This young sparrowhawk was found out in the open, on his own and so he was brought to us. We are quite alien to him and so initially he would not take food from us, as he would his parents. So for the first few days we have to force feed. Thankfully now he is feeding himself.We always minimise human contact to ensure wild animals remain wild, also human contact creates stress for them. We clean out and feed once a day, when he’s strong enough, he’ll be transferred into an aviary
We’ve managed to rehome 7 rabbits at the weekend with another 4 reserved. We’ve had to also turn a lot away as we are always up to full capacity. Over 95% of the rabbits that come into the rescue are never vaccinated and never neutered. This puts huge financial pressures on the rescue to keep…
Another busy weekend but at least the sun finally came out and we all felt better for it (volunteers and animals alike). We had fundraising events going on, hand rearing, mucking out, appointments for animals, movement of pig arks (with tractor getting stuck), builders working over the weekend to try and get projects finished for…
We have rescued 80 ex-battery chickens this week, taking our total for the year to over 400. These poor girls live an awful life, in extremely cramped cages, each hen has no more space than an A4 piece of paper. The flock is usually sent for slaughter at 12 to 18 months and replaced with new…
This very young fallow deer fawn was brought to us after being found trapped in a wire fence and had been separated from her mum. Thankfully she arrived in reasonable shape, the wound isn’t too deep, it’s clean and not infected, so it’s been cleaned and treated with a topical antibiotic. Deer often hide their…
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 barn owl was admitted this week after being found lifeless, he was otherwise in good condition. After a couple of days of fluid therapy, the change was quite dramatic, soon he was standing, then attacking us now he’s eating. After another few days of observation, he’ll be moved from our hospital to a large…
