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| title | "A Zookeepers Life #6 Hand-raising animals" |
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| body | "One of the fundamental rules of any zoo is to partake in conservation breeding to establish an insurance policy group of animals against extinction. My zoo is no different, successfully breeding endangered white rhinos as an example which if you ever have the opportunity to meet a rhino then do it- it will change your life.
Sadly, what comes with breeding animals also can come with problems where the mothers of the young can either die, become ill and struggle to feed their young, abandon their young or even worse kill their young. As zookeepers, the last thing we want to do is take an animal in for hand raising, we do everything in our power to ensure that mother and baby bond and she raises it herself. Even to this day it is assumed that zoos hand-raise all their animals and this couldn’t be further from the truth. Yet there are occasions where we must make the tough decisions that are based on many factors when we need to pull the young such as:
1. Will taking the baby from its mother cause any distress- has she already bonded? Have they been together for a while?
2. What are the consequences of raising the young? Will it affect them long-term? Will they be able to breed once it has reached maturity?
3. How long will it need 1-1 care from keepers?
4. Do you have enough experienced staff to raise the young?
5. If it is a large carnivore will you remove its fear of humans?
6. If it is a social animal, will it integrate back into the group without problems?
The list goes on! It is a real nice idea to take an animal home, care for it, feed it, develop that kind of bond with them but this can be detrimental to the health and well-being of that animal. Each time this situation arises which isn’t very often fortunately the decision is made very carefully of what would be best for that animal and not for the keepers.
For my section we only have one species as part of a breeding program that we are awaiting the arrival of a male from another zoo so hopefully in the future there may be a post about some endangered babies. In the mean time we have been very successful, where other zoos have not, in breeding our Rainbow Lorikeets through the vast experience some of our chicks have taught us.
It began when two of our Rainbow Lorikeet birds decided to lay an egg within a wall they had chewed through and the chick hatched in 2015, that we had to make a decision on what to do once she got too big. We had never hand-raised a lorikeet before and had no idea what to do, we called around a few places to get some advice and decided to take the aviary apart after 3 weeks and get the chick and the parents out and put them in a spare aviary, hoping the parents will . Sadly, the parents abandoned the chick and it left us having to raise the bird on our own.
My word did this bird scream at us, we placed her in a large container with a heat matt and towel and every 2 hours offered her food on the bent spoon. Lorikeets are not seed eaters and eat a specialist diet of nectar, fortunately we get this in for our main group of birds and all we had to do was mix it with water, heat it up and mix in an apple fruit puree. Sounds simple? Try getting a baby bird that has not seen a human before to eat from a huge spoon, it was a complete nightmare! After a few days, the little bird got the hang of it to our relief and started putting on weight. During this time, we kept comprehensive records of her growth so that if we ever had to do it again we could see exactly what she was fed, how many times a day, how much weight she lost and gained, when she fledged, when she started to feed herself, when we DNA tested her and put a ring on her leg and when we put her with the main group.
I won’t ever forget the day I took her home. I had been feeding her daily at the zoo so I was quite happy in her aftercare. The family couldn’t wait to meet her and see what a baby lorikeet looked like, I took her out of her carrier for feeding and everyone took photos and wanted to play with the little baby bird. I let her sit and watch for a while once she had fed before letting her go back in the carrier to sleep. She slept right through the night and did not require overnight feeds (fortunately for me!). Lots of keepers took it in turns to take her home until she reached approximately 42 days when she began to feed herself properly meaning we were no longer required to help.
Excuse the fringe...!
When she was 50 days old she decided it was time to finally start flying so we pulled some chest feathers from her and sent them for a DNA check to see if she would be a girl or a boy and going by what I have written can you guess? Yep she’s a girl! Her ID number is 11 and ever since she joined the main group she has been nothing but trouble.
Number 10
She had partnered with a second hand raised bird number 10 who is a handsome fella, yet they decide that sitting right by the main doors is the best idea because the food comes through there so they bombard people as soon as the flaps open! They also defend their nest site (ironically on the floor dug into the pond wall) so anyone who sticks their fingers in there gets a sharp bite and if 11 sees her favourite keepers they are not leaving the building. That bird clings on to every part of you and absolutely LOVES keys! Give her a bunch of keys and it’s her best day.
Nothing gives a keeper more pride in seeing the animal you helped raise grow up, pair up with another animal and breed themselves. Number 11 & 10 have not yet had their own chick as they are only now just reaching sexual maturity and hopefully they will be able to raise their chick on their own.
Hand raising has its challenges and I will share more about certain animals I have hand raised over the past few years. 11 taught me a lot about patience and care and thanks to the knowledge we have gained from her we have 100% hand rear success rate from all our chicks and have raised a total of 8 birds before we allowed the parents to do it themselves. Most difficult were these two when we sadly lost the hen and they were very well developed, it took a towel and not touching them and the use of a syringe to feed them yet they are now living perfectly well and healthy in the main group!
Not all animals can be successfully hand raised and there are times we have lost young from our attempts to save their lives. it is the hardest part of our jobs but without our help some of these species would no longer exist.
I hope you enjoyed today's post. Any questions please feel free to ask!
**Please resteem, upvote and follow me for more**" |
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What it takes daily for success means something different for everyone. Yet some keys linger as commonalities I find the older I get.
But I desire a simpler life, the more I have given away and the longer I have lived.
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## I am turning this into a series. (Edited into / on the 7th day of the 1st post I did on this since writing it)
#### I thought about this for a whole week, and it has been 7 days since I wrote this and read about Thoreau and his life and it has truly impacted me enough to carry this message and this fellow's beliefs forward for others. At the last minute here before the first week of this post-series pays out-- I came back to it, made the edits and committments to carry this forwards long term.
#### I will include this template with each post and inside each post you will find a quote from Thoreau, towards the end of each of these posts in this series. Past episodes I will include near the end also, to keep the focus on this man who has inspired me from the 1850's and hope it helps someone out there also.
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Henry David Thoreau's thoughts on moving towards our dreams is something many of us have seen and read.
The following quote is only a small part of what Thoreau would feel, and then share in his writings following his 2 year off grid, backwoods experiment at Walden Pond in the 1850's and it inspires me:
> “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
> He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
I have pasted that screenshot text from WikiPedia, at the end of my blog. It fascinates me.
-- Why???
> Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.[2] The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance.[3]
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-- My love of Bushcraft, the simple life, the outdoors/ living off grid, is 110% tied to this and causes me to think differently than I did years ago as I seek TRUE liberty, away from the propaganda, lies, and violence of "the state" and the corruption surrounding it.
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As I mentioned earlier, it means different things, to different people.
> What does success look like, what does success mean to me?
Many of us have asked ourselves this question a pile of times over the years. An example of a typical list might look like:
-- Travel more, enrich our lives and knowledge
-- Deepen our knowledge of Crypto and Blockchain wisdom for more Liberty
-- To earn enough money to achieve financial freedom.
-- Find and deepen the right relationships
-- Buy a waterfront vacation home
-- Find a place that is not filled with corruption
-- Spend more time with friends and family
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These are relateable to many of us, I bet.
However, they are the results of success, not success itself. We can have these or similar things..... and be really miserable in our lives, and therefore NOT successful.
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I like to help people but frankly am sick and tired of being left behind, forgotten about, stabbed in the back....... when I try and do the right thing or help others.
It bothers me. I am human. I have feelings and I care.
It is making me numb.
And I hate it.
I really try to approach it the best, most healthy way I can -- but it wears on you day after day. You question if it is worth it really.
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I will keep trying.
It's important that we advance within ourselves with the knowledge and tools and right heart to do what we need to do.
I think this is the fundamental part of the equation inside for success from *within*; you cannot buy it at a seminar or with the latest app, or marketing tool.
I really am sick of the lies, of the state, the statists and sheep backing up the police state, while I really desire a simpler, off grid, self reliant lifestyle....
-- of course fought at every turn by THE STATE.
Sunlight, water, solar power, collecting rainwater, a garden for food since it was free decades ago, and such.
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## Yes, are we really free????
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## Today's Thoreau Quote:
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Walden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> This article is about the book by Henry David Thoreau. For other uses, see Walden (disambiguation).
Walden
Walden Thoreau.jpg
> Original title page of Walden featuring a picture drawn by Thoreau's sister Sophia.
Author Henry David Thoreau
Original title Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Country United States
Language English
Genre Memoir
> Published August 9, 1854[1] (Ticknor and Fields: Boston)
Media type Print
> Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
> The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.[2] The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance.[3]
> First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
> Thoreau used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.
> By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period.
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## Past Episodes:
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https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@barrydutton/48f2zt-liberty-and-philosophy-post-of-the-day-government-corruption-the-police-state-left-right-paradigm-of-lies-ruined-water-food
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@barrydutton/bitcoin-in-canadastan-smashes-past-usd10-300-1-year-ago-today-it-just-broke-the-usd1000-mark-perspective-is-important-so-i
https://steemit.com/freedom/@barrydutton/2010-election-city-council-barry-promises-10-of-city-council-salary-donated-to-charity-write-up-in-the-national-media-toronto
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@barrydutton/off-grid-homesteading-self-reliance-lifestyle-the-grid-fights-to-keep-you-in-the-matrix-for-2-reasons-only-by-and-large-e-4
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