New home plan for Doonies Farm animals

ANIMALS from a popular Aberdeen farm might find a new home at a nearby site.

Some of the newborns at Doonies Farm may not be sold at market if a plan to move them to Lochinch Farm goes ahead.

Nigg Community Council wrote to the council to suggest moving the animals to the public farm near Loirston Loch.

Chairman Alan Strachan said the farm on Redmoss Road, Nigg, would be ideal to rehouse the 300 animals.

They are due to be sold when Doonies closes because of budget cuts.

He said: “Doonies Farm is popular with young and old. It would seem to make sense to move the animals to Lochinch Farm which has room for them. It is not as far out as Doonies Farm.”

A council spokesman said they were looking at a range of sites as well as auctions and markets for the animals, which include horses, sheep, ducks, hens and pigs.

But May Whitehead, 49, is campaigning to keep the farm where it is.

The mum of Stuart, 15, Jennifer, 13, and Alison, 11, who stays at Cove Bay, said: “I think Doonies Farm should be saved.

“Maybe if it came to the very last straw it would be better to keep them in the community but I don’t want to consider the possibility of anything else.”

ktaylor@ajl.co.uk