I’ve been off for a few days and what a surprise to come n and find new turkey chicks, six in total, and a new fawn. So little. I guess they got the report of this little guy last Sunday, but just caught him last night. No one knows what to do with him so he’s sharing the cage with the howler monkey, Lenny, whom I showed in an earlier post.
Really, I’ve never done such physical labor in my life. I’m too old, but I can’t help it, keep going back. To some of you, it’s probably sounds weird. It’s back breaking work in the heat, but the animals have to be taken care of. Now, with an additional seven animals, it’s daunting work. It takes over 4 hours to prepare the food, in a tiny kitchen with cement floors standing over the sink cutting veges and fruit. Then the chore of feeding them. Yeah, the little white-faced monkeys are easy as they are young and crave human interaction, but the spider monkeys are beasts, and kind of mean. They will be happy then turn on you in a flash. I go in with a stick and someone else teases them with bananas on the other side of the cage to distract them. 
Out of the snow and into the heat 