Day 16

0915: No material again today - beginning to think that maybe all the sows died suddenly last week and they never told us, or something disastrous like that!

0930: Off to library to await bacteriology.

1230: Innoculated bacterial cultures resembling Salmonella into urea broth today - free now until 4pm when I have to go back and check them.

1800: Had an interesting afternoon in the PM room - the SSPCA brought a badger in that they'd found badly injured by the side of the road. They put in down and brought it to the vet school for the Pathology department to examine.

What sometimes happens with badgers that are baited is that the baiters dump the injured and dead animals at the side of the road, to make it look like they've been hit by cars, disguising their activities. This was a concern with this badger, hence it's arrival in the PM room.

It's injuries were quite extensive - one of it's front paws was almost completely severed and the skull was crushed - how it was still alive when they found it is beyond me. However, we decided these wounds were most likely caused by a car and not by dogs, so there was no case this time.

I went up to Bacteriology this afternoon, but I'm going to leave the cultures in the incubator overnight as they were inconclusive this afternoon.