Brinsley Animal Rescue

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.

11/07/2025

----Update, sadly despite out best efforts and seemingly improving, she has passed away, she was just too far gone to save----

Late last night as it was getting dark, we managed to catch this female buzzard who was found grounded.

Our examination reviled that she was extremely thin, no doubt caused by mouth and throat trauma, there is necrotic, infected and bruised tissue, the mouth was also full of newly hatched maggots.

Treatment started with cleaning out the maggots and dead tissue, we could then start feeding. It would be too painful to eat naturally and so we tube feed her twice daily. We mix up a special blend of raptor rearing food which we inject by tube straight into the birds crop.

We then admitted pain relief to manage her pain as well as antibiotics to get on top of the infection.

Its really is touch and go, but there is already an improvement, on arrival she was lying flat, she just has enough strength now to perch.

Another slow recovery involving intensive care from our dedicated team of volunteers.

07/07/2025

A massive thank you to Stewart who held a Captains fund raising day at his golf course and raised a massive £2,750, we really appreciate Stewart organising this fundraising event and everyone who has donated to the cause. Being a charity, we rely solely on donations from the public to pay our bills.

At this time of year we take in a lot of wildlife, all needing specialist care and often expensive veterinary costs, this huge donation really does help us save animals.

01/07/2025

These siblings were brought to us when tier nest was disturbed during gardening, they are 2 of 9 hoglets currently in our care.

30/06/2025

Another 5 ducklings released safely back into the wild.

30/06/2025

As always a massive thankyou to the lovely people and organisers of the who gave us their ‘Cow Pat Motorbike Ralley’ straw bales after their event. It’s already being used as bedding in the stables for our animals to chill out in during the heat!

29/06/2025

27/06/2025

Jamie has made the news.

Jamie is paralysed in his rear legs but it is hoped he will recover and be rehomed as a pet.

26/06/2025

If you love rabbits, why not go to the amazing The National Rabbit Festival here in Nottingham, we are going again this year along with 10 of our volunteers.

25/06/2025

This chap was handed into a vets at the weekend, after he'd been hit by a car in a road accident. This young lamb received superficial external injuries and was unable to use his rear legs. X-rays have not revealed any major internal issues, he was then transferred into our care.

Further examination confirmed he has reflex reactions and feels pain in the paralysed rear legs, this is a positive sign. It is possible that the paralysis is caused by a displaced lumbar disc or hematoma (bleed) pushing on the sciatic nerve, if so, this can recover very slowly over time, he may even make a full recovery. It could also be permanent nerve damage which would mean he will never recover.

Jamie is content with eating grass, receiving medication and physiotherapy from us, we hope so much that we can turn this tragedy into hope and a new life for little Jamie.