This week we have rescue 130 commercial barn hens going for slaughter. they are approximately 18 months old and came from a farm in Staffordshire. We now need homes for them to make space for another rescue.
If you can offer any a permanent home to be kept as pets, please email us with details of how many hens you can offer a home and pictures of your set up, we need to be happy that its fox proof and large enough.
Today Bertie was moved to his new, life-long home where he has an acre of land, a girlfriend and a stable to sleep in, a far cry fom the bungelow he came from, living on his own. Bertie met his girlfriend for the first time, he and Poppy, did a bit of speed dating.
At this time of year when the grass has stopped growing and our animals need to eat more and have warm bedding, our bills increase yet our income reduces. Have you considered buying our animals a present for Christmas and help with our running costs? To make a donation to buy feed, please Click Here….
Four of these ducks went to an amazing new home over the weekend, they now live with other ducks who photobombed this shot!! They also now live with some chickens! Three of the ducks were given up as pets a few months ago, we’ll miss the cheeky characters, they follow the volunteers around the sanctuary…
We’ve managed to rehome 7 rabbits at the weekend with another 4 reserved. We’ve had to also turn a lot away as we are always up to full capacity. Over 95% of the rabbits that come into the rescue are never vaccinated and never neutered. This puts huge financial pressures on the rescue to keep…
In recent weeks we had been releasing hedgehogs but then due to unseasonably hot weather with no rainfall we stopped again! One of our hibernating hedgehogs also only woke up last week and even then needed a little encouragement to venture out of a very large, warm nest! Thank goodness we now have some rainfall…
When we cleared out one of our stables to make way for 150 ex-battery hens, we moved some bales of straw and disturbed a family of wild mice. Unfortunately the mother ran off and we could not find her. We had no choice, her babies were too young to defend for themselves so we hand…
