Rescue, Rehab, Release
This tiny 20g hoglet came in at 11 o’clock tonight, so 2 hourly feeds it is…
It is approximately 36 hours old as it has all its white spines but no brown ones yet.
It was a cold on arrival so we had to warm it up before we could try to feed it. It did wee when we toileted it, so that was good.
It has had half a ml of formula and is now in one of our incubators. Next feed due at 2a.m
Baby, look at you now! Drummer looking better every day. He still has some ringworm crusting around his ears, which
Flystrike (Myiasis) is a painful, sometimes fatal, condition caused by flies laying eggs on another animal, usually in wounds or on sick animals.
We receive many cases of hogs suffering with flystrike, and it is a very time consuming job to clean it off manually. Because of this, we have purchased a portable suction machine which will help us clean hogs with fly strike, among other things
A new entry this morning – male hedgehog – has lost one eye to apparent old injury and now gone blind in the other eye. He was found blundering around, bumping into things during the daytime.
