Over the weekend we dropped off Magic one of our Dartmoor ponies to his beautiful new home. He is now living as a companion pony with a lovely mare called ‘Cariad’. She wasn’t too pleased to be sharing her field at first but we are sure they’ll both be friends soon. Lucky little Magic.
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…
A massive, massive thankyou to everyone who donated towards our cattle crush appeal!! We managed to raise the amount we needed to buy hurdles, a race arch, inspection gate and a yoke. Many thanks to Buntings http://buntingsagriculturalsupplies.com too who were very kind in giving the charity a massive discount. When we actually measured our boy…
Last weekend we took a call from a cat and dog rescue charity that had taken a call about some pigs kept in appalling conditions. We were asked to see if we could take mum and 6 piglets in. We did initially say no, as we are full. We already have 10 pigs and can only take on more,…
The past couple of weeks has been so hard for us all at Brinsley, we have lost two of our beautiful friends. Shaunie the sheep came from a farm when all of his siblings went of to be slaughtered. Shaunie though was special, he had a deformed rear leg, in fact only half a leg…
Meet Colin, a rescued stray pig. Unfortunately we get inundated with calls to take on unwanted pets, pigs are no exception to this, sadly we have to many away away every week, we can only take them more in when we have space, space created when people rehome rescued animals that we have. This chap…
We are often unable to respond to calls regarding injured wildlife as we don’t have enough volunteers to perform the rescue or have space to accommodate, we do however always try our very best. We took many calls about a Canadian Goose that was not in great shape and being badly bullied, we could not…
