By Joan Reid | Volunteer Macropod co-ordinator
Our handraised macropods ( wallabies and Kangaroos) are growing fast and need to go back to their natural habitat.
This process of hand raising and rehabilitation can be a very long one when carers receive a hairless joey to look after when its mum has died. Joeys in this case can be in care for up to 18 months before release.
Once released it is very hard to tell most wallabies apart so we microchip all our macropods before releasing them back to thier native habitat. We have let our local vets and the road kill committee know about our microchiped macropods so they can check to see if they our handraised ones and contact us with the details.
Luckily so far none of our microchiped macropods have been found dead, which is a great feeling making us think we are doing right with our release techniques.
At one of our company volunteer days we were lucky to have Bayer employees come and help, two were vets and they microchiped a few wallabies while at the facility.
These wallabies still had a while to go in rehabilitation but it was great to get them microchiped and ready to go while they were still happy enough to be handled.
These particular wallabies have now been released and we hope are living happily in the wild.
Thanks to your wonderful donations we are able to continue our good work and give all our different animals that go through the rehabilitation facillity the best chance of surviving once released.
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