Summer has meant an influx of animals needing care and loving homes! We now have nearly 40 roosters and are at capacity. Several new goats have arrived. Wild animals and birds have also needed care - the most recent being a hedgehog which we found in the middle of the road walking the centre line... She was fly-blown and shaking, poor baby. After 24 hours of care she seems to be well on the way to recovery!
We finally now have a black-faced sheep, Ethel, who is settling well into the sanctuary along with her friend Hector, a white ram!
Ethel the black-faced sheep
Two lovely broiler chickens have arrived at the sanctuary, along with five other chooks! They are settling in well, pecking happily among the straw and crowing in the morning ... The broilers are enormous placid feathery white boys, and will need special diets as broiler chickens are specially bred to grow at a tremendous rate, reaching slaughter weight in five to six weeks. Often they suffer from genetic heart, leg, and skeletal problems. However we have expert advice from others who rescue broiler chickens so look forward to giving them all possible care.
One of the broilers inside the chookhouse
Our two new roosters from up north, Petal and Handsome, are settling into the sanctuary well, they are both cuties! To begin with we put them in one side of the chookhouse and Spook (Julius) in the other until they got used to each other a bit. With wake up calls as early as 4.30am, it was a relief to be able to move them to permanent quarters further away in the orchard! We've dog-proofed the fence and trimmed a couple of trees a little so there are rooster-sized spaces to roost and they seem to have settled in fine, after sorting out their pecking order.
We've been continuing tree planting with the help of our first wwoofer. Our organic garden is flourishing and we've started tree lucerne and vege seedlings in punnets and done some gardening. It's awesome as to have longer days and great weather at last!!!!!!!!
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