Annual bird health check 13-15 September
Annual bird health check 13-15 September - Every year we catch up all of our birds to give them their annual booster (much as you would your pet).
We also take this opportunity to give the birds a full health check. We check that they have a good body weight (we don’t want them too thin or too large), that they aren’t showing any signs of illness or injury and that they are fit and well.
This also provides us with the perfect opportunity to make sure we have an accurate record of our birds so we also check the rings on their legs which identify them with their own individual number, making sure they are well fitted and secure.
It’s also a great training exercise – those members of our team with good bird handling skills can train those of us who are less familiar with this work.
We’ve over 400 birds to catch, check, then put back in their pens whilst causing them as little disruption as possible and it's a real team effort. You'll probably see us undertaking this mammoth task if you visit over the next 3 days.
