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nterested 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 weeks ago they d set up a hose with the nozzle set on mist and aimed at the mud puddle in the pig yard as a cooling station for the pigs it was very popular as you might imagine cooling station when i walked by on saturday i was happy to see that harley was one of the pigs in the cooling station he s one of the younger pigs and definitely low in the pecking order so if another pig had wanted his spot he d have moved harley dave was walking by too and as i stopped to take pictures of harley and the other pigs he aimed the spray right at harley s head it was amazing harley whose ears usually are covering his eyes put his ears back and just leaned into the spray with a look of bliss harley bliss as we were picking up in the pig yard some people arrived with a new goose resident duchess she followed them as they came to visit in the pig yard but she seemed a bit confused as to where she actually wanted to be after she came rushing in the pig yard through the gate she then tried to get out again through the fence she was getting agitated so i picked her up and carried her across the pig yard toward the duck pond duchess on the duck pond at psas terry held the gate for me and we brought duchess down to the pond and stayed with her while she got in and swam around a bit as she cooled down and calmed down roxanne the youngest pig joined us having escaped out the gate we d opened to bring duchess through i got some apples from the barn and tried to bribe her back through but she wasn t too interested forget cooling stations and creeks here was a pond she wandered around the perimeter a bit before walking in she was so cute sticking her whole head in the water at times blowing bubbles and rooting on the bottom of the pond talk about bliss roxanne in the duck pond at psas i took some video and was convinced to put the entire almost 8 minutes on vimeo roxanne in the duck pond a reporter showed up while we were doing the cow pies he had contacted terry to set up an interview so he could do an article on the animals and the heat roxanne had come back to the pig yard by then so he missed seeing that cuteness in person but dave and terry had me show him some of the pictures i took of her in there he was interested in using a pic and linking to the video for his article so i sent him a few that evening he ended up using the one of harley blissing out with the spray of water it ran online in the washington post on sunday and in the print version on monday so out of the blue i got a picture published in the paper the hot days in summer are when the animals are the most lethargic and i include humans we definitely move slower on these hot days so they re often pretty dry in terms of photo ops it just happened that we d had a couple super cute photo ops that day we couldn t have done better if we d planned and schemed to get photo ops for the article our favorite quote from the article as i watched terry round up tilly the turkey and deposit her feet into the bath it occurred to me that terry was one of those people who made it impossible to measure yourself against you can never be so good terry is probably embarrassed that we keep quoting that one sentence but it s the truth for both terry and dave so we ll keep quoting it roxanne poplar spring harley poplar spring animal sanctuary roxanne tilly lillian and lance 3 comments posted by deb on may 18 2012 about a month ago two chicks came to poplar spring from completely different situations lillian the little red hen was rescued from a hatching project lance the little white rooster from a reptile show they re both cute as anything and they re growing fast lillian was 3 weeks when she came to the sanctuary so last weekend she was 6 weeks old and lance is 2 weeks younger than she is she s already almost fully feathered they re still babies though peeping away they spend their nights in the infirmary and when i went to bring them outside they were perched on top of their enclosure guess they can fly a bit already it was so much fun last week to just sit and watch them explore their world lance decided to take a dust bath except he was in the grass we ll call it practice when a plane flew overhead the sanctuary is on the flight path to dulles lillian watched it perhaps wondering if it was some kind of bird they even gave an alarm call after following a bee around and then realizing that it wasn t a good thing for them to be interested in i was taking a video at the time but i can t really pick out the alarm call even when i go back and listen very carefully dave is the one who heard it he s a lot better at understanding their different calls than i am see if you can hear it when i posted this on my fb page mary commented it s so great t...
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