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

27/10/2025

🐔 TRANSPORT NEEDED URGENTLY 🐔

Only 3 days to go!!! We have a mammoth 1000 hens to transport around the country on Friday night and have *almost* all our drivers organized. The last 2 pieces of the puzzle involve our West Auckland and Matakana runs.

For West Auckland, we have an amazing driver lined up with a tow ball! We just need a float or similar to tow the crated hens in 🙏 if you have something that could be used, and are happy to lend it out for a good cause, please get in touch ASAP!

Our Matakana run is a little trickier. We currently have no one lined up and need to get 80 hens from Maramarua to Matakana at 7:30pm, so it's a bit of an adventure! Again, this could be 1 person with a float, or I'm sure we could make it work with 3 cars or 2 station wagons with the right combinations of crates 😅

Please DM us here, or email [email protected] if you can help with any aspect of this 🙏 fuel can be covered 😊

18/10/2025

🐔 LAST CHANCE FOR THE CHICKENS 🐔

Ok, our first run for this rescue is just 5 days away!!! If you want to adopt, today is your last day to apply!

Just email [email protected] with:

🐔 Photos of your coop and roaming area
🐔 The number of hens you'd like to adopt
🐔 Your best contact number
🐔 Your preferred pickup area

Our other dilemma is transport 😬 For Thursday night, we only need 1 (MAYBE 2) car loads to Albany - please let me know urgently if you can do this 🙏

For the 31st, we need to get:
🐔 80 hens (around 3 carloads, or 1 float) to Matakana
🐔 125 hens (4-5 cars or 1 float) to Albany
🐔 100 hens (3-4 cars or 1 float) to Helensville
🐔 50 hens (2 cars) to Bombay - this could potentially be 1 person making 2 trips since it's close

All you need is a car - banana boxes can be used to contain the hens for the drive, or dog/cat crates if you have them 😊 if you have a float I can supply some crates, just let me know what you need!

The start point for all these drives is Maramarua. DM or email [email protected] if you can help 🙏

05/10/2025

🐔 2000 HENS NEED HOMES NOW 🐔

WE'RE NEARLY HALF WAY!!!!!

This is where things get fiddly. Some pickup areas are now full, but we still need homes for just over 1000 hens 😬

To make life more interesting, we've also had a date change, so we'll be rescuing these girls on the 23rd, as well as the 31st as planned - effectively moving the whole rescue forward a week!!! 🙀

So where do we need homes?
Albany, Franklin, North Waikato, Cambridge, Thames and Taumuranui all still have space!

When?
Pickups will be happening on the evenings of the 23rd and 31st, with some places able to hold the hens overnight for collection on the morning of the 1st - you'll get exact details in the logistics email once approved.

How??
Just email [email protected] with:
🐔 Photos of your coop and roaming area
🐔 The number of hens you'd like to adopt
🐔 Your area for collection
🐔 Your best contact number

It truly is crunch time now, and the reality is that any hens without homes lined up will be slaughtered 😭 PLEASE adopt rescue hens if you've been thinking about adding chickens to your family!
And if you can't adopt right now, you can make an enormous difference just by sharing this post, tagging your chicken-loving friends, or commenting your favourite thing about spring (mine is definitely getting back into my garden!) ❤️

Ready... Set... ADOPT CHICKENS!

22/09/2025

🐔 2000 HENS NEED HOMES NOW 🐔

With dates set in concrete, we now seriously need to get homes approved for our upcoming 2000 hen rescue!

Where?
We'll have pick up points from Matakana all the way down to Taumuranui / Rotorua, and everywhere in between!

When?
The rescue will happen on the 31st of October and 7th of November, with most people able to pick up on the Saturday morning.

How??
Just email [email protected] with:
🐔 Photos of your coop and roaming area
🐔 The number of hens you'd like to adopt
🐔 Your area for collection
🐔 Your best contact number

It truly is crunch time now, and the reality is that any hens without homes lined up will be slaughtered 😭 PLEASE adopt rescue hens if you've been thinking about adding chickens to your family!
And if you can't adopt right now, you can make an enormous difference just by sharing this post, tagging your chicken-loving friends, or commenting your favourite thing about school holidays ❤️

Ready... Set... ADOPT CHICKENS!

01/09/2025

🐔 COMMUNITY REHOME 🐔

Edit: She has a home!!!! Thank you so much everyone!!!

It's a tale as old as time...
This black beauty wandered onto poor Ian's property (much to the delight of his dogs!) and made herself at home! He's tried door knocking and posting on his local groups, but no one seems to know where Miss Chook has come from!
The SPCA won't return his calls, and now Ian's left with a small, feathery problem on his hands.
With his dogs, staying isn't an option, so we need to find her a safe new forever home, with humans who can pick her up from Papakura ASAP!
If that could be you, please call or text Ian on 021 235 1139, or email [email protected].

20/08/2025

🐔 2000 HENS NEED HOMES 🐔

November may seem ages away, but it'll truly be here before we know it, and with 2000 hens needing homes, we need all the time we can get to process applications!!!!!

Please, if you want to adopt rescue hens in Auckland or the Waikato before mid 2026, apply now!!!!!

To apply, email [email protected] with:

🐔 Photos of your coop and roaming area
🐔 Your best contact number
🐔 Your area for collection
🐔 The number of hens you'd like to adopt

If you can't adopt, blow this post up! 🙏🥰 The areas we'll be transporting hens to are:
Albany
West Auckland
East Auckland
Franklin
North Waikato
Cambridge
Thames
Rotorua
Taumuranui

I'll now go patiently await the onslaught of emails 😉🤞

18/08/2025

🐔 HEN RESCUE UPDATE 🐔

TLDR:
The next Waikato rescue is early November, and we'll need homes for 2000 hens!! The next Northland rescue will be early next year. Email [email protected] to apply 🙏🥰

The last Northland rescue was madness. We had multiple date changes, the number of hens available to save changed 3 times, and we had major illness interfere at several key junctions.

Despite all of that, the marvelous people of Northland rallied in such a big way, and we got 260 hens safely off to their forever homes with next to no notice!!! I am SO grateful to this incredible community for pushing that post so hard and helping us to find all the homes we needed!

We have a little breathing room now, but the Waikato/Auckland rescue is going to be mammoth, with a goal of 2000 hens rescued!

If you can adopt, just email [email protected] with:

🐔 Photos of your coop and roaming area
🐔 Your area for collection
🐔 Your best contact number
🐔 The number of hens you'd like to adopt

I'll be chipping away at these after work and on Mondays, so please be patient if you don't hear back right away 😅

10/08/2025

🐓 URGENT COMMUNITY REHOME 🐓

Roo the rooster is looking to move house urgently! He was adopted as a chick with his sisters, and has been a wonderful protector to them, but sadly can't stay at his current address 😢

This beautiful boy ideally needs to find a new home this week! He is located near Whangarei. If you can give Roo the harem and home of his dreams, please contact Andrea on 021 02514599 as soon as possible!

Let's get this boy home!

19/07/2025

🐔 URGENT NORTHLAND RESCUE 🐔

Our September Northland rescue has suddenly been brought forward to AUGUST 3RD!!! 🙀🙀

We urgently need all the homes we can find in Northland. There are 400 hens, and any we don't find homes for will be culled 🥺

You have exactly one week to let me know if you can adopt, as I'll need a week to find enough drivers, etc, to accommodate all your lovely girls 🥰

TO ADOPT:

Email [email protected] with:
🐔 Photos of your coop and roaming area
🐔 Your contact number
🐔 Your preferred pick up - Kerikeri, Whangarei, Matakana or Albany
🐔 THE number of hens you'd like to adopt

If you can't adopt, please blow this post up 🙏🙏🙏 I can't fathom leaving any girls behind 😭😭😭

This will be the last Northland rescue this year, so get in while you can!!!

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Our Story

In 2018 we started looking to the future, aiming to move to a lifestyle block where we dreamed of one day opening an animal sanctuary. Unfortunately we didn’t manage to move but it did start a journey of self reflection which led to the realisation that we were making a thousand excuses, and letting society dictate what was or wasn’t achievable for us!

So we stopped with the excuses and decided that if saving animals and making a difference was important, we needed to start NOW! Fast forward a year and our house looks completely different. We’ve completely switched the outside spaces up to accommodate rescue chickens, baby chicks and ducklings, rabbits and other small animals as they come in. Our weekends are now spent changing the bedding in our various animal houses/enclosures, and my days as a stay at home mum include so many more varieties of poo than they did before... and we wouldn’t have it any other way!

Our goal is still to move to more space as soon as we can afford to. There are so many more animals out there that need a safe haven, and we’d love to be able to help bobby calves in particular, being surrounded here by dairy farms. For now the biggest impact we can have is in the rescue and rehoming of ex battery/barn hens so you’ll likely see our pleas for loving forever homes pop up every so often.

If you come across a clutch of chicks or ducklings that you’re sure have been abandoned, a chicken that needs a home, or any other small furry or feathery friends in need, send us a message as soon as possible and we will do everything we can to help! If we’re not personally set up for your animal in need we will help put you in contact with the appropriate organisation. Every life matters, and working together we can make the world of difference for these innocent souls.