Today Patsy and Angel, two of our female goats went to a new home to live with a male.
Angel was originally a stray, Patsy an unwanted pet, they have been together now for three years.
We’ll miss this lovely pair, however we are very grateful for a forever home.
They came to us as the previous owner claimed that they had attacked their chickens. However they get on fine with ours and even roost with them at night. After several months with us, we finally found a great home for our two rescue geese. We’ll miss these two characters, but we are happy that they…
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.
Many people are completely new to chicken keeping or want to know more about looking after the ex-bats we rescue. We have teamed up with a great new company called Hens for Pets who will be running a course in Kimberley on Sunday 28th Nov. The course will run for approximately half a day and…
The term ‘breeding like rabbits’ has a lot of truth! Sadly by the time many people have realised this it is far too late. A female rabbit has the ability to become pregnant again straight after she has given birth. The gestation of a rabbit is only approximately 30 days so perhaps you can see…
Unfortunately, at this time of year rabbits and pets get such a raw deal. Many people simply want to get rid of their childrens animals just before Christmas to make way for the new toys.
This week we have taken in a wild rabbit with myxomatosis. On the night she came in we gave her antibiotics, quarantined her in a warm room with lots of Olbas oils, flushed her eyes, syringe fed her on some warm food and got rid of the fleas that she was infested with. We weren’t…
