Eastern Shore Sanctuary Blog

Just sharing this picture so that everybody can get a glimpse of the colorful circumstances in which the chickens and other animals at the sanctuary spend their days.

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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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Earlier this year, the Eastern Shore Sanctuary welcomed a small number of roosters and hens who had been confiscated from a squalid hole-in-the-wall where they had been held for purposes of cockfighting and, in the case of the hens, breeding. The local Humane Society that took in the birds and placed them with us made [...]

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We got some good news yesterday, via Mary Finelli at Farmed Animal Watch: High feed prices are, as we predicted in our Strategic Action Memo on the subject, driving down poultry industry profits.
The big publicly traded poultry companies - Tyson Foods, Sanderson Farms and Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. - have all seen their stock prices [...]

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The Eastern Shore Sanctuary recently released a report urging animal advocates to seize opportunities for activism arising from recent surges in feed prices. What we (typically) forgot to say is that those surges have hurt us too. Sharp rises in the prices of corn, wheat, and other staples have significantly increased our weekly feed bill. [...]

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While our website is under reconstruction, let us direct you to a couple of recent blog posts by visitors to the Eastern Shore Sanctuary. Vengeful vegan Isa Chandra Moskowitz spent some time at the sanctuary early this year, blogging about it here and posting more photos here. Sanctuary volunteer Deb Durant came down to help [...]

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Light rain refreshes the green weeds outside my window as I write this first post for the new Eastern Shore Sanctuary blog. A feral hen hustles her two chicks under the shelter of a large-leafed plant. Two black-and-white ducks — former foie gras factory inmates — stretch their large wings to catch every drop of [...]

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