Rescue Stories

A campus prank: Four chickens discovered in the bathroom stall of a frat house.

Cows are a common, peaceful sight along country roads but few people consider the path after pasture.

Tilly and Nilly—two young Cornish Cross chicks who likely survived the same chicken farm—are just about as similar as their rhyming names.

These are some of our most notable rescues in 2020.

Avril cheated death three times—first evading potential slaughter, then surviving a wildfire, and lastly overcoming a life-threatening leg injury.

Bitsy was just a piglet when several siblings purchased her and a group of pigs to raise for meat. For reasons unknown, though, her guardian changed his mind. Maybe she won him over. Regardless, she was never slaughtered.

A farmer’s surprising connection with one lamb ended up saving the young sheep—and four others—from slaughter.

On July 20, 2020, a massive fire razed a New Jersey egg farm—killing almost 300,000 trapped hens.

Before coming to Farm Sanctuary, Freddie and Lenny led parallel lives. The Jersey and Ayrshire calves were born around the same time—each at separate dairy farms in New York State.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and tasked with the “depopulation” of his hens, one California egg farmer decided to free them instead.