Eastern Shore Sanctuary Blog

At the Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center, we are quite familiar
with the phenomenon Natalie Angier exemplifies so perfectly in her essay
“Sorry, Vegans: Brussels Sprouts Like to Live, Too.” We call it psychic
self-defense.
And so, while I will refute Angier’s primary argument against veganism
later in this response, I believe it is instructive to first think about
the [...]

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This coming Tuesday, the fabulous Toronto-based radio show “Animal Voices” will interview Eastern Shore Sanctuary worker Miriam Jones about rehabilitating cockfighting roosters.
The show will air between 11 AM and NOON, eastern time, on Tuesday, November 10, 2009.
If none of your local radio stations will air the show, you can check it out online, either [...]

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Two weeks and one day into the rehabilitation process, two of the new roosters are FREE! Free of the “training” cages they live in during the day out in the yards while they get used to being around other birds whom they are not forced to fight. Free of the crates in which they sleep [...]

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It’s been almost a week now and the cacophony is KINDA SORTA calming down.
Yes, I’m referring to the crowing of the 23 roosters from Farm Sanctuary in combination with the crowing of the roosters who were already here, all of whom seem to set each other off. No wonder these guys are [...]

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Get your comments heard! Go to http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/09/backyard-chickens and tell the world why backyard birding must be undertaken, if at all, only with extreme care and caution.

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A short post today to share a short thought. As most of you know, we recently relocated the sanctuary here to Vermont, and are lucky enough to have five apple trees and two peach trees on the property (not to mention 30 years of gardening by a master gardener who has left us with beauty [...]

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On October 2, 2009, 24 roosters (and two hens) will be arriving from Farm Sanctuary! We are thrilled, and have in fact created a new area in which they will live. Here’s a pic. [Please note, this was taken before the windows were cut. :-)]

This is a great opportunity to discuss roosters for a minute. [...]

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Of course, not all church camps would agree that torturing animals is great fun, but this one apparently does. What follows is a song which was sent by a young woman. Her summer church camp leaders taught it to over 300 girls:
Well, I had a little chicken that wouldn’t lay an egg
So I poured hot [...]

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