Ready To Start Training YB Team 2010

Ug! Done with my least favorite part of this - yes, even counting cleaning the loft: vaccinating.  I boxed up the wild young birds and then discovered I had syringes, but not needles.  I had to run into CVS and buy needles.  They only had a 25 gauge needle - not the 20 gauge needle I needed so it was quite a chore getting the syringes filled - it took forever!

I had to stop and stitch up two birds that had what looked like hawk injuries.  I hope they heal okay.  The wounds were open but didn't seem to bother them.  I started at 11am and didn't finish until 5pm.  Of course, there was the trip into town and lunch in there, but otherwise - pretty busy.  I lost one bird, presumably to a hawk, while we were out of town (I had the loft manager free-lofting them to get them settled for training - got a late start this year due to flying out of two loft in OB season - never again!).  Vaccinated 42 on the YB team, plus 5 others.