(Wild one)

Dear readers.

Getting back to work after an off weekend is tough but not when you have the friendly animals of the centre to come back to. Comming back also means we have to get used to any newly arrived animals and this past weekend was a parturition weekend. The farmyard kept sending us baby goats and sheep as soon as they were born because at one stage the baby is deformed and then the mother keeps rejecting the little one.

We need to make sure the babies get collostrum and we need to make sure that they are warm and comfortable with a mother or companion with them in the enclosure. In other news we have 2 new volenteers that have arrived and they have been a big help. They help in daily activities and sit and play with the babies so they can get used to human contact. We now have Ocean from France, Audri from France and a vet student from town that came to help us because the practice is quiet today.

Scarlet our baby caracal.

Choppie, the lamb found in the freestate

Appollo, our serval kitten and companion to Scarlet.

Feeding the kid goat on night shift.

The mother goats in the outside boma

The cats are getting very big and today we received an Nyala bull carcass that was dead at mosselleselle tent camp. We needed the meat and this profound event just happened to save us for another couple of days. The 1st year students are busy with the body and the centre is doing very well with boskos orders as ssb keeps asking for more packages. We also have a newly arrived Oryx once again and she is a couple of days old which means there is a good chance that she received collostrum from her mother and will survive. 

The run over hare we found this morning, used as feed.