Today we have rescued our first hens of 2011. Battery hens live a miserable existences and after a short life, the are sent for slaughter to maintain high egg production, in the name of cheap food.
We have rescued a tiny fraction of the 20,00 being killed at a farm in the South, but every one we take on is a life saved, a life that will now prosper.
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Today we were sad to say goodbye to our three male goats, yet very happy that they have gone to a great new home. Godfrey is over 10 whilst Curly Top and Tufty are only two. They have been with us for a few months, Godfrey over a year. In their new home they have several acres, loads of lovey grass,…
We had decided not to take on any more pigs, 12 pigs eat a lot of food. However when we heard about this poor girl and saw the condition that she was in, we had to do what we could to help get her out of the squalid, muddy conditions that she was kept in.
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,…
Although Wilbur is only middle aged, around 6, he is very arthritic and cannot be kept outdoors over winter any longer, we need to get him indoors. Wilbur came to us with his brother and sister as rescued piglets, being factory farmed pigs bred for their meat, they grow unnaturally large, this puts a lot…
On Monday we were on the road all day dropping off animals to new homes and then on the way back picking up a stray piglet. It rained relentlessly and we were nothing short of exhausted when we got home!! ‘Ronnie’ as we have called him was dumped in some woods near Retford and then…
That little pony bottom in a horse trailer is Aeros!! He has been reserved to go to an amazing new home so the fabulous Claire has been practicing loading him for the journey. He’s now such a pro (or so keen to go and meet his new friends) that he’s started loading himself. Loading horses…
