Animal Instincts Australia

21/01/2026

✨ NOW AVAILABLE | Photo Shoot Location Hire ✨

📸 Did you know our stunning rural property just outside Goombungee (40 mins from Toowoomba) is now available for photo shoots? 🐴🌾

If you’re chasing golden sunsets, misty sunrises, wide paddocks, rustic sheds, dams, windmill backdrops, old farm machinery, and real country atmosphere — this place delivers.

Perfect for:
• Weddings & engagements
• Formals
• Maternity & newborn
• Family & lifestyle shoots
• Branding & editorial sessions

🐎 Animals available by arrangement
Horses, cattle, dogs, goats, sheep, pigs, ducks, chickens — all handled ethically and supervised by our experienced team.
(Animals are an add-on due to handling, welfare, and prep requirements.)

💰Pricing
• Property hire: $150 per hour, discounts for 3+ hours
• Animals: from $50–$100 per animal/group
• Grooming/prep (if required): additional fee

📍 Location: Goombungee, QLD
🕰️ Flexible booking times (golden hour encouraged!)
👢 Safety & animal welfare always come first

This is a working rural property, not a styled set — what you get is authentic country, changing light, and real textures you can’t fake.

✨ Animal safety, welfare, and suitability are always our priority. All animals are handled and supervised by experienced staff. ✨

This is offered through Animal Instincts Australia, our social enterprise — and every booking helps support the work we do with animals, people, and community.

📍 Goombungee, QLD
📩 Message us to book or request a quote, or email hayley@animalinstinctsaustralia.com

Beautiful photos. Ethical animal handling. Real country atmosphere.

Photo credits in this post:
Amy Philp Photography
https://www.instagram.com/amyphilpphotography/?hl=en
Matt Edwards Photography

Living Abled

20/01/2026

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After forming her own self-funded charity six years ago, Hayley Chambers is giving at-risk teens a new purpose. Read more about her story below👇👇
https://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/9157298/

20/01/2026

📣 Thank you, Queensland Country Life!

We’re so grateful to QCL for shining a light on the work we do and for highlighting Izzy’s story — a beautiful example of the real change that’s possible when young people are given connection, purpose, and hands-on opportunities.

At Outback Instincts , we’re passionate about working with at-risk and disengaged youth because we see it — day in, day out. We see the transformation that happens when a young person who’s been shut out of the classroom finds worth in the paddock. We see confidence grow where there was once doubt. We hear the laughter that replaces frustration. We watch kids learn responsibility, teamwork, resilience, and skill — not because they’re told to, but because they feel it in their bones through real work with animals and in community.

Stories like Izzy’s remind us why we do this: not for credit or accolades, but for the young lives changed, the futures rewritten, and the community strengthened.
To everyone who’s read, shared, supported, donated, or believed in these kids — thank you. Let’s keep this momentum going. 🙌

🐾 Read the full story here: www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/9157298/queensland-charity-transforms-at-risk-youth-with-farming

A charity program is helping at-risk teens find a new purpose through agricultural work. Read more about their story below👇👇
https://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/9157298/

19/01/2026

🙏 Thank You, WIN News Toowoomba for sharing our Outback Instincts charity arm programs — and to everyone watching, reading, sharing and caring.

We are overwhelmed by the support — thank you for giving our young people a moment in the spotlight they deserve. What we do here at Outback Instincts isn’t flashy, it’s just real, boots-on-the-ground work with kids who have been written off too many times.
Right now, we have 50 young people on our waitlist — waiting for a chance to be part of something meaningful. They don’t want handouts, they want purpose. They want a place to belong. They want to learn, to grow, to have hands in the earth and eyes on a future that doesn’t revolve around trouble or struggle.

We have no government funding — not yet. We’ve applied for grants, we’re writing submissions, we’re chasing every opportunity we can find to keep programs running and expand them. But right now, funding is the difference between a kid doing nothing and a kid building something real.
If you saw this WIN News story, you saw the change in these young faces. You saw confidence grow. You saw grit emerge. You saw community transform community.

💛 We need help.
Whether you can donate, share this post, tell someone who can help, or partner with us — it all matters. If you believe in giving young people a chance, a purpose, a team, a future… please join us.

This isn’t charity — it’s investment in human potential.

👇 Click, share, donate, get involved — let’s fill these programs with the 50 kids waiting to show you what they can do.

https://www.givenow.com.au/outbackinstinctsyouthprograms

14/01/2026

07/01/2026

Some tough news from the farm today 💔

Our beautiful Tom cat is back at the vet once again with a urinary blockage/UTI and is currently being cared for by the team at Wilsonton Vet Clinic. After finally getting a two-week breather and trying to get back on our feet with invoicing and catch-ups, this couldn’t have come at a worse time.

Poor Tom is a very special boy, and frustratingly the vets can’t pinpoint why this has reoccurred — nothing has changed in his routine, diet or environment. Sometimes it really does feel like one thing after another.

Vet care like this adds up quickly, and right now any support at all would mean the world to us. If you’re able to help, you can do so in either of the following ways:

🐾 Donate directly to Wilsonton Vet Clinic (for Tom’s care)
🐾 Donate via our GoFundMe to help cover his treatment and ongoing costs

🔗 GoFundMe link: https://gofund.me/394066368

If donating isn’t possible, sharing this post or keeping Tom in your thoughts truly helps too. We’re really hoping he pulls through this round 💛

Thank you, as always, for the love and support — it never goes unnoticed.

05/01/2026

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04/01/2026

03/01/2026

💛 Rehoming Our Beloved Guinea Pig Boys – EOIs Welcome 💛

This one is bittersweet for us to share.

Due to rising costs, changing staff schedules, and a continued shift toward our farm-based programs, we’ve made the difficult decision to rehome our three male guinea pigs. As much as we adore them, we simply can’t give these little guys the time and attention they truly deserve.

Meet Archie, Patches, and Chatty 🐹
They are:
~ Very well handled and friendly
~ Used to people and calm interactions
~ Big fans of fresh fruit and veggies

At this stage, the boys are housed in separate cages. Once our female guinea pigs arrived, the boys began to fight, so they’ve been kept apart for everyone’s safety. That said, they happily chat to each other through their cages and are very social little souls. They may be suitable to introduce to a young or baby male guinea pig if someone is looking to add a companion, with proper introductions.

We’re happy for their cages, bottles and supplies to go with them, and in place of a sale price we’d accept whatever donation you’re able to afford to our charity arm (tax deductible).

These boys mean a lot to us, so please note:
~ Their new home is not negotiable — the right fit matters most
~ This is EOIs only at this stage
~ We are in no rush and will take the time needed to find the right home

They would be well suited to a caring family, or potentially as therapy guinea pigs in the right environment.

If you think you might be the right home for Archie, Patches and Chatty, please send us a message or email hayley@animalinstinctsaustralia.com with a bit about yourself and the setup you can offer.

We’ll miss these little guys dearly, but we know the right next chapter is out there for them 💛🐹