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| We usually don't have lambs during the autumn, but this year we did get a surprise... Good for the students, tomorrow we are going to the sheep farm to take a look at them. We have around 25 female sheep at the schools farm and they all need to get their coat cut, so that is also a thing on the to do -list for tomorrow. |
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| Students in our animal house. They are the ones cleaning the house and taking care of the animals. This is in the end of one of my practical lessons |
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| One of the students are doing the dishes. A lot of animal caring is cleaning after the animals and that's a thing that many of our students in the beginning haven't thought about. Sometimes it comes as a chock for them and they quit their studies, but most of them stay. |
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| One of my students have been feeding our guinea pigs and now she is handling him and checking his health. We have 8 guinea pigs at our school. Except for the guinea pigs we have around 50 species (but then we're also counting the fishes :)) |
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| This is a photo of our school from up above. Many of the buildings are houses for the students, most of them (around 150 people) are living at our school during the weeks. You can also study horses, agriculture, forest and then we have a lot of studies for "grown up people". We are around 50 people working in Axxell Brusaby. |
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| The dog and cat hall in our animal house. This is were I mostly work when I have practical lessons. We have around 25 Labrador retrievers and they are all becoming assistance dogs. The students are very involved in their training. Then we are also taking care of homeless cats, we have space for about 15 homeless cats/kittens. At the moment we have 5 kittens and 6 adults. The students are also taking care of them. |
Hello Andrea, very interesting to see your blog! Where is the school situated?
ReplyDeleteAnother question! What is your working or educational background?
ReplyDeleteHello Andrea! It´s nice to see pictures from Brusaby : ) The lambs was a fun surprise. Does that happen often?
ReplyDeleteyou have no ram ?
ReplyDeleteHello Andrea
ReplyDeleteIt looks like much of your teaching is done through students undertaking the work that they need to learn. Do you have classes as well?
One of the schools that I am connected with in Australia has something that they call "Doggy Day Care" two days a week. Staff and students from the larger campus can bring in their dog two times a week and the students look after them, take them for a walk, do health checks and so on. Then they are taken home at night and the school doesn't have to worry about them. It seems to work well for everyone. Do you have something like that, or do all of your animals live at the school?
Thank you for sharing your photos. I enjoyed seeing the sheep and the lambs. I grew up on a very large grazing property in Australia (136, 000 acres) and we had between 8, 000 and 12, 000 sheep (depending on the weather). The sheep just lived out in the open and we mustered them in for shearing, dipping, and crutching. A very different way of taking care of sheep than what happens in Scandinavia :-)
All the best
Susanne