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The Farmers That... Just Couldn’t...

Here are some of the many animals, including cows, goats. pigs.
horses and ponies, that we gave a home to in October 2017 wh
their owners could no longer afford to feed them. The owners
a farm shop where they had intended to sell meat but, having br
the goats, they couldn’t face having them slaughtered! We also t
in 16 cows which they also couldn’t send to the same fate after
saw first-hand the dreadful suffering that animals were enduring
the slaughterhouse.
When first in business, they took a herd of sheep to the
slaughterhouse. When they started to leave, all the sheep jump
out of the abattoir pen and followed them back to the trailer! T
‘farmers’ loaded them up and took them back home again.
In the end, the kindhearted ‘would-be farmers’ found their busin
financially unviable and became bankrupt. We took in their anim
including some heavy horses, who had nowhere else to go.

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