On 20 August we had three very young squirrels delivered to us, these were found by a member of the public that had disturbed them whilst cleaning a chimney. Unfortunately the mother left her three babies and was too frightened to return.
We are now hand rearing all three, this is very time consuming, feeding them every 3 hours and then mimicking all the natural motherly actions, like teaching them to go to the toilet after feeding.
Update on Greta from her operation on Friday. She’s taken it all in her stride and not bothered one bit! Her fosterer has tried to take her out of the litter so that the stitches wouldn’t get ripped out during their rough play but little Greta wanted to be with her siblings so much that…
Updated 6 Nov 2010: We completed the sponsored bike ride in the planned time of 17 days. Fortunately we didn’t have any punctures or any other mechanical problems along the way. Ian’s navigating was surprisingly ok and he only got us lost a couple of times. The weather was pretty good with only a couple…
Today two of our lovely pygmy goats Brian and Barry went to a wonderful new home, where they will have to get use to sharing a new girlfriend. These two boys (brown goats) were unwanted pets, they have been with us since October last year. Sadly we still have four more and we receive calls…
Meet Walter and Eddie, the latest handsome boys to join the sheep herd. They are Jacob sheep from a school farm project. It’s forecast to rain all week so they’ll have to wait a bit longer for us to get their enormous winter woolly coats off.
Meet Dexter the old boy. Dexter is an amazing 14 years old, despite this he is doing well for his age, he had lived with another goat but unfortunately he’s been on his own for the past year. His elderly owner was struggling to look after him so he has come to us to be…
