During the second part of this week, we had a new set of five chicks born. There was a humidity issue which meant it was much harder for the chicks[…]
Author: Ruby
My name is Ruby and I'm interested in Water pollution. I'm interested in water pollution because not a lot of people care about the giant problem we are facing and I want to stop that. We're not taking our actions into consideration and we should be trying harder to conserve our earth. There are lots of little things we can do to help our ecosystem and our environment and if that means saving hundreds of thousands of marine animals than I don't understand why we wouldn't of s=done these things earlier.
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation Post: Week 5 # 1
During the first part of this week, I was able to document a lot of new animals, as well as the recovery of a few animals that have been at[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Critical Reflection #6
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[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation: Week 4 – #2
During the second part of the week, we were able to give two classes of 3-5 year-olds from the school next door to us a tour of the chickens, sheep,[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Critical Reflection #5
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[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation Post – Week 4 #1
For the first part of this week I took these photos of some of the birds (including one that just arrived at the Ravensbeard rehabilitation center). The first photo is[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Critical Reflection #4
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[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation: 2 – Week #3
During the second part of this week we had lots of lambs born on the farm. Out of the three mothers that gave birth this week, one had a lot[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation: 1 – Week #3
I was able to capture a lot of great photos and videos this week of the birds in the Ravensbeard Rehabilitation center and these are some of them: Link[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation 2 – Week 2
During the second part of this week, we had another pregnant sheep give birth to twins and these are the pictures I documented of the lambs: We also had[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation 1 – Week 2
The first half of this week I spent all of my time checking on the lambs, (if they’re eating, drinking, acting normal, etc.) The photo below is of the first[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Critical Reflection #3
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[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation 2 – Week #1
This week, we had 5 lambs born on the farm so helping the sheep give birth as well as caring for/ making sure the newborn lambs were healthy took lots[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Documentation 1: Week #1
Documentation plan: In order to document my experience at my internship, I’ve been taking photos and videos of the birds that I encounter. I also want to capture the stories[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Critical Reflection #2
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[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Critical Reflection #1
What do you know? I bring with me lots of experience in caring for farm animals (including domesticated birds like chickens, ducks and geese). I also have experience being around[…]
Ruby Hutchins – iSearch
List of Resources for my senior project: SPCA Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DCSPCA Ravensbeard website: https://ravensbeard.org/ Ravensbeard Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RavensbeardWildlifeCenter/ American Veterinary Medical Association website: https://www.avma.org/journals (I will also likely subscribe to a veterinary[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Final Project Post
Wildlife Rehabilitation Internship 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[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Learning Goals & General Work Plan and Documentation Plan
Senior Project Goals: Learn how a veterinary hospital/rehabilitation center is run, takes in animals, releases animals, etc. Shadow professional vets and learn from them the most efficient and effective ways[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Action Items
Action Item Area: Connections Reason for Item: To be able to intern/volunteer I have to connect with leaders of the organization and fill out an application Notes: They have already[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Proposal Pitch
Your project name: Wildlife Rehabilitation Internship The challenges that my project will address: This project will help me better care for and learn how to help injured animals, which[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Working Draft Blog Post 3
I do believe that my ideas for tackling the essential questions are feasible. I contacted the organizations that I want to intern at including a bird sanctuary in NYC which[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Working Draft Blog Post 2
I’m interested in working with and around animals, since I have come to the realization that I really enjoy caring for injured/sick animals during quarantine, and I would like to[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Working Draft Blog Post 1
The essential questions that I’ve come up with so far are: How do you care for an injured animal so that you can give it the best possible chance when[…]
Ruby – 5 Minute Purpose Pitch
My Reason/story: Since the start of COVID I have been upstate on our family farm and I have been learning so much now that I’m able to live here full[…]
Ruby Hutchins – My Purpose Statement
I think what I got for my strengths and impacts are very accurate. I can understand why my strengths are what they are because I feel like I do draw[…]
Ruby Hutchins – Prototypes and Initial Thoughts
I have lots of ideas about what I want my senior project to be. I had previously thought that I would for sure be doing an internship for my senior[…]