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h after the event was the reverse of the day before folding up the chairs and tables hauling the tables to the trailer on the truck and then to the barn and into the little storage area putting the chairs into their boxes and loading them onto the truck trailer and then there was the eating of leftover food and the half sheet of cake that gets reserved for the volunteers terry knows how to motivate vegans i donated a few things to the silent auction some canvases but i d also had some glass photo cutting boards made and some photo iphone covers and those seemed to be popular as well i d ordered them as an experiment curious what the quality would be like good enough i guess a friend has donated her expired canvas on demand groupons to me and i ll be using those to print more canvases to be used in future fundraisers for the sanctuary there are rumors that we might do another silent auction at the thanksgiving with the turkeys event but otherwise they ll be in the silent auction at next year s open house thanks ida the calendars were apparently a pretty big hit also this is the first time in several years that i ve had them ready in time for the open house and it sounds like that was a good thing october seems early for people to be thinking of the next year s calendar but maybe it ends up being the right time there is currently a really nice coupon on lulu for ordering them online 30 off with coupon code memento no quotes but must be all caps that coupon is good through october 15 2012 there will be other coupons later too but 30 is generally the best you can get and i don t know if i could predict whether there will be another 30 off coupon but if you miss the october 15th deadline for this coupon you can always check lulu s current specials page to see what coupon is active psas 2013 calendar cover there are two calendars this year the regular one with the stories to go with each resident and new this year is the chickendales calendar which has the names of each rooster but not the stories chickendales 2013 cover you can see the full previews of each calendar on their lulu page poplar spring harrison horatio open house poplar spring animal sanctuary new arrivals pygmy goats and isaac the piglet 1 comment posted by deb on september 15 2012 jake helping with the calendar edits between travels and working on the calendars for the sanctuary i ve neglected the blog the calendars are now done and a batch has been ordered to get here in time for the open house on october 7 it always feels good to get the calendar done it s a much bigger project than it seems like it would be i ll post a link to where they can be bought online soon almost two weeks ago two new goats arrived at the sanctuary they are pygmys which means they are very small even smaller than you d imagine even knowing ahead of time that they were tiny i was still surprised when i saw them napoleon looking at the camera and sebastian napoleon is full grown and about the height of a water bucket he is wary of people but i think he ll come around pretty quickly he seemed more interested but wary than freaked out when we peeked into their quarrantine stall last saturday and today he was letting terry touch him to a limited degree sebastian is only 6 months old and he seems to be used to being held already he certainly didn t mind all the chin scratches he was getting they came from a hoarding case where the man who had them seemed to be collecting animals they were malnourished and riddled with internal and external parasites living in a room with a strange group of animals cats dogs snakes birds and even a kinkajou i hadn t even heard of a kinkajou until terry told the story they are a mammal from australia the other recent arrivals from a hoarding case the nine are settled in and doing really well so far they have remained a group and can generally be found with each other i haven t made much progress learning their names so far i only know a few and four of the nine are buff girls who look almost identical i know one is cindy she was the friendly one when they first arrived but now they re used to people being treat dispensers so they re all pretty friendly a few of the nine frankie is the one in the middle with the dark fluffy head carole and ziona the weekday staff in the chicken yard will be able to help me learn their names when i see them at the open house i m sure they already can tell the buff girls apart after chores were over last saturday terry dragged a fallen tree branch from the parking area to the goat yard so she could throw it over the fence on the far side of the goat yard into the forest the leaves on the fallen branch were completely dead not something she thought the goats would be interested in but from their reaction you d think that it was the best treat in the world the goats running to get the dead leaves they started rushing toward the goat yard s gate as soon as they saw terry heading there with the branch once she had the gate open she could hardly get through because they were already starting to eat the leaves taking a wild guess we can only conclude that goats love dried leaves from walnut trees the goats munching on the dead leaves if you follow poplar spring on facebook you probably saw the update this past week about the new piglet isaac he is actually a wild pig was rescued from the flood waters of hurricane isaac and was cared for by rescue ranch one of the long term psas volunteers happened to be down there helping care for animals impacted by the hurricane and he facilitated little isaac s move to psas he even cancelled his flight home so he could drive isaac all the way 18 hours when i saw his picture i thought he looked like a duroc three pigs who were rescued a couple years ago are durocs and he looks a lot like them i mentioned it to terry and she agreed she thinks that there were some domestic pigs that were released years back and isaac is one of their descendants so a wild pig but a domestic breed isaac is so cute very sweet and friendly rolls over for belly rubs already he isn t phased by much of anything he came down to the chicken yard with us and he had a great time exploring and rooting the chickens and turkeys and peacock were very very interested in him but a bit scared of him too they d gather around to watch him and then scatter with alarm calls when he turned toward them i got some video poplar spring isaac napoleon piglet poplar spring animal sanctuary pygmy goat sebastian bonds among rescued farm animals 3 comments posted by deb on august 10 2012 rocky is one of the sweetest goats he came to us when he was found abandoned wandering along a highway he has some kind of disease that will cause him to get arthritis early it s possible that he was abandoned on the side of the road for that reason rocky he loves attention and if you scratch his back in just the right spot he will wag his tail patty and paige came to us 13 months ago when they were just a few months old they were found as strays in dc here s a video i found from when they first arrived we don t know their stories prior to being found as strays but there s something about the bond that pigs form when they arrive together they tend to stick together for much of their lives last weekend the mud puddle was pretty healthy and there were several pigs lounging in it enjoying themselves patty and paige showed up and though there was plenty of room for them to have spread out they chose to lay down right next to each other patty and paige another group that came together and have stuck together are sprital and his fellow bantams lindy and mindy they were rescued after katrina found in a yard of a destroyed barn most of the animals had died in the storm but sprital and a few others were alive they were brought to poplar spring and they ve stuck together ever since sprital lindy and mindy i often wondered if it was because bantams are a miniature breed thinking that they had a sort of sub culture in the chicken society but alina the little bantam hen who loves to be held unlike the katrina survivors has never really associated with sprital s group nine new hens arrived last week from a hoarding situation the woman who had been keeping them in her backyard ended up in the hospital unable to care for them any longer they went from a small and apparently very dirty and ill kept enclosure to the sanctuary s chicken yard with all that grass and dirt and bugs and other chickens one of the nine new hens it will be interesting to see if these nine tend to stick together i m really glad that the open house is coming up in a couple months on october 7th so i ll have a chance to ask carole and ziona the weekday staff in the chicken yard about where the nine new hens end up in the social structure hopefully by then i ll know their names too that gives me about 6 saturdays of asking terry each week poplar spring lindy mindy paige patty poplar spring animal sanctuary rocky sprital 2012 farm tour at poplar spring animal sanctuary 10 comments posted by deb on august 3 2012 last weekend was the annual montgomery county farm tour which the sanctuary participates in it s an interesting event because the people who show up are often there more because the sanctuary is one of several places they are visiting as part of the farm tour as opposed to coming specifically to visit the sanctuary visitors at the goat yard this can make for some awkward questions or comments from the visitors but it is also fantastic outreach potential most of the visitors are families and kids are a great audience for planting seeds of compassion many have likely never considered veganism or the animals tilly in the foot bath for many of these visitors they have never had a chance to interact with pigs or cows or chickens or turkeys i spent the event in the chicken and turkey peacock guinea and golden pheasant yard as usual luckily this year it was less than 100 degrees so everyone was more comfortable most of the chickens who are normally happy to be held though weren t in the mood and one of the ones we can always count on alina was happy to be held but was overheating quickly i mentioned this to terry when i saw her while i was getting food on a break and she suggested we bring harrison down to the chicken yard he lives in the playhouse these days having been ousted as top rooster in the main yard and he was happily hanging out near the picnic tables up the hill from the chicken yard but terry knew he d be even happier being the poster child for chickens at the chicken yard he loves being held he loves it so much that he actually complains when you put him down harrison being held by his biggest fan it was a fantastic idea almost everyone who comes down to the chicken yard wants to hold a chicken and having someone who loves it as much as harrison takes all the stress out of it for those of us working the chicken area and makes it a lot of fun for all of us harrison also magically was not getting overheated even though he was held continuously for hours i stood outside the fence of the chicken yard and people pretty much lined up to have their chance to hold him i d do the transfer between people so that i could make sure they were comfortable holding him and that he was settled comfortably in their arms also because during transfers from person to person he d sometimes flap his wings just a natural bird thing to do if he was feeling unsteady for whatever reason he d settle right back down but it s one thing for me to get flapped in the face with his wings and knowing what was going on versus someone unused to birds the two young turkeys tilly and cosette came out with us too we brought a footpath out so they could get in and cool down it was pretty cute to see a small crowd of little kids very gently and very seriously splashing water on their chest and legs to help them cool down cosette in the foot bath one of the things i really enjoy about events is getting a chance to work with the weekday staff they have mostly staff during the week and purely volunteers on the non event weekend days on the regular weekend days all the volunteers go with terry from animal area to animal area in a group on the weekdays the staff each have their area s and so while i end up knowing more about the general population the staff know more details about the individuals in their areas of responsibility there are a lot of chickens whose names i don t know and some of them are really hard to tell apart until you spend quite a bit of time working at it so event days are a great chance for me to pick the brains of the staff carole and ziona know not only the individual names but they also know all the minute details about the current state of the ever changing social structure in the chicken yard and event days mean i spend hours in the chicken yard with them carole answering a young visitor s questions about peacocks carole was a teacher before she retired and began working at the sanctuary it is easy to see her history as teacher during these events she is really good at answering the many questions we get about 600 people came to this event and while that doesn t make it the biggest event it is probably the event that has the highest percentage of people who have never considered veganism before the exposure is everywhere the animals themselves the vegan hotdogs and vegan hamburgers sold for lunch the sign at the sink by the goat yard giving information on vegan soaps much of this exposure is the type that people can take in on their own and it will be food for thought for them but when they ask for the stories of the animals they get another dose of it you just can t tell the stories of these rescued animals without it being a lesson in why vegan left to right amber emma and horatio amber and emma were rescued from a cock fighting breeding ring in virginia poplar spring montgomery county farm tour poplar spring animal sanctuary heat wave at poplar spring 8 comments posted by deb on july 10 2012 tilly cooling off in a foot bath the record setting heat wave is old news by now and thankfully the heat has broken on the east coast the southwest is in for it now at the front end of the heat wave we had an unusual for the area derecho storm rip through june 29 causing millions of people to be without power for days a few thousand for more than a week i was one who lost power friday night tuesday afternoon and the sanctuary also lost power friday night monday afternoon luckily they have a generator so they could run the water pump essential when you are caring for 200 animals and a couple people lent them smaller generators so they could run the fans for all the animals too so the animals were pretty comfortable as comfortable as it ever is in the high 90 s and high humidity and luckily there was no damage from the derecho winds this past weekend when it hit 105 on saturday was the tail end of the heat wave a few wee...
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