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Grow together.
🐐 Rescue
🐓 Rehabilitate
🐖 Rehome
🐄 Educate
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Franklin Farm Sanctuary, 12-3052-0030360-00 ❤

22/10/2026

🐔 WAIKATO CHICKEN RESCUE - 2 WEEKS TO GO 🐔

Our last rescue for the year is barreling toward us, and with only 2 weeks to go we desperately need more homes in the mighty Waikato!! (Also Auckland, you guys are mighty too)

We have pickup points in West Auckland, Franklin, North Waikato, Thames and Cambridge, with collection for all of these on the morning of November 7th!!!

If you can adopt, please email [email protected] with:
🐔 The number of hens you'd like to adopt
🏠 Photos of your coop and roaming area
📍 Your location for pickup
☎️ Your best contact number

If you can't adopt, please share this post to local grapevines, tag your friends, pressure your friends, buy chickens for your friends...

Let's get these girls home!!!

08/10/2026

🐔 CHICKENS NEED HOMES - 80 TO GO!!!! 🐔

Ok we are legitimately so close now!!! 80 hens still need homes next weekend, and unfortunately our Kerikeri run is now full 🥺

The important bits:

Pick up points will be Kerikeri (full), Whangarei, Puhoi and Albany.

To adopt just email [email protected] with:

🐔 The number of hens you'd like to adopt
🏠 Photos of your coop and roaming area
📍 Your location for pickup
☎️ Your best contact number

The important-in-a-different way bits:

We only have days left to vet homes and get our lists together so it is more crucial than ever that we share this to every household in Rodney and Northland!! Pretty please work your magic and get this post to blow up 🙏🙏🙏

And for our Waikato folk - you won't be far behind! Your rescue is November 7th. Just email [email protected] with the same details above to apply!!

Let's get these girls home!!!

28/09/2026

🐔 CHICKENS NEED HOMES - 200 TO GO 🐔

Wow!!!! Since our last chicken post we are a whopping HALFWAY to having homes for all these hens!!!! Though that does mean we still need homes for 200 hens on October 18th 😅

The important bits:

Pick up points will be Kerikeri, Whangarei, Puhoi and Albany.

To adopt just email [email protected] with:

🐔 The number of hens you'd like to adopt
🏠 Photos of your coop and roaming area
📍 Your location for pickup
☎️ Your best contact number

The important-in-a-different way bits:

We only have 2 weeks left to vet homes and get our lists together so it is more crucial than ever that we share this to every household in Rodney and Northland!! Pretty please work your magic and get this post to blow up 🙏🙏🙏

And for our Waikato folk - you won't be far behind! Your rescue is November 7th. Just email [email protected] with the same details above to apply!!

Let's get these girls home!!!

27/09/2026

We wanted to give this it's own space, away from Chickening.

THANK YOU!!!!!!

Seriously, thank you SO much!! We truly only shared the news of the fire to explain why email replies were a bit slack that week but were met with a tidal wave of kindness and genuine help! The donations we've received allowed us to order a hay shed which is being made as I type, as well as replace the bins and containers we use to store feed and all our animal health supplies. We have been overwhelmed with your generosity, you are all absolute angels!!!

There were a number of common questions on our last post and some of the posts from others which I wanted to answer for various reasons:

1. We'll never know for sure what caused it since the destruction was so absolute, but it looks to be an electrical fault, likely caused by rats. This is such a stark lesson to check your wiring regularly if you're rural! And get good smoke alarms!! I'll certainly be upgrading to the type that will alert your phone if a fire starts. I hate to think what would have happened if our neighbours had left for work already!

2. Yes we are insured and that's why I haven't done our own post asking for donations. We deeply appreciate the help we've had to get the essentials we need for the animals straight away, and a temporary storage solution while we rebuild isn't covered, but the majority is and when we are back on our feet we will absolutely be paying forward the kindness and generosity we've received during this difficult stage ❤️

And some good news!

The aftermath has been cleared, our new water tanks are in and filled, and the insurance wheels continue to turn 🥳

And thanks to all of you it is otherwise business as usual 🙏 So keep those chicken applications coming, and we'll share updates as and when we have happier news to share 😅

17/09/2026

🐔 CHICKENS NEED HOMES 🐔

Oh. My. Gosh. You guys!!!!! I just want to very quickly say a heartfelt THANK YOU!!!! For all the love and support from my last post! Your kind words, generous donations and offers of help have been deeply appreciated and I'll do a separate post answering some FAQs and updating you all.

For right now my priority is our next chicken rescue, happening October 18th!!! With everything going on I've not pushed it enough and we desperately need homes for 400 hens!!!! I am very proud of the fact that this particular farm has not had to cull a single hen in years, and I don't plan on letting them down now!

The important bits:

Pick up points will be Kerikeri, Whangarei, Puhoi and Albany.

To adopt just email [email protected] with:

🐔 The number of hens you'd like to adopt
🏠 Photos of your coop and roaming area
📍 Your location for pickup
☎️ Your best contact number

The important-in-a-different way bits:

We only have 3 weeks left to vet homes and get our lists together so it is more crucial than ever that we share this to every household in Rodney and Northland!! Pretty please work your magic and get this post to blow up 🙏🙏🙏

Let's get these girls home!!!

06/09/2026

How does one start a post like this??

TLDR: We had a pretty major fire here at the Sanctuary this week, so apologize for any delay in responding to emails! The chicken rescues will proceed as planned so please keep applications rolling in 🙏

As for the long version, well we went to work as normal on Monday morning, with an in-tact barn, sleepout, calf shed and wood shed! Shortly after getting to work a neighbour called to let me know our house was on fire🙀🙀🙀 20 minutes later we had lost all our outbuildings and everything in them.

The headline though, in my opinion, is that we live in the BEST little community in the whole freaking country!!! Not only did this incredible neighbour call me, she first called the fire brigade AND other neighbours. We had people hosing down the house so it didn't also catch fire before the fire crews got there, we had a neighbour climb through the window to make sure our birds and dog would be safe if the house did go, we had another neighbour bring us dinner and enough bottled water to last a week, knowing our tanks were destroyed. Another neighbour called and offered to bring us lunch. FOUR volunteer fire crews arrived to save our home, and were beyond kind when I got home in an absolute daze (I still feel bad for not having cookies or something to offer them all!). We had local businesses put on extra deliveries for us over the weekend so we could get tanks delivered, installed and filled on Saturday, rather than wait an extra couple of days to get water back up and running. Our amazing local school somehow figured out it was our place and called to make sure we were ok, and ask how they could support the kids.

I truly wouldn't wish this on anyone, it's been a terrifying experience, but as we can't change the fact it happened, I am choosing to focus on the unbelievable kindness we've been shown, my overwhelming gratitude for the community we call home, and the fact that we still have a home and no one (animal or human) was hurt in the fire ❤️

01/09/2026

🗓 SAVE THE DATE - FOR CHICKENS 🗓

Ok we have dates for both Rodney/Northland and Waikato!!! I know right, the picture of organisation!

These two rescues will see nearly 1000 lives saved, but only if we can find the homes! If you can adopt, please read on and follow the application instructions 🙏 If not, let's get this in front of those who can! Every comment, like, and share makes all the difference for these girls, and every rescue we're discovered by new adopters who had no idea we were here! Those of you helping in this way, we see you, and we appreciate you more than you could possibly know!!!

The process is mostly the same for everyone, with a few key differences listed below 😊 To adopt just email the appropriate contact with:

🐔 The number of hens you'd like to adopt
🏠 Photos of your coop and roaming area
📍 Your location for pickup
☎️ Your best contact number

🌞 Rodney/Northland 🌞

When: October 18, pick ups around midday
Where: Albany, Puhoi, Whangarei, Kerikeri
Contact: [email protected]

🚜 Waikato 🚜

When: November 7th, pickups that evening or the next morning, depending on location
Where: TBC but generally Auckland down to Cambridge/Thames
Contact: [email protected]

Let's get these girls home! 🥳

30/08/2026

THAT'S IT, I'M DONE!!!

Omg sorry but I needed you to stop scrolling for a minute!! And in a way it's true 🙈

With (paid) work ramping up for me, we've begun the gradual handover of Sanctuary Manager to my incredible husband, Sam 😍

This means if you message this page, you'll actually get a reply! And it'll be from this unicorn of a man right here. If you're adopting in the Waikato, you'll be liaising with Sam ([email protected]) and you'll start to see more replies to comments coming from him as well 🥰

I'll still be here, offering support and managing the Rodney/Northland rescues, as well as posting when the boss gives me a kick 🤣🤣 This has been a labor of love for nearly 8 years now, and I am so excited to see what we can achieve with fresh eyes, energy and enthusiasm at the helm!

Watch this space for chicken rescue dates to be announced later this week!!

29/07/2026

🐔 CRUNCH TIME FOR CHICKENS 🐔

After much consultation with experts, careful consideration and firming up of processes, we've found a way forward with our upcoming rescue through this tricky time for our avian friends! However all of this has taken time, and now we have only a few short weeks to find homes before the rescue on August 22nd!!!

Look at all these smiling faces 🥰 Clearly chickens make you smile, and don't we all need a bit more joy in our lives???? And although we do have more rescues planned for later in the year, we need to respond with caution as the bird flu situation unfolds, so nothing is truly guaranteed beyond this rescue!

Now that you're entirely convinced (but before you drop everything to build your coop), you need to know how to get some of these little balls of joy into your life!!

Email [email protected] (please don't try a different method of contact, this is truly your best option). To speed things up, please include:

🏡 Photos of your coop and roaming area
🐔 How many hens you'd like
📍 Where you can collect from - we'll hopefully have pick up point in West Auckland, East Auckland, Pukekawa, Te Kauwhata, Hamilton, Thames, and Taumuranui
🤳 Your best contact number

If you can't adopt, please help us get the word out there! Community grapevines are an absolute gift, or if you know someone who's mentioned adopting hens, tag them here!!!

Let's get these girls home!

20/07/2026

🐔 THIS IS A CHICKEN RESCUE POST 🐔

But aren't you all sick of looking at chickens? And how cute are our other babies?!?!?!

Right, now that you're all zen from cute farm animals. We have a TONNE of chickens to save! We haven't put a number on this one because there's genuinely too many and we can only do what we can do, but every hen saved is one less being killed 🥺

If you're in or near West Auckland, East Auckland, Franklin, Te Kauwhata, Thames, Hamilton/Cambridge, or Taumuranui - the rescue is happening in the last weekend of August!!!

We don't have much time to get this together, so if you can adopt, please email [email protected] with:

🏡 Photos of your coop and roaming area (previous adopters can skip this step, just mention that you've adopted before)
🐔 How many chickens you'd like
🤳 Your phone number
📍 Your best pickup location

If you can't adopt, you can still help! Pretty please share this to all relevant community pages, tag your animal-loving friends, convince your neighbours to go in on a community coop and share the load of animal care and eggs.... Let's get these girls home!!!!!

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