This is one of 27 battery hens that was rescued by Cedar Row Farm Sanctuary this past September. Here is a great link to the life of a battery hen in Canada. Humane Food.ca
Turkeys Are Cool
This little turkey was pulled from a bagged of gassed poults, to be fed to birds of prey. There were 4 alive this time, but only 2 survived. The 2 survivors will be going to live at The Roosters Inn in a couple of weeks. Thank you Claire Anderson, for all your hard work raising […]
Joaquin’s Getting Stronger!
Joaquin is getting stronger everyday, and was able to enjoy the sunshine and warm temperatures today. This little guy came to us a week and a half ago with only one good leg, and this is him 12 days later. His acupuncture treatment went really well, and the vet also put him on a […]
Joaquin Walking!
Joaquin tried walking today! The swelling is coming down on his front, left foot, and he is able to put some pressure on it. He drags his hind legs behind him but is trying to very hard to stand up. We had our pig vet out to see him last Friday, and he thinks the […]
Joaquin Update
A few days ago we received a desperate plea from a young couple. They found a piglet left for dead in a field. Though our farm is overflowing, we could not in good conscience turn away an injured baby. We took the little one to the vet yesterday, and while he will need a ton […]
Joaquin the Piglet
We received an urgent email on Friday night, from a young couple who had rescued a piglet, not 2 weeks old, from a pasture near Pembroke. The little pig was left for dead, after his mother had accidentally stepped on him, leaving a large wound on his back. After being out in the pasture for […]
Dark Wing
Plucky has a friend…… Dark Wing! Dark Wing started out as a day old, in a factory barn, near Woodstock, with thousands of other male poults. Because of his unique feather colouring, he was constantly picked on by the others. The farmer pulled him out and moved him to a separate enclosure in their yard. […]
Remus
Remus came to Cedar Row Farm Sanctuary on September 8th 2012. The young man who purchased him didn’t realize he couldn’t keep a pig in Toronto and needed to find him a home ASAP. He was bought Remus, a 12 week old pig, for $300, a week ago, and was told by the breeder that […]
Plucky
We welcomed Plucky, a very lucky turkey, to Cedar Row Farm Sanctuary in September 2012. Plucky came from an industrial turkey hatchery, where the unwanted males are gassed. The gassed males are sent to a Wildlife Sanctuary in bags, to be meals for birds of prey, A volunteer at the sanctuary heard a peeping from […]
Life the Pig
This is a rescue that that came to Cedar Row Farm Sanctuary in May 2011. He is one of 4 piglets that were found wandering the streets, in a city about 50 km southeast on Montreal. We are still working on a name for him and will soon introduce him to Jimmy, the other little […]