A shortage of hay in Alberta is putting livestock at risk of neglect this winter, animal welfare advocates say.
After record-breaking heat stunted the Prairie harvest last fall, Alberta livestock owners have been scrambling over the limited supply of hay.
As demand rises and prices surge, the Alberta SPCA is now fielding more complaints about starving livestock.
“The hay situation is at crisis levels,” said Bev Wilson, founder of 5 Freedoms Ranch Rescue and Rehabilitation Society, an equine rescue in Strathcona County.
“I don’t know how we are going to make it.”
Wilson said her animals will not go hungry, but with
