When the staff of a Future Farmers of America (FFA) farm in Santa Clara, California, came to work one morning this fall, they found two sheep awaiting them.

Lucky Lady didn’t earn her name from good fortune at a craps table. Instead, she came by the moniker the hard way. She cheated death in early June 2007, escaping from an auction house and roaming the streets of the South Bronx for hours.

For egg-laying hens in commercial production, even those on “free-range” farms, life ends between the ages of one and two years.

LAPD officers were performing a narcotics bust when they discovered 68 hens teeming with parasites and suffering from untreated wounds.

Sanctuaries — a hip, new summer destination!

On February 24, Farm Sanctuary, Animal Place, and Harvest Home joined together to rescue hens at a factory farm in Modesto, CA, where 50,000 hens used for egg production had been abandoned and left to starve for two weeks.

The tag in his ear read, “MEAT.” Inserted before he was shipped from Pennsylvania into New York, it allowed the little goat to cross state lines without undergoing the usual tests.

All of the baby turkeys were underweight and partially bald. Several were afflicted with enlarged joints and curled toes — signs of malnourishment.

Tinsel and Holly never had a chance. They were born to cows used in the dairy industry, which meant that within a few days, perhaps even just hours, the newborns were ripped from the loving care of their mothers.