Open Arms Farm DE.

10/12/2024

Minnie lays down every single evening right after I get out of the shower! So now I’m out in the pasture, sitting in p**p, and letting Minnie drool all over me while she relaxes (from her super difficult day of being a cow). 💩🐮

10/03/2024

Tomorrow is a busy day and I truly don’t wanna forget! We’ve had our Mick for 1 year🥹

He’s older than a year but since he had such a rough life before we met him, we aren’t gunna count it. Mick’s new life and our life with Mick started 1 year ago, tomorrow. Before we brought him home he spent close to 3 weeks at New Bolton Center once he was surrendered to us, before that I’m not entirely sure.

He’s been our hardest rescue, our most stubborn, our strongest, and my favorite to snuggle with. The snuggles are rare but I think that’s why I love them so much.

If you’ve ever had the honors of meeting mick, you’ll know that he’s happiest when he’s with his big sister Minnie and no one else. As long as he has his Minnie, Mick is content.

Even though it’s been a year, Mick is still learning life as a blind steer. He wanders aimlessly into his little pasture and most of the time needs Minnie’s help to get him back to his hay, but all he has to do is call for her and if she’s not already next to him she finds him right away and leads him back.

Watching Mick grow into the steer he is now has been so rewarding. When he first came home from the hospital Mick was fighting for his life for what felt like months. I was dosing antibiotics and other medications to him several times a day. I was running him back and forth to recheck appointments in PA every few weeks. There were days when I wasn’t sure that putting him through all of it was fair. It took months for Mick’s skin and coat to regulate itself. It took months for his body condition to improve. It’s taken close to a year for him to trust me.

Remembering his rehab time with us has made me so emotional so instead of blabbering on for 2 more hours enjoy some picture of Mick over the past year.

Happy Birthday Mick Mick🧡

09/20/2024

Happy Friday!!!! Here’s a picture of me and my baby Glo💜

09/15/2024

Did some snuggles with my boys today! Gloria was ignoring me so the stinky boys came up for some kisses❤️

08/30/2024

Ava still needs financial help! She’s staying with a foster right now and will be getting her eye procedure in 2 weeks. Anything is appreciated

08/23/2024

***SENSITIVE CONTENT***

Ava is a 6 week old kitten! She was found by a Good Samaritan in a neighborhood in Camden, de. When she was found, Ava was covered in fleas and ticks, along with maggots.

It is suspected that Ava was abandoned by her mother due to her condition. Her eyes were so infected that her left one had already began to rupture and her right eye wasn't too far behind.

We've been treating Ava's eyes and upper respiratory symptoms since 3 weeks of age. Her nasal discharge and congestion has resolved but I don't think we can do much more for her eyes. Her vet plans to preform an enucleation on her left eye in the next week or so. If her right eye doesn't continue to heal she will remove it as well.

Ava has not had any vaccines yet due to her age and condition.

Ava is FIV/FLP negative

Ava has been dewormed 2 times and has had 1 dose of revolution + for kittens

Ava currently weighs 1.9 pounds

Ava is a great eater and is working on liter training

Ava will be looking for a home following her procedure!

The money raised will hopefully cover her eye procedure, vaccines, and spay!

As always, any little bit helps💜

https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/97kRoDfAA5

https://venmo.com/u/morganacase

https://cash.app/$morganacase

SHARE SHARE SHARE

08/04/2024

What a morning! Tayler’s home and already hard at work😤 Thanks to Bailey Home Services lots more trees are gone and after clean up the fence can go up! It’s gunna be a long week full of repairs and heavy lifting 💪🏼. It’s so nice having the other half of Open Arms Home❤️

08/01/2024

Got to spend my birthday with Stewart! His new family had him castrated yesterday which meant lots of snuggles and “observation” today❤️

So fortunate that there are like minded people out there to adopt our rehabbed animals! So happy for stew and his new family. Couldn’t ask for a better way to spend my birthday!

07/22/2024

I almost forgot! Minnie is a handmade stuffed animal now. If you’d like one reach out it to Jhm creations!!

Minnie was the inspiration for this collaboration with Open Arms Farm DE. 🩵🩵 oh how we love Minnie the blind cow 🩵🩵

07/21/2024

We said goodbye to Stewart today! He joined his forever herd with a good friend of mine. It’s always hard saying goodbye to these animals, especially after caring for them at their lowest. I know stew will have the best life with his new family (Kayla Secoy) and I’ll always have my Jhm creations Stewart stuffy to love on.

We love you Stewart! Forever and ever!❤️

07/18/2024

YALLLLLLLL. This camera in the run-in catches me at my worst….every. single. time. Tonight Minnie and Mick were eating their hay, being good cows (for once), while I cleaned their area and slipped. Right on my face. Lost my glasses and all. I looked up at the camera to see if my husband was looking at me and he has the nerve to say “what are you doing?”

If you zoom in on Minnie she is looking (haha) right in my direction probably wondering why I was crying in her p**pies💩💛

07/18/2024

Bestie girl had lunch with me today! Gloria is the biggest BABY. Her horns are crazy and so are those eyes. I’ve said it a million times and I’ll keep saying it, this cow is the best thing that’s ever happened to me💜

07/16/2024

Minnie was MUNCHING on our walk around the back pasture tonight. (Featuring our big trash pile from the previous owners💃🏼). The last picture was right after she decided to chomp the dirt, then it was time to head inside with her little brother mickyyyyy ❤️‍🔥

Minnie hasn’t gotten out much this week due to the heat. It stays about 15-20 degrees cooler in her run-in. We have things for her to engage in but she LOVES grassy time.🌱

07/07/2024

I have no idea how I got so lucky to have this opportunity to love these babies❤️ Gloria, Earl, Harvey, and Bart will be our last to come home in the fall🤞🏼 Until then they are keeping cool in the shade at The Little Farm!

These cows mean more to me than anything in this world. Everything we do is for them and their adopted siblings. If you’re interested in helping with their pasture please reach out to us! We will be starting the fund raising soon!

07/06/2024

My shining star, Howie🫶🏼

He’s enjoying some hay this evening with his friends!

07/05/2024

Happy 4th from some of the cutest babies in the USA🇺🇸♥️💙

06/29/2024

Thank you so much Jhm creations for this beautiful art work! If you’re interested in supporting a small business and our rescue please reach out! Jess may or may not be able to make us more of these!

06/28/2024

We focus on livestock animals at Open Arms, but recently someone surrendered this little guy and his siblings to us!

Unfortunately, I lost all 3 of his litter mates in less then 48 hours BUT this little guy has done nothing but grow stronger. Baby Timmy is going on ONE WEEK of life!

He currently has some pretty bad eye discharge but we’ve been addressing that with a veterinarian and keeping him nice and clean. He’s getting milk every 2-4 hours (depending on what he tells me to do). His urine and f***l matter is spot on and he’s gaining weight each and every day.

Timmy will be available for adoption in 8-10 weeks with his first round of vaccines covered (hopefully by donations). We’d also LOVE to cover the cost of his neuter for his new owners!

If you’re interested in Timmy or know someone looking for a fighter keep this baby in mind! For now , baby Timmy will continue to wake me up bright and early and scream my whole 40 minute drive to work because I can’t hold him❤️

06/25/2024

On tonights episode of the two blind cows….minnie got me from the front while mick, somehow, simultaneously got me from the back, lifting me into the air. I feel like an acrobat.

Thanks for making feeding time and chore time exciting✨💥

06/16/2024

Happy Fathers Day to the bestest dad to all of our rescues! Tayler is co-owner/founder of Open Arms Farm. He helped build the rescue we have and has given these animals so much love and comfort. Even though he’s now stationed in Texas for 4 years we decided to keep our herd here in Delaware. He comes back to see us every 6-8 weeks❤️

06/14/2024

to when my babies were tiny!

05/25/2024

What a huge milestone for our rescue! It truly takes a village and we couldn’t have done it without all of the donations and help from family + friends.

Our blind cows Minnie and Mick are home at the rescue! They’ve had the privilege of growing up at The Little Farm in Camden, De. Minnie has lived in the same stall for over two years, she came home to the same farm after her stays at New Bolton, it’s been her home. I met Mick for the first time at The Little Farm after his 2 week stay at New Bolton, it’s all he’s ever known.

Even though the big cows (Gloria, Earl, Harvey, and Bart) will reside at The Little Farm for just a while longer we finally have OVER HALF the herd home for good and couldn’t be more grateful.

To Tricia Hawryluk, thank you for introducing this life to me and giving me every opportunity to save everything I could. Thank you for opening your barn up to us and allowing me to practice my passion every single day. Without the opportunities you’ve given Tayler and I we wouldn’t have any what we do. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and so do all of our babies!

Our next steps for Minnie and Mick is to get their pasture built! Right now they have a roomie run-in, I’ll continue to take them on walks for now! And paint! We need to paint their run-in!

For the big moos, I’ll continue to visit them everyday at lunch for some love! We are hoping to raise more money to build their pasture in the fall. For right now I know they are safe where they are!

Again, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. These animals are so lucky to have such a great support system ❤️