Pigs and Chickens

Sunday I helped out by raking out the pig pen (pot bellied pigs) and then putting new hay down.

Then I worked with another person to get the chickens back in the chicken coop. They have to go in there in the evening for their safety and warmth.

At the end I gave clean water to different animals. It was a sort of short day.

This picture is from CASanctuary Flickr page.

Goats at CAS...Follow the One With the Bucket!

I saw this video from a tweet showing feeding time at Catskill Animal Sanctuary. The goats are so cute and the horses look pretty excited too.

Painting Fences

Yesterday at CAS I painted horse fencing. It's what I did most of the day. There were a lot of volunteers out painting fence because there's a lot of fence at CAS. I realized that painting is a really slow process.

I took a break from painting and ate a burrito.

Another thing I did was sweep up the kitchen where we get the animal's food prepared and I rolled up a hose next to the kitchen.

When I got to CAS, the baby pig, Amelia, had some green stripes along her sides. It turns out that she rubbed herself along a freshly painted green building that was done the day before. She has paint on her ears too.

The sheep Rambo has bad arthritis. I didn't realize it until he was trying to get up from his hay pile. He got up half way and his front legs were still down but his hind legs were straight up. Then he finally pushed himself up and stiffly walked away. Two chickens were laying right next to him on the hay. It was really cute.

Water Troughs, Hay and Chickens

I worked at CAS on Saturday instead of Sunday. It was warm and there were more volunteers than usual, plus, because it is Spring now, the visiting hours have started. The first thing I did on Saturday was wash and clean out the horse's water trough. It was pretty sludgy. Then I filled it full of fresh water.

Then I loaded hay onto two trucks. Then we drove around on a Gator to try to find a pot bellied pig that we thought had gotten loose only to find out that the pig had been recently adopted.

I also helped get some loose chickens into their coop. That was fun but then there were two of them that I couldn't help with because they were a little vicious.

On Sunday, my class from Shir Chadash went to Ellis Island and the Museum of Jewish Heritage. It was really interesting and fun.