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.
Managing a 22 acre animal sanctuary whilst holding down full-time jobs is hard, coping with the snow creates additional challenges for us all, we are though so grateful for our team of dedicated, animal loving volunteers, who turn out no matter what the weather to help ensure our residents have warm bedding, top up frozen…
This weekend we took on 150 rescued ex-battery chickens, so we are now looking for loving homes for these hens. Whether you can take 2 or 20, a novice or an expert in hen keeping we’d love to hear from you. We can offer advice on hen housing, feed, health issues and everything chicken related. Chicken keeping is becoming increasingly…
In the past few weeks we have re-homed 6 goats with Molly joining the five already homed this weekend. This will make way for some more boys that should be coming this week. Molly joined her five friends at a great home where she has acres of lush green grass, friend to play with and loads of climbing frames.
We are very proud to announce that we have now completed the coordination of a dairy calve rescue, the total now stands at 20 calves rescued in a week, each bull calves only a few days old.This rescue has been months in the planning, liaising with a dairy farmer and coordinating the life-long homes with…
When the weather is nice and people are out and about especially over weekends, that’s when we receive lots of calls, this weekend has been one of those and we have had to prioritise what we can help with. Along with another fox cub, several birds and more babies to rear, we took in this…
Meet Flossy, a giant female albino rabbit looking for a life-long home with a partner. Flossy is large, she weights around 10 kg and so needs to be homed to an adult, ideally someone with experience with rabbits. She is handle-able, but being so large she is also strong and therefore not suitable to be handled by children. Flossy needs to be homed with…
