Rehabilitating farm animals; Student explains 3D printing prosthetics

KIMBERLY EDGAR Entertainment Editor

Freshman Katherine Vanarsdale and her family started a 501c3 farm animal rescue about a year ago. They specialize in helping the “perfectly imperfect” animals, which are animals that have been neglected, abused, have disabilities, or have deformities.

Chickens and ducks are the most common animal that is surrendered to them for having disabilities or deformities. A certain hen in particular has gathered some attention due to the both her feet,” says Vanarsdale. “Due to the severity of it, she lost both her feet.”

Unsure of what to do, Vanarsdale’s mom researched ways to help Wrecking Ball and found out about 3D printing prosthetics for the hen. This was the more appealing option since the most common way was to kill them and “[we] didn’t want to do that due to our mission being giving every animal a fighting chance, no matter what disabilities they have,” says Vanarsdale.

It was Vanarsdale’s idea to recruit technology teacher Mr. An-