so there these 3000 ducks due to be killed next week http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Che...ed-new-homes/story-22051349-detail/story.html

All is not lost all 3,000 ducks have been offered sanctuary at The Retreat Animal Rescue. Urgent transport help is required THIS WEEKEND!

Pick up address is: Norton Field Farm, Norton Lane, Norton Heath, Mandeville, Essex (CM4 0LN)
Drop off address is: The Retreat, Brick Yard Farm, Cripple Hill, High Halden, Ashford, Kent (TN26 3LJ)

If anybody wants to help in a major rescue, then this is your chance!
Cat carriers/dog crates will be required and old clothes as ducks can be very messy!

These animals can be collected between now and 5pm today and from 9am - 5pm tomorrow to be transported to The Retreat. After that they are going to slaughter so please can everybody SHARE this info asap and get all of these birds to safety? Just turn up.

I'm going I have managed to get together a couple of dog crates from a localish rescue, and donations towards fuel appreciated its 220 mile round trip for me so is going to cost a fair bit in fuel so i might only manage 1 run.

Small Animal Cardboard Carrier are £3 i have room for a couple that will mean an extra duck saved if anyone wants to donate paypal is xxx please send as gift so paypal don't rob fees.

EDIT ps please don't bother with the eating ducks jokes i've heard them all today already

Don't forget air freshener Dave, they're smelly animals in confined spaces!

Most Easterly Pandas said:

Don't forget air freshener Dave, they're smelly animals in confined spaces!

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Damned noisy as well

My eldest had a load in his landy yesterday, bringing them back to put on his boss' farm.
He said if he did it again today, he'd be able to bring a few hundred ducks back - but they'd all get 'special treatment' first:devil:

poor things were all kept in a barn with no room to move, crammed in living in their own poo. they are supposed to be white.

here they are in the holding pen at the rescue queueing for a wash




shame i couldn't afford to do a 2nd trip

dave said:

poor things were all kept in a barn with no room to move, crammed in living in their own poo. they are supposed to be white.

here they are in the holding pen at the rescue queueing for a wash

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shame i couldn't afford to do a 2nd trip

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Well done for saving some of them

'Wouidnt the RSPCA help..with the unlucky ones that are still there/ atleast getting some of them Transported out to safety'?.

oldhammer said:

'Wouidnt the RSPCA help..with the unlucky ones that are still there/ atleast getting some of them Transported out to safety'?.

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Thats not what the RSPCA are for, its animal welfare, they're looked after and slaughtering them isn't against their welfare.

Most Easterly Pandas said:

Thats not what the RSPCA are for, its animal welfare, they're looked after and slaughtering them isn't against their welfare.

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ok,. iwill stop making donations to the RSPCA then,
ialways thought they was there for the animals,

(poor things were all kept in a barn with no room to move, crammed in living in their own poo)

^ surely that's enough reason, ?

oldhammer said:

ok,. iwill stop making donations to the RSPCA then,

ialways thought they was there for the animals,



(poor things were all kept in a barn with no room to move, crammed in living in their own poo)



^ surely that's enough reason, ?

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Sadly that's the very definition of 'free range' ie not battery farmed in little cages.

All they were doing was producing eggs so if you find that upsetting you should probably give up eating chicken because what they go through is very horrific.

I wouldn't donate to the RSPCA anyway they've gone beyond a charity that protects animals and now like to think of themselves as the police of the animal world so much so the actual police aren't interested in anything that involves animals and will blankly tell you to contact the RSPCA

All ducks got removed, no ducks left at the farm.

MAKE DONATIONS DIRECT TO RESCUES NOT THE RSPCA
TO DONATE TO THIS RESCUE GO TO http://www.retreatanimalrescue.org.uk/Donations.html

The requirements for "Free Range" are that the animal HAS ACCESS to the outside 24/7 and is ALLOWED to carry out it's normal behaviours & activites... So far so good.
The REALITY IS - Yes, these requirements are fulfilled BUT
Cramming in so many animals into a barn/shed so that they stand on top of each other, not sufficient perches for ALL hens/chickens to use, NO daylight, NO room to stretch their wings (this isn't battery cages...) Inadequate access to water for preening/grooming for ducks, weakened/weak birds are trampled underfoot, sick birds left to deteriorate...
BUT they DO HAVE ACCESS to outside but are unaware of the access ,are unable to access this if not on the periphery of the flocks.. The access routes are usually very small openings, dotted along the walls...
THEY DON'T HAVE A SNOWBALLS CHANCE IN HELL OF EXPERIENCING OUTSIDE!!! ...and when they become SICK how long before the workers pick up on this with THOUSANDS & THOUSANDS OF BIRDS CRAMMED TOGETHER??
WELCOME to the world of "Free Range" !!!

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AND THIS IS WHERE MILK COMES FROM

Animals exist for their own reasons, they are not the property of humans to do with as we please. The dairy industry wants you to believe that cows naturally make milk for human consumption, but the reality is that they make milk to feed THEIR babies.

Their babies are torn from them just days after birth so that humans can have their milk. Cows and their calves form strong bonds just like us and this separation causes intense distress that no mother should have to endure. Their babies are either slaughtered or forced into the same cruel cycle of constant pregnancies and loss of their babies.

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And cows exist as they are today from generations of breeding by humans.

Lets be honest here, Man has a track record of destroying things he doesn't need. Most animals would be extinct if Man hadn't found a use for them, be it eating them or getting them to work for him.

You only have to look at Africa, Asia and South America at the moment, man is expanding into the wilderness and anything that objects to being pushed out or eats man's 'useful' animals are destroyed.

ChrisUK said:

And cows exist as they are today from generations of breeding by humans.

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talking of "generations" happy b-day old boy

These ducks are needing cash they are going to take some caring for they are not water proof and have no defence instinct so cant yet be left to roam free on their own.

you can donate and show how kind the members of fiat forum are in a little message https://www.justgiving.com/trar/Donate/

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talking of "generations" happy b-day old boy

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Thanks very much. Yes I feel old haha.

still no donations from FF members to the rescue? this forum used to be full of animal lovers

We're in a recession. I pay enough for deductions I don't want already.

The RSPCA have a euthanasia policy on animals that they cannot rehome.

Yet they are also very picky who can have an animal and refuse them to those that have had (and cared for) animals all their life.

I wont donate to them.

dave said:

still no donations from FF members to the rescue? this forum used to be full of animal lovers

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ive just put a tenner in the pot mate,

Date
08/08/2014 17:48:33 (GMT)

Charity name
The Retreat Animal Rescue

Charity registration number
1105654

Donation amount
£10.00

oldhammer said:

ive just put a tenner in the pot mate,

Date
08/08/2014 17:48:33 (GMT)

Charity name
The Retreat Animal Rescue

Charity registration number
1105654

Donation amount
£10.00

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thank you very much :worship: