Gift of Food for wildlife $20
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November 24 saw little Erica Echidna puggle join us, her milk needs lots of things special milk powder, oils and egg yokes we expect to have her for 100 to 150 days
Times have changed here post the 2019-20 mega bushfires. We stayed and defended and were some 8 km into the bushfire zone. The Fires were so huge we are simply not getting small joeys into care. This we believe is happening elsewhere. We do believe that joeys are rescued from pouches of road kill mums are being cared for by members of the public without a licence. There are larger wombats and adults coming into care and a huge increase in mange cases which all keeps us busy as we continue to adapt to wildlife needs.
Your donation helps us feed all wildlife we receive into care, or deal with events like drought, bushfires floods when there is no feed.
Your donation helps us feed little Keith and Patty, as well as all our little wombats, who just love their bottles and a cuddle.
The little orphans will each drink over 60 litres of milk (thats 16kg of powder) by the time they are around 11 kg and weaned, which is about 12 months. Feedings for little joeys start at 6 times a day, every 4 hours, 24 hours a day.
We have enough Milk frozen at the moment for any incoming small wildlife.
We always freeze milk powder to feed little orphans when they arrive. The supply of marsupial milk powder is variable, so we purchase it in 5 kg Tubs, It is dearer than baby milk! Wild wombats drink from their mums until they are around 11 kg. We allow our wombats to wean themselves at anything from 9 kg to 13 kg. They are considered adults at 22 kg.
Their long journey to become resilient wild wombats will take 2 years here at Rocklily, until they are about 22 kg. We then start a supported soft release program that lasts 6 to 9 months, allowing them to come and go, easing themselves into a safe wild place to be a wild wombat. We hope to see them around for the next 15 or so years after release.
Photo's are Keith , Patty then 'pinki' wombat at 260gms is Honey and Checky wanting more of course is starman.
Thank you again for helping little Starman and all our little orphans.
Were just a couple of ordinary folk who are trying to do the right thing. We are NOT a charity. We fund all our wildlife and post bushfire restoration work from our online shop and get no government or other funding. We do belong to a wildlife rescue for our liscence the group 'Wildlife Rescue South Coast' NSW The wildlife thankyou!