Rescue & Adoptions

Home Adoption & Placement

Farm Sanctuary operates the country’s largest farm animal rescue and adoption network. Every year, we assist with urgent placement needs — particularly in cruelty cases involving large numbers of animals. When our shelters are full, we depend on compassionate people who want to make a direct difference for a suffering cow, pig, chicken or other farm animal. Since 1986, over 1,500 needy farm animals have been given a new beginning — thanks to people who care enough to join our FARM ANIMAL ADOPTION NETWORK (FAAN).

Chickens Saved from School Slaughter Project

Not long ago, Andre was living in misery at a school in Canandaigua, New York, where he and 18 other chickens were being used as teaching tools in an ecology classroom unit for which students reared and slaughtered live birds. Read the story.

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Order Gene Baur’s best-seller, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, now in paperback.

Good News for Teachers! The Cultivating Compassion program makes it easy to bring compassion to the classroom.