Minton Farm Native Animal Rescue Centre - Newsletter February 2014

Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre - Newsletters

Minton Farm Newsletter: February 2014
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!

Happy 2014 to all our Supporters!
We had a nice break and are now full steam ahead due to the hot weather bringing in a myriad of rescues.

FUND RAISING FOR MINTON FARM IN 2014
Our major fund raising activities this year are:

The Community Lottery sales are about to hit the road and I hope you are able to buy a ticket @$2 or a book of 10 @ $20 from Minton Farm. All of the money raised by these tickets is given to Minton Farm to continue the worthwhile community service.
This year we will be selling the Channel 9 Telethon Take 9 Movie Cards @ $20 for 9 movies*, from April
and then the Telethon Home tickets mid-year
We will hold the Annual Garage Sale around October so if you want to donate any goods for that throughout the year, we can store them in our fund raising shed, which will be concreted by then hopefully!

Please let me know if you can help us out? Ph. 0422 938 439

Feb 2014 newsletter under construction, but some of the stories are already to read...

Mandy the koala being hand fed by Bev

planting gums and seeds

Meet Mandy the tiny little Koala

We had a tiny little koala arrive that was found sitting alone in a garage, covered in prickles and dog saliva with hair pulls where the dogs’ tooth came out of it.

She weighed 400grams, and we called her Mandy. After rehydrating her she took formula in a syringe with a teat on it for a couple of weeks but wouldn’t touch gum leaf.

One day she would not settle and was calling and agitated even after her feed. I offered her some gum leaf and she grabbed it with her hand and ripped at it with her teeth, so eager to eat. She had obviously rehydrated enough to begin eating again, and she hasn’t looked back, gaining 100grams in one week…dear little girl!

She has started drinking from a bottle and taking larger volumes, is active, eager and eating leaf, so things are looking good for her.

Donate today and help save little 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!

Kangaroo Saved by Caring Rescuer

A young lady stood at the front gate and said “Will you take a joey?” She produced a tiny, traumatised western grey joey and told us the horror story of what had happened.

A group of young men took their motor bikes out for some fun to chase down and kill kangaroos!!!

They got the joey from the dead mother’s pouch and stuffed it into an esky where they left it all day whilst they finished their fun, then phoned the girl to ask “Do you want a joey?”.

She collected it and brought it straight here.

Rfour has recovered exceptionally well and is feeding beautifully and devouring weetbix, Muesli and chaff, whilst luxuriously laying on doonas kindly donated by Sheridans!

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.

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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Thank you Mr Hooker, and everyone who Donated Food

ducklings saved

Garage Sale
Yes!! Once again in 2014 we will be opening our container and double shed for you to rummage through the drawers for a bargain!! Mark your diaries for a Saturday in October 2014, 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

Tortsie shell repair

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!

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 9,000 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.