Playtime for Buddy and Stormzy ❤️
Extra special feeds 🌼🌼🌼
We have several horses and ponies with us at the moment who benefit from Marigold, Cleavers and Mint.
We add them to feeds of those that need it most and also add them to our donkeys straw feeders as added enrichment
Thanks to donations we receive of these and to everyone who has contributed plants and funds to grow them around the site. Our volunteer gardener Beatrice funds and sources many of these & can often be seen snipping them off the plants to keep the supply chain going 🫶🏻🌱🌾💐
Pickle and Theodore enjoying an afternoon nap together 💛
Pickle and Theo enjoying an afternoon nap 😴
One of our newest residents Nancy enjoying a hedgerow net 🍃🌿
Horses may enjoy a variety of items including cow parsley, cleavers (sticky weed), hawthorn, hazel, blackberry, rosehips, thistles, nettles, dandelion and willow. Hedgerow nets are great enrichment 🐴
Meet our residents …
Whiskey
Beautiful pony Whiskey is another of our most recent arrivals 💗
She’s under rehabilitation for Laminitis, a painful hoof condition which needs careful management.
Here she is enjoying her recently donated Hay Ball which helps her to problem solve and use up calories in order to get some tasty hay 👅 🥰
Meet our residents…..
Ellie, a miniature Shetland and one of our recently rescued ponies! She’s having a great time with her Himalayan salt lick and treat ball hay feeder, filled with herbs and fresh grass. These wonderful items, gifted to us by our supporters through our Amazon wish list, bring so much joy to our ponies. The wish list https://shorturl.at/5HziQ helps us provide special treats and much-needed items for the yard without cutting into our essential budget for vet fees, feed, and bedding. Thank you for your support!
💧Welfare Wednesday 💧
We’ve been helping the residents keep cool and hydrated today with apple bobbing,willow branches and water buffets 💧
It’s so important to keep animals hydrated and with access to clean fresh water at all times 👌🏻
Our resident baby donkey Theo has found a comfy spot with his buddy Alex 🥰
Our resident baby Theo has found a comfy spot on his buddy Alex! 🥹
He is getting braver every day and would love to meet any new visitors 🥰
We are open 10am to 3pm every day through the summer holidays 💫
Breakfast in bed for Rafael ☕️🥣
Welfare Wednesday 🍃
Fun Fact about Donkeys! 🪵
Donkeys in their natural habitat are both browsers and grazers, meaning that a large part of their ideal diet should be fibrous material such as branches and tree bark.
Not all branches are safe, though!
We always need a supply of safe to eat branches for our little herd of five donkeys.
It helps them mentally as well as physically
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If you are local enough to deliver, and have access to any of the tree types on the list below which are currently being pruned, or cut back, please contacting us to arrange delivery or just drop them in during our opening hours 🍀🌿🌱🍃🍂
https://www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk/for-owners/poisonous-plants-trees/safe-trees-for-donkeys
One of our most recent arrivals on site,Lexi has been thriving on her special diet including British Horse Feeds Fibre Beet 💖
This company kindly donates vouchers to us to redeem at our feed supplier The Blue Barn LTD which we exchange for Fibrebeet and Speedi beet, this is one of the main types of feed we use for all our residents so it’s hugely appreciated!
The residents, both new and old all do really well on these feeds and it especially helps those who need weight gain and extra fibre. It’s soaked so it’s perfect for the older animals with poor teeth too 👌🏻
Here is beautiful girl Lexi saying thank you 🥰
Coco taking in the calming sounds of classical radio
Coco enjoying the calming sounds of Classical FM 📻🫶🏻
Twinkle, Echo, Bernie and Rafael are always happy to see us on a morning ready to come in for breakfast 💛
Rafael dreaming of playing in the field with his friends 💭 💤 #dreaming #sleep #horse
