Animals that suffer from deformation and aging are often slaughtered as soon as they lose the economic value. In this farm, those animals found a safe home and shelter.
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00:00The sanctuary started just as a hobby really, as four hens in the back garden.
00:26We ended up taking on some sheep and then more goats and within that group of goats
00:33there were some very elderly and disabled goats and it became obvious that that was
00:37something that we could do really well here.
00:48Some of the disabilities are obvious, so they're physical, you can see for example we've got
00:53a duck that's got its foot on the wrong way round as we've got a lot of arthritic goats
00:59and sheep.
01:00Some animals come and they've had a very traumatic past, they've maybe been abused by people
01:04or they've been put in a social group that's been wrong for them.
01:12So in here we have nine ex-battery or ex-intensively farmed hens.
01:20So when they came to us, they were completely bald.
01:27And this handsome chap is Carlos, who's almost fully blind, he's got a tiny little bit of
01:32sight but he's very confident and that's his little friend Philip.
01:42You can definitely see the animals blossom here.
01:49It takes time sometimes with the oldies, particularly if they've had a bad start or
01:53they've had a bad life before they come here, and we just have to be patient.
01:59They're much more trusting, they're happy, they look as if they're smiling when they
02:03look at us.
02:05They know that they're safe and they know that they're loved.