Posts filed in: Exhibits
Alpaca Pool
Recently, we added a pool to our alpacas yard. We had a good feeling that they would use it because we kept finding a lot of dirt in their water buckets and evidence of water being splashed around. It took a while to be able to capture it on film, but we finally did. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpyxNSOpXBs[/youtube] Read more
Raptor Center Road Trip & a Quiz!
Kimberly and I recently took a road trip out to the Carolina Raptor Center in Huntersville, NC to pick up our two new owls. The trip out was uneventful (unlike the ride home) and we got to walk around the facility before crating up our birds for the van ride home. Here are photos of few of the residents at the Raptor Center. How many raptors can you ID?Read more
Let’s all get weighed!
Keepers are enjoying the new scale in the farmyard, and so are the critters. Here’s some video of Max and the alpacas getting weighed. Max’s training focused on keeping him calm as he walked from his enclosure to the scale – he tends to get excited when he goes for a walk. And 1600 pounds of excited steer can be difficult to manage. But look how calm he is! [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSfSwNZ1ifY[/youtube] The alpaca training is more focused on helping them tolerateRead more
Our newest additions: Kerby and Styx
Two road closures, one tree down, and a two-car smash-up that closed most lanes on I-85. All while inhaling the delightful smell of animal poop, wafting from the rear of the van. It was worth it. Meet Kerby and Styx, our newest acquisitions to the museum family of animals. Both came to us (after 6+ hours of road tripping) from the Carolina Raptor Center (CRC) just outside Charlotte. CRC is very successful in returning injured raptors to the wild afterRead more
Ultrasound for a Snake
Last Thursday Katy and I took Todd, our black rat snake in for an ultrasound of his heart. Since Dr. Godshalk, a board certified veterinary radiologist, doesn’t have a lot of snakes for clients, we had to bring a “normal” snake so she could compare the heart of one to the other. We took the snakes to VSH in Cary- this is where, 3 years ago, Dr. Godshalk helped us out with Cassandra’s brush with death. All went well. Read more