We don’t manage to find homes for geese too often, this year we haven’t done too bad with our third pair finding really great homes.
This pair are now living on an arable farm along with chickens and ducks.
Not everyone likes geese, they do make really good guard dogs, raising the alarm to any stragglers and they can be quite intimidating. We love them, but some of our volunteers I’m sure will be a little relieved, but it won’t be long before we are asked to rescue some more.
Springtime is a very busy time for us as we receive lots of orphaned baby animals, that need to be hand reared and cared for. In particular we rear a lot of baby birds, yesterday we received our very first of the season, a young collared dove.
Although this looks a little brutal, the process of cutting the cows hooves doesn’t hurt them at all, it’s just like having your nails cut, but their nails are large and need a cutting disc on the end of an expert! The cows don’t know that we are there to help them, so they can…
We have so many baby and adult hogs coming in at present that we are now relying heavily on hedgehog and wildlife fosterers. If you want to know more or are serious about caring for hedgehogs then we would advise people to book onto this course. Lots of people tell us that they want to…
Spring Fund Raising Day – Sunday 26th May! £1 entry – We will have all our usual charity stalls and other local animal charities as well as Veggies burgers and lots of lovely cakes as well as some beautiful new merchandise. So come and see us and our current residents, we really hope to see…
Meet Bobby boy. Bobby on the right arrived this week, we needed a partner for Trudy Trotters, an abandoned pig we rescued a few weeks ago. Here you can see them meeting for the first time. Bobby is around a year old, like Trudy he is very friendly and loves attention, especially belly rubs which…
This weekend has been quite busy, we rehomed two Pygmy Goats, unfortunately though two sheep came in. This poor girl is Mary, her owners made contact the day they were moving house, desperately needing a home for poor Mary. Although we were reluctant to take on any more sheep, as we now have 2 rams and 6 ewes, how…
