Brinsley Animal Rescue

28/07/2025

After having his breakfast this morning, it was time for release back into the wild after full recovery, for this starving Kestrel.

26/07/2025

26/07/2025

We have just arrived back from a commercial hen rescue, we have saved 100 commercial hens of several thousand that were going for slaughter, now at the end of their commercial life, only 18 months old.

If you can offer a safe, life-long home to any lovely girls, please message us directly, not comment on the post.

24/07/2025

As snug as…….an owl in a towel. ❤️This grounded owl came in a few days ago and is very weak and thin. We are currently tube feeding him and have given him some basic meds whilst we diagnose what has caused him to be so ill. We also want to get him strong enough to be able to xray. Although we can’t feel any fractures, radiographs will tell us more about his internal organs and what is going on with his anatomy which we may be able to treat. For now he is snug, warm, well fed and having medication to make him more comfortable.

23/07/2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1mzd0kn3k5o

Carly Knott caught the piglet then took it home to her surprised husband.

21/07/2025

Meet Felicity, named by her finder or Princess Flick as we often call her.

We took a call about Felicity just over a week ago, the caller found her on a busy road, thankfully they stopped to save her, it wasn't obvious where she had come from so they took her home to safety. Soon after realising that she was going to grow into a huge commercial pig and having failed to locate a farm where she had no doubt escaped from, they called us to see if we could help. We have a lot of experience in hand rearing and fortunately for Felicity we have a spare stable to keep her in, until large enough to join one of our herds.

Princess is a young commercial piglet, probably only 4 or 5 weeks old, she will grow huge, probably several hundred kilos once fully grown. She is still consuming milk, she spends a lot of time sleeping but in between naps, she is very excitable and playful, a massive distraction for our volunteers!

20/07/2025

This mum and her 13 ducklings were caught as she was trying to cross a road to take her ducklings to safety, mum though was really struggling to walk.

Mum has an injury to her left leg on the knee joint and is now being treated for it. She at least is safe in an aviary where we'll provide food and water as well as sanctuary until all are ready for release.

19/07/2025

We've had around 60 Mallard ducklings admitted this year so far, we thought that these 5 being released this week would be the last 5 until next year, but just as we were getting ready to take them on thier journey to the release site, another 13 tiny ducklings arrived!

17/07/2025

I mean come on!! Love love love this beautiful cake and lovely card from our volunteer Chloe. Colin the caterpillar is so over! This amazing little cake is vegan and also gives advice on hedgehogs!!. We are in love with Norman The Hedgehog from Thankyou so much Chloe for this gorgeous cake!

This is NOT a paid AD. We just love beautiful things and beautiful vegan cake and credit where is due to an amazing concept. Tomorrow’s volunteers are going to be so pleased with Norman.

15/07/2025

This is a nestling Sparrow Hawk, one of many birds we are currently hand rearing.

At this time of the year wildlife is breeding, so like many other wildlife rescues, we get inundated with baby wildlife and get to the point we have to say no more. Rearing wildlife is very challenging and time consuming, often needing around the clock care. Whilst this nestling found on the floor needed to be rescued, many birds and other wildlife are often picked up by well meaning people, but should have been left with their parents, who can best care for thier young, much better than we can.

If in doubt as to weather and the animal needs help, it's always best to seek advice prior to interfering, ideally get photos, this can really help us provide the best advice.

14/07/2025

Late yesterday evening as it cooled down sufficiently to be chasing animals about, whilst everyone else seemed to be enjoying the evening with a BBQ, we were busy catching and vaccinating our herd of pet sheep, goats and cows for Bluetongue.

Bluetongue is a viral disease that affects ruminants like sheep, cattle, and goats, and is transmitted by biting insects. The virus is spreading across the country and although not contagious between animals, the warming climate brings with is more and more biting insects which are spreading the disease.

Vaccinating is quite stressful particularly for the cows, so that we can safety inject them, we need to safely contain them into what's known as a "cattle crush". Once it was all over, they were very relived to be running around the fields again. The goats and sheep can just be bribed with some food and they are a lot less powerful than the cows.

For us its not over yet, they all need a second booster in 2 weeks and annually thereafter.

13/07/2025

We rescue so many different species of animals and the little ones are no exception, but they can be very challenging. This is one of two tiny wild mice brought to us, sadly one hasn't made it, this chap though a week on and still strong and doing well with his regular feeds.

Even the opening on a 1ml syringe is too large for such a tiny mouth, so we use a special adaptor.