Month: May 2021

THE GENTLE JENNY BECAME PART OF THE WELFARE WORK IN 1985 WHEN SHE WAS APPROXIMATELY TEN YEARS OLD. During the daily, (traversing four neighbours’ properties, as the receding floodwater is still causing access difficulties), high-on-the-hill herd inspection on Tuesday, 18th May, it was noted that 46 year old Matilda was laying down more frequently and…

The donkeys all survived the horror of the flood that devastated their grazing paddocks 5 weeks ago. Their grass that sustains them was destroyed, their shelters were submerged to the roofs (12feet high), and everything below that height was ruined, including all but one solar powered energiser. The good news is that the deep water…