FAR Residents
Meet some of the free-roaming animals who we have rescued at FAR
Farm Animal Rescue is home to over 80 rescued pigs, cows, goats, sheep and chickens who have been rescued from the animal agriculture or food industry. Read their stories here...
Dorothy, Rose Blanche and Sophia
Four rescued pigs Thanks to your compassion and donations, four beautiful pigs, Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia have arrived at the sanctuary ready to start a life of freedom and adventure. Aptly named after The Golden Girls, the 90’s American sitcom featuring four mature women enjoying their golden years in each others’ company, these four …
Mira
Free range hen rescue Mira 2015 As you can see from the state of her feathers, life prior to rescue from a free range egg farm was tough for Mira. And although Mira was not confined to a small cage, her ‘home’ in a barn with thousands of other chickens caused her as much, if …
Rocky
Rocky the rescued rooster Rocky the rooster arrived at sanctuary on 28th May in 2016, and no doubt got his name for his toughness after sustaining a terrible injury, and somehow still surviving. Rocky started life hatching at a backyard chicken breeder. A roosters’ life is considered worthless in the egg industry as they …
Malcolm
Malcolm – rescued lamb Look deep into his eyes and you can see so many emotions – curiosity, hope, trust, innocence. And maybe just a little bit of enduring fear …does he dare believe he is now safe? Malcolm is not meant to be here today. On the 8th April 2019, he was only 30 …
Muffin
How kindness changed the world for one chicken “That day was unusual because it was the day I’d given up. I think we all had. I stared down at the floor where I was standing uncomfortably, my breathing laboured from the stench of the urine and excrement I’d been living in for weeks, the putrid …
Heather
Heather, rescued pig Heather, was full of character and life. Arriving at FAR July 15th 2012, tiny pink baby Heather was rescued from a commercial piggery along with her three buddies, Howard, Holly and Thomas. They arrived at FAR filthy, shivering and in extremely poor condition, with discharge from their snouts caused by a respiratory …
Boston
Boston Compassion saved a tiny lamb Tiny lamb Boston spent his first few hours experiencing the world by his mum’s side. Pregnancy had been particularly hard for Boston’s mum this time around, however. Because drought was biting hard, there was very little pasture, and no real promise of rain to come. Boston’s mum was forced …
Starr
Rescued lamb Starr A tiny newborn baby lamb was found on the ground alongside a roadside, alone and freezing cold on August 12th 2019. She had been born on the truck transporting her mother and then was then discarded, perhaps only moments old. We know that slaughterhouses will not accept baby lambs, but we will …
Jethro
Rescued goat Jethro When Jethro the goat was rescued he hit the farm running. With no respect for gates and only fleeting respect for fences, he is proving a handful. His wild ways are even meaning that it is taking a while for him to be accepted by the herd. Rescued as a breeding buck …
