Lizzie, Ethel and Kevin (sheep – Wiltshire cross). Arrived 27 September 2015 Lizzie and her twin lambs were found at a semi rural weekend market with about 26 other ewes and lambs bound for immediate slaughter if not purchased. Lizzie was extremely emaciated and unable to feed her lambs – she kept kicking them away or pulling away from them and the lambs, clearly hungry, would try to feed from any other ewe in their pen only to be rejected again and again. Their release was negotiated by some caring…
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Daphne
Daphne (sheep – Dorper). Arrived 30 August 2015 Daphne was rescued after giving birth to twin lambs who tragically, did not survive. One was taken by a fox or possibly a dog, and the other was found dead by her side. Daphne herself was bloated and unable to rise, so she was picked up and driven to vet, where she received treatment and was thankfully saved. We were fully prepared to pay for the vet, but when the owners were contacted to alert them to that fact that we had…
Arnie
Arnie (sheep – Dorper). Arrived 16 June 2015 As a tiny lamb, Arnie was saved from a fox attack by a worker at a shearing shed. She hand-reared him for 12 weeks but didn’t have the time to spend on him that she knew he needed and he spent all day alone with only a Rottweiler for companionship… everyone needs to spend time with their own kind, no matter how nice the other species are, so he was surrendered into our care at Happy Hooves Farm Sanctuary. Arnie and Baart…