J&D's Farm Sanctuary

22/10/2025

Lord Grantham being hilarious 😂

22/10/2025

Lord Grantham being sweet 💙

22/10/2025

Lady Cora hugs 💝

21/10/2025

3 years ago today John was rescuing the goats from the their flooded shelter and paddock, from that point the water kept on rising 🫤

Today is not so extreme but damaging winds will be sweeping through the state, just ironic that a weather event is happening today and this memory popped up!

20/10/2025

Sale now on!!!

Did we get your attention - lol?

We can't offer you a sale, but we can offer you some cool stuff to watch on YouTube, check out episode 26, please like, comment and subscribe to help our sanctuary grow!

This week we had to say goodbye to two of our beloved turkeys — rescued from a factory farm, given the chance to know kindness, and loved right to the end. ?...

18/10/2025

18/10/2025

This photo was taken 4 years ago today, we had just taken in Peach & Tayla our first rescue goats who came along with Pumpkin & Nucky the pigs - that was 4 years ago!!!

It’s nuts to think how much has changed, what we’ve learnt, the friendships we’ve made with other rescues and people we’ve met along the way, and the number of animals we have rescued since!

This photo kinda blows my mind - what a whirlwind, what a journey, what a life.

17/10/2025

Please have a read, share wide and please donate, what these humans do for the animals is wonderful and so underrated, caring for so many animals in need is much harder and costly than you can imagine. Sanctuaries can’t carry on without help, so please help them x

Shear Existence Sanctuary is a not for profit refuge and registered charity located in North East Victoria, providing a safe haven to formerly farmed animals who have suffered through illness, neglect and abandonment

17/10/2025

Currently in transit is this handsome lad who has been wandering the streets in the region of Bendigo for quite some time.
A kind local trapped him and sought safety for him — and given he has nowhere to call home, we’ve decided he can come to the sanctuary to receive the vet care and love he needs. Here, he’ll have safety, time to learn that people can be trusted, and eventually, find his forever home.

Bijan is expected any minute and already has a vet appointment booked for 3pm today — we’re so grateful we could tee this up so quickly!

We’re hoping to gather some support to help fund his vet work — desexing, vaccination, and microchipping.
At the same time, John is about to begin the mammoth job of building two new cat runs for the 20+ cats currently in our care. We have some materials to get started, but we need to raise funds to purchase the rest, including treated pine posts, concrete, treated timber, galvanised mesh panels, roofing, doors, windows, entry/exit flaps, screws, hinges, plus beds and enrichment once they’re complete!

If you’re in a position to help, donations can be made via:
🌱 Website: https://jdsfarmsanctuary.org.au/donate/
💚 PayPal: https://paypal.me/jdsfarmsanctuary
🏦 Direct Deposit:
Account Name: JDS Farm Sanctuary
BSB: 633 000
Account Number: 190 450 684

We’re a registered Not-for-Profit with DGR (Deductible Gift Recipient) status, which means all donations over $2 are tax-deductible.

Every bit of support — no matter the amount — truly helps us continue this work and give animals like Bijan the second chance they deserve. Thank you for being part of our sanctuary family. 🐾💚

16/10/2025

Dak Dak is here to represent the life of a turkey, but not just any turkey - his own unique, wonderfully charismatic and charming self that he is.
Do not be fooled, not all turkeys are as dapper and charming as Dak Dak, and that is precisely because he is an individual sentient being, just like any other sentient being on this planet.

Dak Dak wants to talk of those we lost today, two daringly different characters - two turkey lads who fell too soon in this world - that cares so little about animals that they can be intensively bred to make weight as fast as possible - no need for them to live past the 18 week mark given that their lives are ended whether that is what they want or not.

But for the Wu Tang Clan who arrived 24 November 2023 (7 baby turkeys), they felt their first moments of freedom, first rays of sun, the wind on their face, the smell of flowers and trees - they took it all in and embraced their new world wholeheartedly.

They took their new life in and loved every moment of it and showed their adoration (in true turkey style) and flirted with everyone who came to say hello, they are such social and h***y beings!

A mere two years later and the 'intensive' means of breeding and genetic selection meant their organs grew too big for their bodies to handle - for you see they weren't supposed to live past 18 weeks.

We knew their plight and have given the turkeys here the best life we can - that of love and freedom. Some still remain, whilst most of them have left us, including two dear souls today whom we had to help pass the pain this world inflicted on them in, and enter into peace 💔

16/10/2025

Went over to say hello to Shrimpie, he proceeded to follow me around the farm whilst I was filling up water as he decided I needed a tongue bath 😂🛁

Shrimpie is one of 6 dairy calves we rescued two years ago, baby boys are either killed at birth or kept confined until around 18 weeks then killed for veal.

Shrimpie made it out of the industry, there isn’t even a statistic for the number of cows in Australia who get to live a natural life and die of old age, how sad is that.