A few weeks ago our friends at Brook Farm Animal Sanctuary took in 30 sheep from a gentleman who could no longer care for them. We are helping by taking on 6 ewes, and they have made good friends with our resident ram, Jakey.
The ewes are now all wormed, hooves trimmed and wool sheared, so they are looking for a permanent, life-long home.
The cold Spring really seems to have affected wildlife. Normally we are in-undated with orphaned birds and mammals from May onwards, this year though Spring has come very late. We are now, almost into July, receiving the glut of baby birds, hedgehogs and foxes. this little guy is a Dunnock, happily receiving his meal. If…
This hedgehog came to us as a baby with fly strike in his eye. We removed the fly eggs and put him on a course of antibiotics to prevent infection to the eye. After sucessfully hand rearing him and getting him onto solid food it became apparent that he had lost the sight in his left eye and the…
This is the first issue of the “Brinsley Blag”, Brinsley Animal Rescue’s quarterly newsletter. In this Summer addition we follow the topics of: * Centre News – Recent developments, fundraisers and donations that involve the centre. * Rehoming News – All the animals that have recently found their new homes * Farm – Meet the…
This weekend we rehomed our little Billy who first came to us in 2011, when he arrived with Smartie. Back then they were both very nervous boys, a result of neglect and mistreatment from a former home. Billy, a miniature Shetland pony is now full of confidence and full of character. He loves the girls…
Early yesterday morning before the rest of the world was up we did a quick duck release. This handsome boy has been with us a few weeks and really couldn’t wait to see the back of us. We can never tell a wild animal why we are putting needles in them, tube feeding them, giving…
A massive, massive thankyou to everyone who donated towards our cattle crush appeal!! We managed to raise the amount we needed to buy hurdles, a race arch, inspection gate and a yoke. Many thanks to Buntings http://buntingsagriculturalsupplies.com too who were very kind in giving the charity a massive discount. When we actually measured our boy…
