Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, located in the Catskill Mountains, three hours north of New York City. It’s an animal orphanage, where these abandoned farm animals can go to live out the rest of their days in peace and comfort. Director Jenny Brown, described as a “militant vegan” in this article from narratively, says, “We’re up to our eyebrows in chickens. We’ve seen more chickens come through here than I can count.” The Sanctuary has had to build another barn just to accommodate former backyard and slaughterhouse chickens.

1. Ever since #urban #farming became popular, there’s been a boom in the
number of #abandoned #animals. The idea of keeping #chickens, #turkeys,
or #goats in a tiny backyard is often more appealing in theory than in
practice. Cute #piglets and #rabbits become larger, demanding creatures,
and many people don’t know what to do with these #animals once the
novelty of caring for them has worn off. Roosters are sometimes sold
accidentally as hens (if they haven’t been used for meat), which is
problematic, since they’re banned by many cities.
The lucky ones get sent to the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, located
in the Catskill Mountains, three hours north of New York City. It’s an animal
orphanage, where these abandoned#farm #animals can go to live out the
rest of their days in peace and comfort. Director Jenny Brown, described as
a “militant vegan” in this article from narratively, says, “We’re up to our
eyebrows inchickens. We’ve seen more chickens come through here than I
can count.” The Sanctuary has had to build another barn just to
accommodate former backyard and slaughterhouse #chickens.

2. The Sanctuary also strives to educate people about the horrors of
factory #farming and how most animals are raised under awful
circumstances to be eaten. “Those childhood images of happy
animals living on sunny, idyllic #farms couldn’t be further from reality,” its
website reads. Ironically, many of the enthusiastic urbanites who launch
backyard farming projects do so in reaction to the same. They want to
escape the factory farming cycle, and so buy chickens that can provide
fresh, local, and traceable #eggs. Unfortunately, it’s a bigger job than many
anticipate.