A wool farmer who set up a fundraiser to help feed her sheep says she was criticised for having a coffee and croissant.<\/p>\n
Zina, 38, was shocked at the reaction after sitting down in a cafe to enjoy the baked treat, and posting a photo on Instagram with the caption “gorgeous cups of coffee”.<\/p>\n
This \u00a37 purchase did not go down well with some after she had set up a GoFundMe page with the aim of raising \u00a310,000 to feed her 100 Icelandic sheep.<\/p>\n
The mum-of-one says she couldn’t believe her eyes when she received comments calling her a scammer for “indulging” herself. <\/p>\n
Zina, like livestock owners across Wales, is struggling to feed her sheep during the extended hot spell. <\/p>\n
Usually they would graze on commons and hillsides, but the hot weather means there is little grass – with farmer James Bourne describing the situation as “devastating”.<\/p>\n
For Zina, who has a small holding in Llechwedd, Conwy, that she runs with partner Dale, 46, it is costing her \u00a350 a day to buy hay. <\/p>\n
She uses wool from her sheep to make yarn and bespoke rugs for customers all over the world.<\/p>\n
Zina launched the GoFundMe page to help tackle the costs – but received a backlash for later posting her cafe purchase on social media. <\/p>\n
She has since decided to sell half her flock to “good homes”, and has so far sold 20 sheep, a Jersey house cow and her calf. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wool farmer who set up a fundraiser to help feed her sheep says she was criticised for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}