Well it chucked it down almost all day, we all got very wet but thanks a million to all of our dedicated supporters who braved the poor weather and came to our open day.
We didn’t do as well as previous years, but we never expected to with the weather being so poor, but we never expected to see well over 300 people and to raise over £3,600.
Thanks again to all of our supporters.
In the past couple of weeks we have rescued another 175 battery hens, this includes 100 from Wales, in collaboration with the British Hen Welfare Trust. Battery hens, just like free range hens, are sent for slaughter at around 18 months old, they are replaced with younger hens to keep farms’ egg production rates high. The 175…
We have taken in another 4 pygmy goats. These were kept by a breeder, they were bred and the kids sold as pets. They have been given up, probably due to the recession.
Today we re-homed Geraldine to a great new home, one she really deserves. A few weeks ago we received a call about a loose goat, which had been seen in a hedge bottom alongside a road for a couple of weeks. The worried caller said that the poor goat wasn’t in great shape and was very thin. He had managed to trace the…
Click on image to enlarge A few weeks ago we were presented with an injured pheasant, she had been shot, the shot had penetrated one leg and injured the other. We persevered with her, the main difficulty was her broken leg. To our amazement this beautiful bird made a full recovery and today she was…
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…
Its sad to say goodbye to Woody as he leaves us for a new home, but really we are happy, he now has Acorn to keep him company. Too many people don’t do their research before buying pigs as pets and they go to breeders, over looking those in rescue centres, then we get inundated…
