Page 10 - Hillside 2017 Newsletter for Web

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 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 firsthand 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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