Lefty's Place Farm Sanctuary

Lefty's Place Farm Sanctuary Lefty’s Place is a farm sanctuary in the Macedon Ranges, Victoria. We are primarily a chicken sanctuary. Operating since 2011.

We rescue, rehabilitate and tell the stories of suffering animals everywhere. DONATIONS ALWAYS TRULY WELCOME

FOR DIRECT BANK DEPOSITS:

ACCOUNT NAME: Lefty's Place Inc
BANK: NAB
BSB: 083-451 ACCOUNT NO: 74-132-0298

OR VIA PAYPAL:
paypal.me/leftysplace

It’s chicken vet day here today, but everyone is way too busy creating huge holes everywhere for fantastic dust baths.Pi...
10/06/2026

It’s chicken vet day here today, but everyone is way too busy creating huge holes everywhere for fantastic dust baths.

Pictured - Purple Toupee and Artax

Good morning from Manny. 6.5 years old. Arrived as a chick from a nursing home hatching program. Loves staring, loves he...
08/06/2026

Good morning from Manny. 6.5 years old. Arrived as a chick from a nursing home hatching program. Loves staring, loves her name and really loves cars. Beep beep.

June 5 was Bullet With Butterfly Wings 5th rescue anniversary. Her 5th year of living her best life here also marks her ...
07/06/2026

June 5 was Bullet With Butterfly Wings 5th rescue anniversary. Her 5th year of living her best life here also marks her last few days/weeks of her life here. Bullet is currently palliative and has large reproductive tumours that cannot be stopped. Like all Isa browns, she has been selectively bred to lay an egg a day for greedy humans and that in the end is what kills them all. Bullet has been implanted most of her life to try and prevent this from happening, but it is essentially just a band aid - their bodies are ticking time bombs because we have made them be egg machines for us.

Bullet was rescued by a security guard on the road outside of Star Poultry abattoir in 2021. Bullet got out of the crate when it was opened by workers and ran. A security guard caught her on the road and refused to give her back.

Bullet is currently comfortable and still bright between bouts of sleeping, but her time is soon. There is nothing fair about the way we view and use these birds. We take their reproductive systems and control them so we can eat their eggs. The whole thing is revolting.

Photo on the left is Bullet when she arrived. Photo on the right is Bullet today.

JUNE WISH LIST!Lefty's Place is just a little place full of animals who needed a place to go. It's mostly full of chicke...
07/06/2026

JUNE WISH LIST!

Lefty's Place is just a little place full of animals who needed a place to go. It's mostly full of chickens who needed me and needed a new family. In the past year I have actually rehomed hens (more than I ever have), but it's been only to the most amazing homes. Mostly, I set this place up for chickens who have experienced pure hell to have a forever home and forever people in my sister and I. Once they land here, they are always safe and always seen. Lefty's may not get accolades or fanfare or huge support outside of this tiny page, but we quietly go about giving these animals their best lives until they are ready to go...and then we give them their best deaths as well. Thank you to all of you who help me just quietly go about this. It is a gift.

Here is my simple June Wish List.

*VET BILLS - Lefty's currently has vets bills up near ten thousand dollars owing. All new arrivals are always vet checked. All chickens with chronic pain receive acupuncture fortnightly. All hens are checked for reproductive problems constantly. It's an expensive business.

*SUPRELORIN IMPLANTS - We need implants. And lots of them. Any amount of money donated towards implants would be truly amazing.

(fyi - I have recently just filled out the forms for DGR status yet again. If this is important to you, hopefully this year will be the year).

Donate here via PayPal - https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=M3GWHD97MERN6

Or via bank deposit -
ACCOUNT NAME: Lefty’s Place Inc
BANK: NAB
BSB: 083-451 ACCOUNT NO: 74-132-0298

PLEASE WRITE WHAT YOU'D LIKE YOUR DONATION TO GO TO.
Thank you with all my heart!

Pictured - Dr Miracle. Arrived in May after being dumped by a creek in Brunswick.

477, Dawson St and Hourly Daily arrived just over three weeks ago as emaciated backyard hens with very slow moving huge ...
05/06/2026

477, Dawson St and Hourly Daily arrived just over three weeks ago as emaciated backyard hens with very slow moving huge crops and gizzards full of dirt. They were so so sick.

This is them now - completely integrated in to a big flock, healthy moving crops and putting on weight.

They won’t be rehomed to have to experience backyard neglect again. They are now home, for life.

My disabled girls out in the sun for a bit just now. Chickadeedee, Peggy Sue and Twistie. These three girls spend a lot ...
05/06/2026

My disabled girls out in the sun for a bit just now. Chickadeedee, Peggy Sue and Twistie. These three girls spend a lot of time in my bedroom and sadly this last week, living with me has been no fairytale. I’ve had a pretty shocking virus and with 200 animals to care for, it’s been no picnic. Huge thanks to my sister for being my right hand (wo)man, dad for always collecting all the feed and mum for attempting to feed me. Ive still had two new hens arrive this week (the chickens never stop arriving here), so nothing stops the wheels here.

I don’t think I’ve introduced you to Village before. This amazing boy has been here since January and had been on the ru...
02/06/2026

I don’t think I’ve introduced you to Village before. This amazing boy has been here since January and had been on the run here and there and everywhere. When he was finally caught, Edgar’s Mission took on the responsibility of castrating him before sending him onward here to his forever home 🙏. He is a reticent fellow who isn’t a huge fan of me, but like them all, time is always what they need.

I got sent this and by chance opened it today on Bob’s anniversary day. How lucky am I! Thank you Christina, your absolu...
01/06/2026

I got sent this and by chance opened it today on Bob’s anniversary day. How lucky am I! Thank you Christina, your absolute talent and love in this painting has soothed my soul today. ❤️🙏❤️

*it’s way more amazing in real life!

Sometimes when the sun hits my face, I wonder if she’s nearby. Sometimes when I look at a star I can hear her gruffly te...
01/06/2026

Sometimes when the sun hits my face, I wonder if she’s nearby. Sometimes when I look at a star I can hear her gruffly telling me off in the middle of the night when I would cough, or even just move a little. Today my little ball of joy has been gone five years and I still think of her most days - her little face beaming up at me, demanding all my attention and screaming until she got it.

Bob wasn’t meant to see the light, she was meant to rot away in a tiny cage in an egg farm in Gippsland, Victoria. She was meant to be sent to her death when her egg production dropped off at roughly two years old. As fate had it, the night I walked into that shed, the light in her that was trapped in that cage called to me and we stopped and took her with us. Her broken body was a mess, but her spirit was ready to be found… and to be found by me. What followed was seven years with the funniest, cheekiest hen in the world. They are all unique and they are all full of light, but Bob and I shared a language no one else did.

She truly lit up my life. What an absolute privilege it was knowing and sharing her life with her. That crazy broken necked chicken with a love of licking flowers, computers, boots and pants made me laugh every single day. Although there is a part of my soul that died along with her five years ago, I hang on to the fact that I have a little shining guiding light somewhere out there pushing me on to help her sisters and her brothers.

Miss you Bobby Bob Bob. Every day.

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P. O. BOX 392
Romsey, VIC
3434

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