In the past couple of weeks we have rescued another 175 battery hens, this includes 100 from Wales, in collaboration with the British Hen Welfare Trust. Battery hens, just like free range hens, are sent for slaughter at around 18 months old, they are replaced with younger hens to keep farms’ egg production rates high. The 175…
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,…
We don’t go out to rescue trapped animals, with working full time whilst running the sanctuary, we struggle to cope with that let alone going out rescuing even more creatures. Today though we could not say no when a couple turned up telling us about a hedgehog, that had been trapped for at least two…
This beautiful tawny owl chick came to us three weeks ago. She was found at the base of a tree and was on the brink of death. She could not even stand, she was very weak and dehydrated. We started by warming her up in an incubator, then after a few hours and warm, we had to…
Today we held a sponsored walk, raising funds for our animal hospital. The event passed of extremely well with much fun to be had by all, a great walk and an opportunity to talk to people whilst helping a great cause. After the two hour walk around the local villages, we returned to the sanctuary for drinks and loads of scrummy vegan cakes! We have…
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…
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.
Today we had the Capital One top team volunteering at the rescue centre. This is the second volunteering day that that Capital One have spent here, they all grafted hard and got a lot of jobs complete that we just haven’t got the time to finish ourselves. Thanks to these guys, we got an aviary…
Springtime brings all manner of baby animals to our door to be hand reared and hedgehogs are no exception. This little one is one of three being hand reared on milk formula at the moment, in a couple of weeks or so well start to wean off milk onto meat. This time of year is really hard…
