white sheet so they can keep
an eye on the percentage of their files.
We all came together at the owl
enclosure after the feeding to conduct spot checks with the new group and so we
also used the opportunity to teach them about animal behaviour. Lauren and
Karen taught them about each animal and what to keep in mind when working with
each of them.
Before lunch I took the group and
explained to them about the preparation of the milk, why we prepare future
feeds and how we calculate the amount of dencavite if the milk is not enough.
After lunch we had our OHS meeting scheduled but it did not take place as
planned. I conducted a lion interaction for 5 guests and then came the
highlight of the day, the pig slaughter.
We heard the bang of the truck on the
highway and a few minutes later we were called to go help load the pigs. The
truck was transporting farm pigs to be slaughtered but if they are bruised they
are not of much quality and they will be seen as waste. So we took this opportunity
to go load the pigs that were too injured and the pigs that had died in the
accident.
They were brought to the wildlife centre to be
cut in half, to remove the intestines and then used as meat for the animals.
The only problem here was that the amount of pigs counted up to 30 and the
fridge was not cold enough to freeze that much meat. Some of the pigs also went
to the township on Sondela because the fridge was too full already.
The pigs
were slaughtered until 7pm that night and we cleaned the fridge afterwards to
get most of the smell and blood away. We threw salt on the ground where the
blood puddles were sitting because it needs to sterilize the soil so the
bacteria does not grow and make the animals sick when they eat from the ground.
This evening I am on night shift with Cynthia.
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