Finally its dry enough to shear the sheep.We rounded them up into a stable and once settled, they were checked over, sheared one by one and given their favorite treat, cashew nuts. Before being returned to the fields they’ll be vaccinated, wormed and hooves trimmed.Now they are ready for this lovely sunshine!
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…
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…
This weekend we said goodbye to two lovely goats Arabella and Harold, they went to a new home living with other goats as pets. Arabella was an unwanted pet, Harold had been dumped in a farmers field. You may remember from an earlier post, Harold came to us in poor condition, now he’s recovered and…
Running the sanctuary requires many different skill sets. These skills aren’t just limited to caring for the many types of animals we rescue, we need to administer the charity, fund raise and there’s also lots and lots of maintenance and repair activities to keep on top of, not least land management. This place certainly keeps…
This unfortunate swan managed to get a large fishing hook caught in his foot. This has now been removed by a vet and he’s with us whilst resting and completes a course of antibiotics. All looks positive for a release back with his partner in a few days time.
Meet Walter and Eddie, the latest handsome boys to join the sheep herd. They are Jacob sheep from a school farm project. It’s forecast to rain all week so they’ll have to wait a bit longer for us to get their enormous winter woolly coats off.
