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Quoth the raven “Nevermore”

Once upon a midnight dreary…  I decided to write  about crows and ravens. Yea, I know…not as good as old Edgar but,nonetheless I am sure you will learn something in this post. One thing is my birthday falls on Halloween(presents can be left at the front desk),secondly we all know I love birds so I decided to talk about birds associated with Halloween. Crows and their relatives are in the family Corvidae. You can find them everywhere except for theRead more
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Missing Ozzie

On Wednesday, we made the decision to euthanize Ozzie, our Royal Palm turkey, who lived in the farmyard. He had been sick for a long time, and seemed to defy the odds on a daily basis. Up until this past week, he was his usual ornery self, even through what we strongly suspected was cancer. Late last week he started limping, and eventually went lame, and didn’t respond at all to the treatments for pain we were giving him. AsRead more

Keepers doing science

I walk into the vet room and find 6 keepers in the dark all staring at a blue bottle with the fluorescent light from our tortoise’s tank. Whipping out my camera to catch the action before I even know what’s going on, I realize that they are all attempting to determine whether the water sample before them is reading positive or negative. Every month we do water testing, and our wolf pool gets tested for e. coli.  The test isRead more

Yona Update

It’s been almost one month since Yona had her day at the vet school.  Just about all of the reports are in and the talking continues to determine what the best course of action will be. We will almost definitely be doing surgery in late September when the weather cools to remove the bone fragment from her arm (her medial coronoid process – a bone in her elbow- has fragmented). As always, we’ll keep you updated. Check out the videoRead more