Dear Freinds,

This has been both our busiest year and our most tragic year, with the loss of some of our beloved animals after battles with their long term illnesses. We have seen a record number of new rescues coming into Woodfield, with every one in need of veterinary attention.

This spring we took in a large number of colts, all needing to be castrated to prevent indiscriminate breeding. This is at a cost of £200 per colt. Sadly if the Colt is found to be a rig, he has to go in for surgery, at the clinic at a cost of over £700. We have had a couple of colts needing this expensive surgery already this year. It is also a requirement that each of the rescued horses has a passport and microchip by law, at a cost of £25 each , and as you can imagine this number adds up.

We also took in a record number of mares and foals this year with lots requiring vetinarary attention.

We never turn away a disabled lamb or sheep , this year we had the highest number of disabled lambs ever, including our much loved Boysie who had been attacked by Crows. When the farmer who brought him in said he had been attacked, just as he was born and had both eyes pecked out. We called out our Vet immediately and after examining him closely he agreed not only both eyes had been removed but also over half of his tongue was missing too due to the attack.

Our vet advised us to let him be put to sleep, but by now Boysie was enjoying his life with us drinking his milk , a lot slower than the other lambs but thoroughly enjoying it. So we thought lets just see how it goes. just over a month later a scab fell off one of Boysies eyes, and to our delight and amazement, there inside was a twinkling little eye! everyone was screaming and running round shouting Boysie can see! Boysie can see!

I have a fantastic video of that day Boysie could see for the first time in his life, he was leaping in the air nonstop round the garden! He is now a big solid lamb finding no trouble eating every thing in his path and he loves every thing we give him. He really is the very happiest of lambs!

We are only able to continue to do this fantastic work with your help. Which is why your donations are so important to us, every penny you donate goes to helping the animals in our care, as well as enabling us to help future animals that come in.

This year we also had to ask our vet to castrate 20 ram lambs , this was exremley expensive. With the new rescues we've had in, along with the cost of fighting hard to keep those poorly animals alive and well, we've seen our highest vet bills since we opened.

In order to continue providing this top quality care, with love and kindness from our lovely vet, we must clear these costs and settle up our outstanding bills. Providing the highest level of care to the rescued animals at Woodfield is of the utmost importance to us, but this year has been incredibly costly with vet bills soaring.

Our visitors are often amazed at our large amount of healthy ponies and horses , some well into their late 30s and several in their late 40s!!

We can only accomplish this through the kindness and compassion of you ,our wonderful supporters. We consider our supporters and volunteers such an important part of the partnership with the team at Woodfield.

Thank you all so very much for your ongoing support, we could not do any of this with out you.

Love, Team Woodfield.