Today I was the only intern on the farm due to the girls presenting about Pasado's to an elementary school somewhere in Seattle. I worked the farm shift with Jennifer which included feeding the pigs, goats, sheep, llamas, cows, donkey, miniature horses, chickens, ducks, turkeys, and maybe more. We also mucked the Narn barn completely and put in new bedding. I took my lunch and I came back to help Jennifer at Reiner. We washed out feed buckets and filled them with pm and am meals for certain horses. Medicating was next where we applied medicine and treated different horses. We started with Wall-E, where we applied ointment to an infected area in his ear and guided him through neck exercises because he has arthritis. We then moved on to Onie and another horse that I forgot the name of to wash Onie's legs down and apply Vaseline to the other horse's trach. Yes there is a horse here with a trach/ stoma. It's pretty cool :P.
We quickly finished up at Reiner and headed back to the main farm so that I could assist Diane in cleaning the dog homes. I finished that, had a little chat with Diane because I have never met her before, and went back to helping Jennifer out on farm duties. She was catching chickens to rearrange where they're staying to decrease plucking and fighting. While we were trying to catch some chickens I found a dead one and was quite caught off guard. Jennifer and I bagged it up and put it in the refrigerator with the other bodies. It might sound a little morbid, but it's realty. Anyway, Jennifer explained to me about the white hens and how they die off often because they were breed to lay lots of eggs and then die off. They also came from a cruelty case which means they came to Pasado's in bad condition. After we dealt with that, we caught and moved chickens around to different areas that would suit them best. It was an eventful day. Needless to say, I'm tired.
We quickly finished up at Reiner and headed back to the main farm so that I could assist Diane in cleaning the dog homes. I finished that, had a little chat with Diane because I have never met her before, and went back to helping Jennifer out on farm duties. She was catching chickens to rearrange where they're staying to decrease plucking and fighting. While we were trying to catch some chickens I found a dead one and was quite caught off guard. Jennifer and I bagged it up and put it in the refrigerator with the other bodies. It might sound a little morbid, but it's realty. Anyway, Jennifer explained to me about the white hens and how they die off often because they were breed to lay lots of eggs and then die off. They also came from a cruelty case which means they came to Pasado's in bad condition. After we dealt with that, we caught and moved chickens around to different areas that would suit them best. It was an eventful day. Needless to say, I'm tired.
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