Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre - Newsletters

Minton Farm Newsletter: November 2013
Our aim is to assist the conservation of the natural diversity of life on Earth.
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Thanks from Bev!

Hello Dear Friends and Supporters!

Thank you for your wonderful support throughout the year, 
which has been invaluable to us.   
We are organizing a few events before Christmas and 
we would like you to be involved in them!

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Sausages Sizzle at Bunnings 
COME ALONG TO OUR SAUSAGE SIZZLE AT BUNNINGS NOARLUNGA 
Saturday 12th December 2013,     from 10am to 4pm 
Help cook sausages and raise money for the Native Animal Rescue Centre's work. 
Buy a snag to help our wildlife or help to cook, serve, or take money on the day! 
We need your help, you are welcome to join the crew. 
Please let me know if you can help us out? Ph. 0422938439

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Molly the baby Koala

planting gums and seeds

Molly the baby Koala

We have had a myriad of rescues from tortoises, lizards and echidnas to kangaroos, possums, tawny frogmouths and koalas over the past months. 

Weighing in at just 670 grams, little Molly koala’s mother was mauled and killed by dogs as the tiny baby clung to her back. She had dog saliva and blood on her back but no injuries! 

She cried throughout the night so I fed her at 2am and 6am to settle her. By lunchtime she fed well, had a huge wee and started to eat gum leaves!!! What a little battler? 

She was doing very well on 4 hourly feeds 24/7, sometimes adding up to 8 times a day to give her strength and get her gaining weight. 

The newly planted gums we have planted for koala food have been handy already and very successful.

Donate today and help rescue Koalas!
Please Click on the Donate button, thanks

Pouches Protect Possums

The donated pouches from Ivy, that are posted down from Mt Barker by her, have been such a comfort to the baby possums and to Molly that she stopped crying for her Mum, even without her teddy. She was quite relaxed, warm and comfortable in them, as were the 9 possums in the hospital!  Thanks Ivy!

Kookaburra Laughs Again

We had a male kookaburra for a couple of weeks after he was hit by a car and had concussion and spinal injury.  He began to eat well after a week but still couldn't fly. 

He eventually was flying strongly so I took him home to the exact address that he was found because they are intensely territorial, and will be killed in another kookaburras’ territory. 

I released him toward some gum trees on the property and he flew off well and sat happily in a gum. 

As I walked away I could hear him laughing and talking to another kookaburra so I had to go back and have a look. There he was all puffed, up wing to wing cuddled up to his lady wife on the branch. She had been waiting for him all that time. 

I tried to record their singing and cuddles but they flew off into the bush, so happy to have each other again. I smiled for at least an hour! Another successful rescue!

 

Seeds of Thanks
Thank you to Coromandel Natives for the koala gums and to B.T.Financial for planting 250 seedlings in the koala feed paddock, and CVA for planting the under storey plants and weeding them all.

Channel 9 Telethon: Take 9 Movie Card 

We are participating in the Take9 Movie Card offer to raise funds for our rescue centre. 
Please buy these money saving cards for only $19 each!    Buy 2 or 3 cards for you and your friends or family!
You will save over $200 and get to see 9 great movies for only $9 a movie!!!   
Fantastic isn't it? 
Money raised from purchasing a Take 9 Movie Card will assist Minton Farm to purchase much needed equipment for our Intensive Care Unit.
Click Here to get yours before they all run out!

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Special Thanks

Thank you to:

SAVEM Inc for their fantastic support, 

Mick Shaw for website management, 

Dennis Round for accounting work. 

Special thanks to Mark Burns from L J Hooker Blackwood for kindly printing the Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre Newsletter. Mark is to be congratulated for his empathy and compassion towards the work and the improvement of our environmental biodiversity. 

Andy Scott for compiling our printed Newsletters so professionally.

This information is distributed throughout the community to educate members and to assist our native wildlife. It is an invaluable tool and very much needed. 

Thank you Mark and Andy, from Bev Langley and all of the rescued wildlife of Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre.

Help rehabilitate Echidnas? 
Please click the Donate button

Lucky Echidna

I received a very weak echidna from a Vet, which had been run over at the MacDonald's corner on Cross Road x Goodwood road intersection! X-rays showed no injury or broken bones. 

He progressed to a round tank and each day became stronger and more active until he could bury himself in the leaf mulch and behave normally. 

I took him back to the gully above Carrick Hill and released him into a cool lush gully full of decomposing wood so he could find a good food source. He happily wandered off and bunkered down near a protective rock to wait for dusk to continue his life's journey, none the worse for the experience!

Help Save an Injured Animal Today

Injured Animals need your help to survive!  Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre is a not for profit animal welfare organisation that relies on donations, sponsorship and volunteers to provide rescued and injured animals with food, medical treatment and shelter.  Without help from caring and kind people like you, it's extremely difficult to provide the level fo care and support that many of these injured animals need to survive.

You can help Save an Injured Animal today by Donating generously or Sponsoring a Native Animal here. 
Click and help save an Injured Native Animal today!

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Food Appeal News

Sincere thanks to all who Donated Seeds and Cereals for last years Minton Farm Food Appeal. The produce is invaluable with a high volume of rescued Native Animals needing housing here at the moment. 

The Food Appeal IS ON AGAIN SOON thanks to the support of Mark Burns from LJ Hooker Blackwood. Mark is the instigator of the Minton Farm Food Appeal and deserves your support. Should you be considering buying/selling your home I can recommend his integrity. Thanks everyone for your involvement and support.

Thank you Mr Hooker, and everyone who Donated Food

ducklings saved

Garage Sale
Yes!! Once again we will be opening our container and double shed for you to rummage through the drawers for a bargain!! Mark your diaries for Saturday 23rd November, 9am to 4pm. Come and join the fun and help a great cause at the same time. Donations of goods welcomed prior to and on the day. (No televisions please).

Tawny Frog Mouth owl rescued

What dream do you aspire to? 
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Bet 5 tickets for only $40, as well as being entered into a $5,000 book buyers’ prize. Click Here to Get your Tickets Now!
Don’t miss out! Buy before the 10th of November 2013.

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Tortsie shell repair

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Energy Efficient Freezer Needed

We currently use inefficient and expensive to run freezers to store food for our animals. 

We’re calling out for a donation of an energy efficient tucker box sized freezer to replace our clunkers. 

Collection can be arranged, 
Call us on 0422 938 439 if you can help.

Volunteers Needed

We are needing:
-  Women for our Thursday program, and 
-  Men for our Tuesday program. 

Please contact me, or visit our Volunteer page for more information. 

Come and have a go! 
You'll be rewarded with love from lots of native animals and our volunteer team!   

We work in a team of 10 on both days from 10am to 2pm. There is much laughter, and coffee drinking in amongst a very productive, satisfying day. 

Just give Bev a call on 0422 938 439 to book in, also visit our Volunteer page for more information. 

Feed an Animal at Minton Farm

You can help feed the animals at Minton  Farm by Donating Food for the Animals.

Foods we always accept include:  
- nectar mix (Wombaroo, Harvest etc), 
- dry dog food,
- muesli,
- budgie seed,
- sunflower seed,
- breakfast cereals, inc. weetbix & rolled oats,
- apples,
- carrots,
- celery,
- corn,
- grapes, 
- meal worms.  

These items are essential for our rescued Birds, Bettongs, Kangaroos, Possums, Gliders, Parrots, Lorikeets, Honey Eaters and Wombats and can be dropped off at Minton Farm during daylight hours.  Thanks in advance!

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Koala Care Corner

Needed Every Day:
Gum Leaf Shoots

To feed the Koalas we are rehabilitating we are constantly looking for fresh Gum Leaf supplies.

Every day Koalas need freshly picked, juicy green leaf shoots from the top ends of gum branches. Kangaroos and Possums also use these gum tree branches.

Its quality, not quantity that we need.  Native Animals waste any leaf that’s too dry or mature, which also makes more work on the farm.

Gum Species that are suitable include:
- Manna Gum,
- River Red Gum, 
- Pink Gum, 
- SA Blue Gum, 
- Brown Stringybark, 
- Cup Gum, 
- Swamp Gum,
- Messmate Stringybark, 
- Tasmanian Blue gum, 
- Moort, 
- Candle Bark, 
- Grey Ironbark, 
- Woolybutt, and
- Yellow and White Stringybark

Gum branches can be delivered to us by you or call us to find out if we can collect from you, thanks!

Bedding, Baskets and Bears Needed for Koala Care!

We always need large Toy Teddies and Toy Bunnies for the Koala Joeys to cling to, in various sizes from approx. 20cms up to approx. 50cms. 

Cotton bunny Rugs and baby Sleeping Bags are excellent for Koala joeys to sleep in.  If you don’t need yours any more, donate to us, they will be put to good use! 

Koala Joeys are kept in Cane Baskets with a handle over the top so that it can be hung in a tree with their teddy for security, whilst they learn to navigate branches and munch on leaves.

We look forward to receiving donations from you, as they are extremely useful and really help us keep running costs down.

If you have any thing that you would like to donate for Koala Rehabilitation, we would be deeply grateful.

Donations and Sponsorship Gratefully Accepted

Donations of a energy efficient freezer, animal foods, gum tree branchs, teddy bears, large stuffed toys, cane baskets, and bedding materials
are gratefully accepted at:
  Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre
  455 Cherry Gardens  Road
  Cherry Gardens SA  5157

If the front gate is closed when you deliver them, you can put your donations into the cages on the road in front of Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre. 

Donations Always Welcome!

If you don't have any gum trees, teddy bears, bedding or baskets, 
but Still Want to Donate, 


you can make a Cash Donations or Sponsor a Native Animal.  

Click here to find out how 
You Can Help Today!
Sponsor an Animal 
for as little as $35 annually!

Thank you so very much for your interest and support for the 8,600 creatures rescued at the Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre. 
Cheers, Bev. XX

Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre...

... is a not for profit, native animal rescue centre in Cherry Gardens, South Australia. The Aim of the centre is to rescue, rehabilitate and release injured and orphaned native animals and birds, as a free community service. It is operated by the involvement of volunteers who assist with the maintenance of the Centre and Animal Rescue Hospital, and with caring for the animals. There is no formal funding for the work, which has rescued over 8,600 creatures in the on-site Intensive Care Unit, with equally as many off-site through rescue advice throughout Australasia and beyond via our website, email and phone. 
 
There are 300 animals housed within 6 acres of fox and cat proofed fencing, in species specific enclosures. Species assisted include kangaroos, possums, wombats, koalas, emu, eagles, kookaburras, tawny frogmouths, wombats and a myriad of parrots and lorikeets. In addition to this, there are the farm animals ranging from ducks, geese and peacocks through to donkey, ponies, pigs and deer.