This barn owl was admitted this week after being found lifeless, he was otherwise in good condition.
After a couple of days of fluid therapy, the change was quite dramatic, soon he was standing, then attacking us now he’s eating.
After another few days of observation, he’ll be moved from our hospital to a large aviary for the next stage of his rehabilitation journey back into the wild.
Today we have formally launched an easy was that you can donate small donations to Brinsley Animal Rescue and what better time now that we are seeking donations to build a Animal Hospital. If you can donate even a small amount via JustTextGiving, it will be put towards our animal hospital where we will treat sick, injured and orphaned animals.
This little chick was found on the forest floor with no sign of the parents. The chick came to us in reasonable health, although he/she would not have survived long on the ground with no parents. After a hours or so in an incubator to get him warm, we could feed him. Owl’s have to…
We have carried out a rescue in the past few days and have 150 hens to rehome. These hens are rescued barn hens approximately 18 months old, we have rescued 150 out of 20,000 going for slaughter from a farm in Surrey, they had reached the end of their “commercial life”. Sadly we could not rescue…
On Sunday we held our annual summer open day and what a great success it was. We saw over 1,000 visitors come through the gates of the sanctuary, normally closed to the public. On the day we raised £4,000 vital funds needed to keep our voluntary charity running. Although the doors officially opened at 11am, there was a steady queue forming by 10:30 and people were…
Another swan rescue today. We get understandably frustrated by the number of calls we receive for waterfowl caught up in carelessly discarded fishing hooks and line, in most cases we cannot help as we simply don’t have the resources to help or the birds are inaccessible on or close to water. Today we managed to…
Looking For The Ideal Christmas Gift? Why not “pop” along to our ebay shop, The Lovely Tails? Not only will you be purchasing a wonderful christmas gift, but you’ll be supporting a good cause too! Profits go directly to helping the animals at the sanctuary. Whether that will be contrubuting to essential vet fees…
