animal sanctuary

[som farmer]

advert in the daily mail, sos, for donations/hay. Hillside animal sanctuary.
they claim to be home for:
2500 horses, ponies and donkeys.
650 cows
300 pigs
600 sheep and goats
and lots of other animals, including dogs and deer.
That is a hell of a lot of stock, advert gives the impression, all kept on 1 site, I cannot believe that is true, if numbers are correct, surely would be over several sites. The numbers themselves are staggering, the horses, fine but 650 cows ? 300 pigs? 600 sheep ? If this is all true, not a particularly good advert for UK farming, as this is only 1 sanctuary.

 

[Sharpy]

advert in the daily mail, sos, for donations/hay. Hillside animal sanctuary.
they claim to be home for:
2500 horses, ponies and donkeys.
650 cows
300 pigs
600 sheep and goats
and lots of other animals, including dogs and deer.
That is a hell of a lot of stock, advert gives the impression, all kept on 1 site, I cannot believe that is true, if numbers are correct, surely would be over several sites. The numbers themselves are staggering, the horses, fine but 650 cows ? 300 pigs? 600 sheep ? If this is all true, not a particularly good advert for UK farming, as this is only 1 sanctuary.

If nothing else that's a lot of dung to get rid of.

 

[anzani]

advert in the daily mail, sos, for donations/hay. Hillside animal sanctuary.
they claim to be home for:
2500 horses, ponies and donkeys.
650 cows
300 pigs
600 sheep and goats
and lots of other animals, including dogs and deer.
That is a hell of a lot of stock, advert gives the impression, all kept on 1 site, I cannot believe that is true, if numbers are correct, surely would be over several sites. The numbers themselves are staggering, the horses, fine but 650 cows ? 300 pigs? 600 sheep ? If this is all true, not a particularly good advert for UK farming, as this is only 1 sanctuary.

Hillside animal sanctuary

Says that they have given sanctuary to 2500 horses. How many animals have you cared for since 1995?

 

[delilah]

If this is all true, not a particularly good advert for UK farming,

why ?

 

[JCMaloney]

Remember them on Countryfile when a farmer went Vegan or Veggie and sent his cows there to "live out their natural".

 

[upnortheast]

Hillside animal sanctuary.

Very vocal, Foot & Mouth time I seem to recall. Against culling, pro vaccine

 

[delilah]

Remember them on Countryfile when a farmer went Vegan or Veggie and sent his cows there to "live out their natural".

Perhaps weirdly, I actually like this film. More about a farmer facing family and farming community pressure and expectations, than veganism.

https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2018/10/09/73-cows/

 

[Gav]

Must be getting to the time of year where the animals they rescue are out on their waterlogged straw islands on the marshes near Great Yarmouth again.....

 

[JP1]

advert in the daily mail, sos, for donations/hay. Hillside animal sanctuary.
they claim to be home for:
2500 horses, ponies and donkeys.
650 cows
300 pigs
600 sheep and goats
and lots of other animals, including dogs and deer.
That is a hell of a lot of stock, advert gives the impression, all kept on 1 site, I cannot believe that is true, if numbers are correct, surely would be over several sites. The numbers themselves are staggering, the horses, fine but 650 cows ? 300 pigs? 600 sheep ? If this is all true, not a particularly good advert for UK farming, as this is only 1 sanctuary.

Advert in the EDP last weekend, Norfolk way. R's father had never heard of them but he's still grinding his teeth ..... Donate £5 for a bale of hay ....

 

[anzani]

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[Exfarmer]

They alomg with their similarly afflicted friends down the road , campaigned long and hard against horse export and slaughter. Now the pigeons have come home to roost.

 

[delilah]

They alomg with their similarly afflicted friends down the road , campaigned long and hard against horse export and slaughter. Now the pigeons have come home to roost.

Oi, @spin cycle , he's calling you and your pigeons 'afflicted'. Bit harsh.
.

 

[Sharpy]

Must be getting to the time of year where the animals they rescue are out on their waterlogged straw islands on the marshes near Great Yarmouth again.....

?

 

[Highland Mule]

Advert in the EDP last weekend, Norfolk way. R's father had never heard of them but he's still grinding his teeth ..... Donate £5 for a bale of hay ....

Thought hay was more expensive there than here - that’s what I was paying for 4x4 rounds earlier this year, but it wouldn’t have been horse quality.

 

[som farmer]

why ?

those numbers of livestock, suggest ill treatment, on a large scale, if they are rescued. This isn't the only sanctuary, I feel it gives a negative view of ag. The ad, clearly states 'we are home to', this implies, correctly, or incorrectly, that the numbers they quote, are the present numbers. It is the suggestion, they take in, every day, animals, rescued from intensive factory farming industry.
Personally, i would love to take my dairy bull calves, there, to be rescued, from being shot, something we dislike, and avoid, if we can, but i would wager, they would turn them away.

 

[Highland Mule]

those numbers of livestock, suggest ill treatment, on a large scale, if they are rescued. This isn't the only sanctuary, I feel it gives a negative view of ag. The ad, clearly states 'we are home to', this implies, correctly, or incorrectly, that the numbers they quote, are the present numbers. It is the suggestion, they take in, every day, animals, rescued from intensive factory farming industry.
Personally, i would love to take my dairy bull calves, there, to be rescued, from being shot, something we dislike, and avoid, if we can, but i would wager, they would turn them away.

Agreed, sort of - but the fact that leisure rejects (equine) outnumber agriculture so heavily suggests that those evil farmers are actually better at looking after animals than the general public are.

 

[lizzieS]

I’ve not heard good things about this place. Funnily enough overstocking was one of the main things...

 

[Chopsy Varmint]

Agreed, sort of - but the fact that leisure rejects (equine) outnumber agriculture so heavily suggests that those evil farmers are actually better at looking after animals than the general public are.

I suspect a fair number of the equines are from a particular tribe of the general public, those with a penchant for skinny dogs and other people's quad bikes.

 

[melted welly]

those numbers of livestock, suggest ill treatment, on a large scale, if they are rescued. This isn't the only sanctuary, I feel it gives a negative view of ag. The ad, clearly states 'we are home to', this implies, correctly, or incorrectly, that the numbers they quote, are the present numbers. It is the suggestion, they take in, every day, animals, rescued from intensive factory farming industry.
Personally, i would love to take my dairy bull calves, there, to be rescued, from being shot, something we dislike, and avoid, if we can, but i would wager, they would turn them away.

but what exactly have they been “rescued” from?

Like the “rescued” broiler hens, they’ve not been liberated, from some animal gulag. They’re at the end of their productive life and they’ve ended up in a sanctuary rather than a slaughterhouse because there’s a charity that has created a demand for them and it makes people who give to these charities feel noble and good about themselves. When the dripping tap of bored and lonely final salary pension recipients dries up, these places are in trouble.

there was an idiot on the radio up here who’d “rescued” a heap of rabbits or cats or something from Eastern Europe and looking after them was slowly bankrupting her, so managed to put an appeal out on national radio for donations

 

[som farmer]

Agreed, sort of - but the fact that leisure rejects (equine) outnumber agriculture so heavily suggests that those evil farmers are actually better at looking after animals than the general public are.

many people, would assume, horses were farmed, many urban dwellers, have no idea of farming, just assume, it's bad.
Food comes from a s/mkt. A sister lives in a town, met many of their friends, they are quite well off, so friends, similar, and they have no idea, about how food is produced. We wear smocks, suck straw, and still use horses, and are thick.