BYC Café

[RoyalChick]

Thank you! Yes, i plan to glaze it in various blues.

I do hope you will share a pic of the finished piece - sounds wonderful.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I do hope you will share a pic of the finished piece - sounds wonderful.

I will try to remember to do that. Thank you!

 

[DobieLover]

I will try to remember to do that. Thank you!

Cap, How long did it take you to do that dragon? The details are amazing on it!

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

She's in her glory!

 

[Offshoreorca]

Good morning Cafe! Thanks for the coffee DL!

It was a busy weekend full of necropsies at the local agricultural college under the watchful eye of our wildlife pathologist (who unfortunately lives in the next province - hence the reason for this training to make life easier for her when people know how to document and collect samples properly). Some of the photos below are a bit gory, so they're hidden by a spoiler for those who would like to look at them.

Spoiler: Necropsy Workshop Pictures

The weather is cold with a light cloud cover here. We got a dusting of new snow overnight!

 

[DobieLover]

necropsies

Is that a baby dolphin that was taken out of the seal's stomach or do I have that all wrong?

 

[Sally PB]

are y'all getting iced up there?

Yeah, getting freezing rain right now. Parts of our driveway are ice already, so it's a good day to stay home, for sure.

 

[Offshoreorca]

Is that a baby dolphin that was taken out of the seal's stomach or do I have that all wrong?

No, sorry - context! That's a midterm common dolphin fetus (we moved it over to the table with the seal to get better photos). The mother was in good condition, with possible haemorrhaging around her lower jaw which is usually indicative of trauma, but we have to wait for the histo samples to be run on a microscopic level before we can get confirmation of that.

 

[DobieLover]

No, sorry - context! That's a midterm common dolphin fetus (we moved it over to the table with the seal to get better photos). The mother was in good condition, with possible haemorrhaging around her lower jaw which is usually indicative of trauma, but we have to wait for the histo samples to be run on a microscopic level before we can get confirmation of that.

That makes more sense. Poor dolphins.

 

[Offshoreorca]

That makes more sense. Poor dolphins.

Yes, it's always incredibly sad when the animal being necropsied is pregnant... we had a mix of natural and human-caused deaths in the 12 individuals we did (5 seals - grey, harbour, and harp, 6 harbour porpoises, and 1 common dolphin).