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The Farmers That... Just Couldn’t...

Here are some of the many animals, including over 100 goats, also
pigs, horses and ponies, that we gave a home to in October 2017
when their owners could no longer afford to feed them. The
owners ran a farm shop where they had intended to sell meat but,
having bred the goats, they couldn’t face having them slaughtered!
We also took in 16 cows which they also couldn’t send to the same
fate after they saw first-hand the dreadful suffering that animals
were enduring at the slaughterhouse.
When first in business, they took a herd of sheep to the
slaughterhouse. When they started to leave, all the sheep jumped
out of the abattoir pen and followed them back to the trailer! The
‘farmers’ loaded them up and took them back home again.
In the end, the kindhearted ‘would-be farmers’ found their business
financially unviable and became bankrupt. We took in their animals,
including some heavy horses, who had nowhere else to go.

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