It’s very rewarding finally releasing ducks back into the wild where they belong. So far we have released 18 ducks that have come to us as ducklings and have had to be reared and cared for, ducks are very messy and need to be cleaned out twice daily, so we are happy to see these…
‘Gentle George’ has had a few homes in his time but we hope that this time it is his forever home with his new lady friend. He headed off into the sunshine a couple of weeks ago and is doing really well with someone that is more his own size! We still have quite a…
Why not consider adding a duck or two to your flock? With the idea of backyard chickens flying off, many people forget how fantastic ducks can be too. With stronger immune systems, ducks are a lot hardier then chickens and make fantastic pets to those new on the scene. Ducks are easy to contain as…
Meet Maisy the new addition to our cow herd who arrived this morning. Maisy is 8 and a very lucky girl, very, very few beef cows ever reach 2 let alone almost 9. Maisy met two of our boys Herbie and Billy today shortly after she arrived, we think they are all in love! Maisy,…
So Prince Harry does 100 mile round trip to get his girlfriend to a wedding but we have done 400 miles and 8 hours of driving over the weekend to get Barney to his forever home. I think our trip was far more important and far more newsworthy and worth every mile of travel. Barney…
Curly and Tufty who we saved some years ago have finally found a wonderful new home with another goat called Henry. Although Henry is very small and the boys very large, they got on fine and soon settled in. In fact Henry can walk underneath the boys without touching the sides! The boys were original…
Today, after we finished all of the normal daily morning chores, we headed off the Newark where Venus a female rabbit found a lovely life long home with a boy bunny. Then we headed off to Yorkshire to collect Barney, a 7 year old pygmy goat. Barney had been living all on his own since…
The boys were just chilling this morning in the lovely spring sunshine. Herbie couldn’t even be bothered to get up to eat his breakfast. Is this cows breakfast in bed?
This racing pigeon came to us with a very swollen leg, where it was being strangled by a leg ring. The ring would have been fitted by the owner, it is used to identify the pigeon. The poor boy was in a lot of pain, his foot and leg was very badly swollen and hot….
