Another day and another bird of prey, we now have 7 Tawny owls with us. This chap got himself caught in netting at a school, thankfully workmen on site built a scaffold to get access to him so he could be freed and brought to us. We carefully removed the remains of the net that was entangled around his talons. He’ll remain with us under supervision before being moved into an aviary to prepare for release.
We have now released our two swifts that can to us as chicks a few weeks ago. We have hand reared them, until the point where they were ready for release. If grounded, swifts cannot take off, so its important to get it right and watch over them. We let them take off in a…
A few years ago Marlpool Brewery launched Blind Boris, a dark mild real ale named after our very own Boris Bull. This weekend Marlpool brewery launched Maisy Moo, a golden real ale, named after Boris’s girlfriend, the beautiful Maisy Moo. We popped along for a pint (for research purposes of course), however it had been so…
When we first saw a breeder sell so called micro-pigs on the news, we just knew what would be coming our way. There is no such thing as a micr0-pig. Pigs are generally quite large and very, very powerful animals, a micro pig is a smaller version, but certainly not small or micro as many breeders claim.
This weekend we took Colin to his new, life-long home. We originally took in Colin in August this year, he was reported to have been a stray. He wasn’t castrated, so we needed to sort that out, to get him ready for rehoming. Male pigs need to be castrated, this makes them less boisterous but…
She’s so sweet, how could we not take on this little girl! This little duckling was brought in by a cat, fortunately the owner retrieved her from the jaws and took the duckling to a vets before later bring her to us. Cats mouths are very infectious so it’s lucky that this duckling got away with minor…
Last week week we released a hare back into the wild which we had hand reared, by the time we returned home, there was a message about two more orphaned leverets, the mum was found dead. We are now hand rearing these two cheeky monkeys. Unlike rabbits, leverets are born with fur and live in…
