08/01/2025
❄️❄️ Cold Weather ❄️❄️
Please ensure your animals are catered for in this current spell of increasingly cold weather.
Pack hides, sheds, hutches (goes without saying we don’t condone using hutches unless as a hide within a suitable enclosure), cardboard boxes - everything you can with floor to ceiling straw. Snugglesafe heat pads are also a lifesaver in these temperatures. This photo is all I could find to use without trawling, but at the moment their hides are now in their enclosure filled with straw and there’s a third of a bale of straw piled in this house to keep them cosy. We also use clear tarpaulins stabled to the walls of the pens to prevent wind chill and drifting snow/rain - this works really well.
Remember that our animals are entirely dependent on us for their welfare, and if you know of anyone that keeps outdoor animals and perhaps won’t have thought to help keep them safe, contact them to remind them. Then perhaps we won’t be sitting in a vet waiting room listening to stories of rabbits that ‘froze to death’ as I was last week.
A straw bale will cost around £5 from a farm shop - there’s no excuse not to keep our animals safe.
