Read Professor Rick Speare's foreword to the new manual
Marsupial Training Course
Duration
Four days
How to make a booking
DAY ONE AND TWO
Rescue and Handling Techniques
To save or not to Save
Immediate treatment of injuries
Shock
Hypothermia and Hyperthermia
Superficial wounds
Implications of raising marsupials
Warmth-the most important factor
Determining temperature
Hydration—The vicious cycle of oral rehydrators—
How to rehydrate a joey
Determining growth stage
Nutritional requirements
Thymus glands
Nutritional Deficiencies
Preparing milk formula
Using milk formula
Equipment required
Marsupial Growth charts
Rearing Unfurred marsupials
Feeding Technique
Including Fluid in Diet
Prevention of drying skin
The Importance of sucking
The Importance of Stimulation
The Substitute Pouch
Rearing the Furring Joey
Problems Associated with Feeding-Hurling-Hypoglycaemia-Colic-Combating Thrush
Handrearing Bettongs, Bandicoots, and Echidnas.
Hygiene
Toilet Training
Weaning
The Substitute Pouch
Introducing Solids
Raising Marsupials Together
Sunshine and Exercise
Enclosures
Tell-Tale Signs of Inadequate Care
Digestion
Diets in Captivity
Half Way Housing
The Weaning Process
Release
Relocating Marsupials
DAY THREE AND FOUR
Equipment carers should have on hand
STRESS-Predisposing factor to Disease
Allergic reactions & poisons
Anaemia
Blockages
Cataracts 1.
Cataracts 2.
Coccidiosis
Colic
Concussion/Oedema
Constipation
Convulsions
Crystaluria
Debilitated adults
E. Coli (bowel/intestine)
Enterotoxaemia
External parasites
Internal parasites-strongyloides
Myopathies
Nutritional problems
Otitis
Pneumonia
Photosensitivity
Scouring
Ascertaining Clinical signs of common diseases--white board exercise.
Wounds
Soft tissue injuries
Nerve damage
Tendons-overstretched
Tendons-contracted
Tendon problems
Wound dressings
Flushing wounds
Fractures
Tail fractures
Base of rump of tail
Heel/elbow break
PRACTICAL GROUP WORK HANDS ON PRACTISE OF DRESSING A WOUND