Emergency Procedure

If you need to report an emergency to us such as injured or escaped livestock or damaged infrastructure please follow this procedure:

  1. Call the office on 01256 381190.
  2. If no one answers, wait for the answering message which will detail the name and mobile number of the member of staff who is currently on call.
  3. Phone the on-call member of staff who will then respond accordingly.

NOTES:

  • Please do not phone a member of staff directly unless you know they are on-call.

  • If you are unsure if a particular situation qualifies as an emergency then please phone the on-call member of staff anyway so that they can make the decision on how to proceed.

  • Most importantly of all – please do not report injuries or sick animals via the blog alone – always call the emergency on-call contact.


    Thank you!

    Saturday, 31 May 2025

    Sat 31st May - staff update

    114 escaped into the old bottle dump under the pine trees on Friday evening, discovered and called in by Michael. It was getting dark and she was showing no signs of venturing away from the fenceline so I decided to extend the boundary to give her more space and wait until morning.

    I managed to lead her back into the pasture area this morning and have repaired the fence breach (W3W: intro.request.ownership). She's showing no ill effects from her night out and immediately rejoined the other 3 once she was back in.

    Thursday, 29 May 2025

    Thursday 29th May

     Found all 4 munching grass at W3W: locating.booth.coil 11.30am

    216 seems to have a small graze and small dark 'bump' on her side, near her left front leg. Possibly a tic? Surrounded by lots of flies. She wasn't keen for me to get close, so these are the best photos I could get. 

    Visited today as unable to visit on Friday as usual.



    Tuesday, 27 May 2025

    Tuesday 27th May - Staff Check

    All four girls seen and came up to say hello. Two of them then decided to have a wrestling match so I left them to it...! 

    All good

     If a little moist 

    Monday, 26 May 2025

    Sunday 26th May - All Good

     All happily munching this evening in the twilight 

    Friday, 23 May 2025

    Friday 23rd May

    Found 216, 235 and 108 near the canal. No sign of 114. All looking good and eating. Some bothersome flies around.

    12.30pm W3W: Stitching.unscrew.expectant

    Thursday, 22 May 2025

    Thursday 22nd PM - Staff Check

    All four girls grazing in the grassy area near the old fire site. Great to see them slowly putting on condition. 

    I've bashed in some new fence posts and re stapled everything, as they were pushing their heads through to graze the grass on the other side 🙄 

    I've also brought the no fence fencline further into the site to prevent them doing this and other things like scratching themselves on the field gate/people feeding them from the gate.  
     The GPS signal here is not 100% accurate but we need to train them that fenceline = no go,  they probably will be receiving warnings via their collars over the next few days as they adjust to it and it may be a few metres in front of the physical fencline. I'll be monitoring via the app but just to let you know. 




    Monday, 19 May 2025

    Monday 19th May - Staff Check

    All dozing by the field gate entrance this morning at 9am. All looking well. 

    I notice they've been pushing on the fenceline next to the field gate. Ive tweaked the nofence pasture boundary to see if this helps but I'll come back in the next few days to strengthen the fence with new posts. 


    Friday, 16 May 2025

    Friday 16th May

    Easily located today with the help of Nofence - thank you.

    All 4 sunning themselves and chewing the cud. Quite a few pesky flies around. 114 has a slight red smear between their shoulders - probably as a result of a scratch.

    Does anyone know their names? (114, 216, 225 and 108).

    W3W: muted.dice.valley   11.10am

    Wednesday, 14 May 2025

    Wednesday 14th May - Staff Check

    All four happily grazing and on the move. They've put on a bit of condition which is great to see and seem very happy here.  They followed me back to the gate, calling and attracting the attention of several passers by stopped to talk about them. 

    I'll probably get a sign to remind people not to feed them to put on the field gate. Nobody was today, but given they are quite friendly cows that attract a lot of attention it seems like a good idea. 

    Cheers 

    Zoe 


    Saturday, 10 May 2025

    2 good, 2 deep bushes

     2 were deep in the bushes but were happily munching, unusually the two groups were quite a distance apart

    Friday, 9 May 2025

    All good

     Seen up close by gate, appears very content 

    Friday 9th May

    Spotted all 4 at W3W: demand.fittingly.mammoth at 11.30am. Couldn't get very close but they were clearly busy eating and walking around. 

    Thursday, 8 May 2025

    Wednesday, 7 May 2025

    Tuesday, 6 May 2025

    All good

     All four happily munching 

    Friday 6th June

    Visited at 2.15pm but only just able to blog. All OK as Zoe reported.  216's marks I saw last week have all gone/healed. W3W: dignity.bl...