My Essential Questions:

• How does treatment differ for different types of animals, wild and domestic, and how do you learn what types of treatment techniques are best?
• How can shadowing a professional veterinarian help me to better understand wildlife rehabilitation and release?
• How can learning the best methods to use when caring for injured/sick wildlife, help me to better care for animals on my farm (chickens, geese, sheep, and wild animals), especially since vets aren’t trained to support long-term health?

What have you discovered about your process, your habits?

I’ve discovered that I like to plan a lot of things ahead of time and that sometimes makes things harder because planning all the possible ways something can turn out isn’t very productive. I’ve been doing this throughout my senior project, and now that I’ve realized the extent to which I’ve planned instead of took action, I’m going to try and change that process. I think it would be more beneficial for my learning and experiences to be more flexible with my time for the remaining two weeks of senior project. This will help me build new habits, and likely expand my knowledge in the areas of study that I’m interested in.

Now, what do you know you don’t know? Circle back to your essential question. 

I know that the last essential question that I have listed may not be able to be answered in the two remaining weeks left of senior project. It requires an injury to take place on the farm which hasn’t happened yet, but I do believe I’m starting to learn how I would treat an injury in a farm animal if one presented itself in the future. I also still don’t know the real toll it takes to be in this profession since I’ve only gotten a glimpse of it these last few weeks, but I can continue to learn more through documentaries, articles written by rehabbers/vets, etc.