It was not yet Thanksgiving, but everyone at our Orland shelter had turkeys on the brain when 11 poults were dropped off at the sanctuary.

A Newborn Lamb’s Close Call: Animals bred for food production constantly walk a razor-thin line between life and death that leaves them vulnerable to the most devastating abuses.

This summer, a certain intersection of New York City’s Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx seems to have turned into a conduit for wayward farm animals in search of refuge.

Why did this chicken cross the road? No one’s quite sure, but she must have traveled far to get to the suburban backyard in Carmichael, California where two young animal-loving siblings named Daniel (age 13) and Emma (age 10) Mecham found her wandering around.

Disoriented, lost and terrified without her flock, Wendy was a lone sheep on the loose near Sacramento, California until she found herself stuck in a roadside ditch full of water and mud, completely unable to move.

With panoramic views of the Hudson River, lush flower gardens and its historic Cloisters museum, Fort Tryon Park in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan is an exquisite haven of nature amidst New York City's concrete-encrusted landscape.

Standing just over a foot high and weighing about 10 pounds, Jack is barely bigger than a large rooster; but the amount of love this tiny goat has to share is immeasurable.

Andre, Albert and 18 other chickens once lived in misery at a high school in Canandaigua, New York.

Since 1986, Farm Sanctuary has performed hundreds of rescues. During the summer of 2008, we faced one of our most daunting.

Against unbelievable odds, a newborn calf named Mario has gone from the trash heap to sanctuary.