Save Our Shropshires…
Your letters of support will help us stop CFIA’s slaughter of these sheep. If you are also able to help us defray legals costs and keep the farm going as we push through this challenging time, please use the button below to make aPayPal donation. Our lawyer Karen Selick of the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) is pro-bono but any legal and court costs are not. If you would prefer to donate to the CCF for all the great work they do, they are a registered charity, independent and non-partisan. They act as a voice for freedom in Canada’s courtrooms and law schools. They depend on the generous and voluntary contributions of hundreds of Canadians who value their constitutional freedoms. They issue official tax receipts for donations received, and are also registered as a 501(c)(3) public charity with the IRS. We (the farm) are not a registered charity and any gifts will go directly to running the farm.
Preserve Canada’s heritage Shropshire sheep and ensure the continuation of this breed. Your donation will help maintain healthy sheep and ensuring a successful lambing season so their population increases instead of become extinct.
We have ten here at present…six ewes ready to lamb, and are hopeful we may overturn the Order of Destruction and the Farmers’ Peace Corp will return the rest of our flock to us safely.
AVERAGE COST to feed and maintain a breeding sheep for one year: $185.
Alfalfa timothy large round hay bale: $30
Straw bale for bedding: $30
40K bag of grain: $18
Using natural management systems (no excess grain feeding as in commercial lamb production, no excessive de-worming, no artificial synchronization of estrus cycles, sheep outdoors on pasture, access to outdoors year round) on a small scale farming homestead it takes an average of $185. per year just to feed one sheep.
Why do you need donations?
The CFIA placed a quarantine on our small farm over two years ago and we are facing financial hardship. No sheep have been sold in that time period, and CFIA forced us to feed and maintain every sheep born, so we were carrying, feeding and overwintering three ties out normal number, with no sheep income to offset costs.
Contact Wholearth Heritage Shropshires if you would like to visit the farm.
We can also accept donations by Interac E-Transfer to the email address above or by cheque. Thank-you for your support!
