FAR Residents

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, 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 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 […]

Jackson the rescued goat At the hands of a hoarder When sweet Jackson arrived at Farm Animal Rescue he was emaciated and very, very sad. A victim of an animal hoarder, we still do not know what made someone tie him to a tree on the side of the road with neither food or water, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Rescued lambs Malcolm, Martin & Nelson Nelson, Martin & Malcolm are three lambs rescued from a slaughterhouse just thirty minutes before they were due to be slaughtered. The boys became immediately famous after rescue and known as the Dominion Lambs, their photo has appeared in papers and news programs around the world as a beacon […]

Precious According to the Oxford dictionary the word precious as an adjective means “of great value, not to be wasted or treated carelessly” and as a noun it is used as a term for a beloved. Whilst the Angus beef industry from which Precious was rescued considered her value only in the steak they could […]

Isabella the Rescued Dorper Lamb One lucky lamb Isabella is a Dorper/Damara cross lamb, and we suspect, as many of this breed, she was bred to be killed for her meat. In early January 2013, Isabella had only just been born and was with her mother on a farm where buyers can pre-order their meat […]