130+ animals

Hello everyone! Last week I walked through the door to WBR to Hope and Kelly IV-ing a new fawn that came in the night before.  Unfortunately, she was not doing well when she came in and did not make it. There was only one group of squirrels that were being syringe fed still, everyone else was weaned.  I syringe fed the 10 bunnies (THEY TAKE FOREVER) and they are finally getting used to being fed and taking a little less time to finish. Once they are syringe fed, their incubator is cleaned out and they are given lettuce, pealed apple chunks, and a little bowl (or baby food cap) full of baby food applesause and sweet potatoes. I then gave water to and fed the outside cages of squirrels and changed the foxes water. There are still groups of squirrels out in the barn waiting to be put into the outside cage. They were cleaned and fed, then it was time to round up the fawns for feeding! Ruddy, the fawn that was found in a rivine, has been doing very well, even though he's blind in one eye, and was put out with the other fawns Monday and loved it! The company of other fawns is good for him. The crates of lettuce were sorted and we called it a day.

Tuesday I fed the squirrels, bunnies-feeding much faster!, got to see the little red squirrel that came in Monday night, had the 6 unviable opossums die, cleaned and fed the barn squirrels, and fed the fawns.

Thursday fed the squirrels, flying squirrels, realized there were two squirrels loose in the nursery room and had to catch them. They gnawed out of their carrier. Yes, they are definitely getting too big to be inside. Then did the barn squirrels, washed dishes and cleaned out holding tanks. The last task of the day was cleaning out the chicken coop with the other Ashley. It was gross. They made a huge mess and since it hasn't been cleaned out all winter, it was just delicious......I mean, I have chickens and this was just, EWW. But anyway, the hay and whatnot was shoveled out and new hay was put in.

I usually only do Monday, Tuesday, and Thursdays but I also did Sunday this week because she is short on help on weekends. The squirrels were fed, along with the new addition of a baby squirrel, the flyers were cleaned and fed, the rest of the squirrels inside were cleaned out and given their bowl of food, the bunnies were fed (YES, they aren't being syringe fed anymore. hehe. although I did find a dead one..), then we went out and fed the 18 fawns. The outside cages were fed. As you probably noticed, it's all pretty routine, the inside babies, the outside cages, then the barn. A new squirrel was brought in and I helped the people that brought it in fill out the paperwork about it. Every animal brought in gets a number so that people can call in and see how the animals they brought in are doing. This one has head trauma, probably hit by a car, but (as of today) he is doing well.  When I went down to do the barn squirrels, I found one of the squirrels laying on the bottom of it's cage. Hope said it probably had a stroke, and it ended up passing away. Then after laundry, dishes, and everything was done, we went down the the barn to do the second fawn feeding. They get fed three times a day. Two of them have infected umbilical cords, so they were caught and treated, and the two that are in the house (Ruddy and Tulip, since she won't eat and Ruddy can't fend off the flies that were on him) were given shots of Vitamin B to help them out.

Today was the usual, squirrels, bunnies, barn squirrels, dishes, fawns, and going through crates of lettuce.

I apologize for any typing errors, but I wrote this quick because my laptop charger doesn't work, so my laptop is dead, and I'm on a different computer.