Last night was spent rehydrating hoglets and picking fly eggs and maggots from them, Ugh.
Painstaking but worth it if they all survive. What I actually wanted to be doing was trying a new recipe for cookies, making a spicy quinoa salad and applying a Lush facemask. Sadly a 1am finish, a stale sandwich and none of the above wishlist!! At least all hogs are doing ok today and seem to be eating like little troopers.
We don’t manage to find homes for geese too often, this year we haven’t done too bad with our third pair finding really great homes. This pair are now living on an arable farm along with chickens and ducks. Not everyone likes geese, they do make really good guard dogs, raising the alarm to any…
We have been asked to take on 4 goats and 2 Jacob sheep. We need help to build another enclosure for these animals who are already living together. Woody the goat in the picture originally lived in a ‘petting farm’ but kept escaping.
It’s gone baby hedgehog crazy!!! Over the past week we have had endless calls about teenage size hedgehogs getting into difficulty. Most have come in dehydrated and on Friday night we had 3 in with maggots crawling all over them. Unfortunately we had to put 2 to sleep but with this little man we managed…
Update: 11 August 3 of the kittens have now been rehomed. The male tabby is currently with a foster family. Update: 13 July The kittens have become very friendly. We have one home for the bouncy black one, ‘Dobby-James’, he joins his new family soon. Anyone who thinks they could find the time to care…
Lush have been so supportive of our charity. Today we were allowed to have a fundraising event at their Derby store. We sold vegan cakes, charity merchandise and had a raffle of gifts donated by Lush. Also all of the money, less VAT, from the sales on the day of the Charity Pots, will be…
