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An excerpt from a forthcoming memoir about the sanctuary’s first decade. They arrived by night. Two ducks, six ducklings, four hens, two roosters and one very terrified turkey huddled in plastic pet-carriers in the back of a pick-up truck. They’d all been living together in a tiny shed until the Delaware family who thought of . . . → Read More: Turkeys and Other Endangered Species 
The turkey known as Lois came to VINE when her free-spirited ways made it difficult for her human companion to keep her safe. She arrived with an extended avian community including another turkey, Pearl, and a family of ducks. (Their former caregiver visits them whenever she can and also pitches in, however she can, as . . . → Read More: Lois the Traveling Turkey 
Guest post by Zipporah Weisberg There’s just something about Tiny Tom. He shines forth so brightly. When I met him, he still looked threadbare, with many feathers missing. Yet, he held himself with such gentle dignity. This combination of total vulnerability, disarming sweetness, and inner strength cut me to the quick. I simply had to . . . → Read More: The Immeasurable Magic of Tiny Tom 
Celebrate the arrival of the 40th cow in residence at VINE Sanctuary by meeting all of the beautiful bovines who forage in our forested pastures. . . . → Read More: Wow, That’s a Lot of Cows! You don’t have to be rich, or even solvent, to help VINE raise the funds to keep the sanctuary going. Here are 10 ways you can help us keep everybody fed, housed, and healthy while maintaining the sanctuary buildings and grounds. . . . → Read More: 10 Ways You Can Support the Sanctuary (without Writing a Check) 
On the VINE Sanctuary Facebook page, we’ve often shared photos of chickens roosting on sheep and of sheep giving rides to roosters. Yesterday, I saw something that left no doubt in my mind that the sheep are willing and purposeful participants in these charming instances of interspecies cooperation. Snow coats the ground here at VINE . . . → Read More: Ewe Helps Rooster Stay Out of the Snow 
Two of the 17 former fighting roosters recently taken in by VINE Sanctuary are completely rehabilitated, and several others are nearly there. . . . → Read More: Fighting Rooster Rehabilitation Update 
Blue came to the sanctuary from a domestic violence situation. He had been a loner but, last summer, began hanging out with me almost constantly, waking me on my mornings off by crowing on my doorstep. Today, Blue suddenly took off running for the field across the driveway. Why? . . . → Read More: Blue to the Rescue “Turkey Day.” That’s what some people perversely call the day when diners gather greedily around tables laden with the dead bodies of big birds. “Anti-turkey Day” would be a more appropriate moniker for that “holiday.” But we are having a true “Turkey Day” here at VINE Sanctuary today. Six young birds who jumped or fell . . . → Read More: Turkey Day 
I wish you could have seen it. I wish everybody could have seen it. Last night, just before sundown, so the light was too dim for us to get pictures, the first of the cows from New Jersey arrived. (These are the five cows that became a Facebook cause when the people who had been . . . → Read More: A Buddy in Need is a Buddy Indeed |
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