We don’t very often rehome ponies, so we were chuffed when we rehome Willow to a great home not too far away. All too often its people wanting to give up their ponies and horses, we rarely find good homes for ur rescued friends.
Willow came to us covered with scars where he had been abused by a former owner, it took us quite sometime to gain his trust. Despite his ordeal, he is a great pony and now has made a companion to Griff.
Willow meets his new companion for the first time.
This weekend we re-homed Jack and Buttons, two Shetland Ponies that were born in April this year and were taken in a few weeks ago. These two little boys are so small, they managed to duck under the fencing and escape from their new home in less than 5 minutes! It didn’t take long to…
It’s been another truly long day with a production line of 5 castrates to do now we are having cold weather. With many of the animals here we have to wait for the colder weather to carry out these necessary ops due to the risk of fly strike. It’s very sad that we usually get…
Unfortunately Betty’s life long pal Belinda died very suddenly at the vets in July. We presume that she had a heart attack. It was very sudden and came as a great shock. Both these goats were very overweight when they came to us and we are still battling with Bettys weight. Betty needs a friend…
Well its sheep sheering time again. We have seven sheep at the moment, we sheer them ourselves and take the opportunity to worm them, trim their hooves and give them a good check over. This is Jeff, he’s not the usual sheep, he actually doesn’t mind being sheered, he makes it look far easier than…
Today we have rescued a further 60 barn hens. At only 18 months old, they have reached the end of their commercial life and were destined for slaughter, to become pet food or cheap pies. If you can offer a life-long loving home to two or more hens, to be kept as pets, please see…
