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Registered Charity: sanctuary & forever home to 20 cows + 🐮🐷🐑🦆🐔🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💚🌏

22/12/2024

A NEW HOME
Sherock Sanctuary was born when Emily and Shay moved onto their dream property and decided to save the 6 cows and their calves who were on the land but going to be slaughtered. It's since grown to include the 20 rescue moo kids as well as sheep, pigs, chickens and the occasional wildlife friend

Due to a very long struggle with ill health,
Emily and Shay have had to make the decision to officially step away from the Sanctuary.

My name is Andy - I've been running the sanctuary alongside Em and Shay for the last few years with my partner Dalina joining me in the mission to keep these kids safe. With Emily and Shay stepping back, Dalina and I are now running the sanctuary full time.

We are in the process of finding a property to ensure the long term future for the animals here with a likely move in the relatively near future. Its daunting and its scary but these kids are worth it 1000 times over and more.

This would not be possible at all without Shawn and Michael from The Animal Sanctuary who are partnering with us to help set up a new sanctuary site where we can ensure the long term future for the kids.

We would like to sincerely thank Emily and Shay for the countless hours, funds, love, sweat and tears they have given. Without them, these precious kids would never have been rescued and would not be alive today.
We wish them all the best.

Thank you to every single one of you supporting us - we truly could not do this without you.

Arohanui ###

Andy, Dalina and all the kids here 🥰❤️🐂🐮🐗🐷🦆🐔🦋🪽🐑💞

20/12/2024

BIG NEWS COMING!!!
Domino is here to wish you all a happy Friday and also to let you kmow that we will finally be able to share some really big news with you on Monday so watch this space.
With lots of love
❤️🐄🌿

12/12/2024

I was trying to bring my bike up the hill, but the cows had to inspect it first before they could let it through their paddock 🐮😅❤️

09/12/2024

That twin bond is something so special ❤️
I just love watching Louis and Eilish growing up together. They play, graze, sleep and jump around together and are just never far apart from each other. So much love🥰

30/11/2024

Took my phone out to take a picture of Harley lying down in the sun, and she stretched her head forward to see if there are some snacks in my pocket aswell - resulted in some funny, adorable pictures. 📸 Love you my sweet Harley 💛

15/11/2024

This is love ❤️
Batty and her daughter, Violet and Big Mama and her daughter, Harley.
Violet & Harley were born into the sanctuary after we rescued their pregnant mamas. I don't even know what words could describe the beautiful bond and love they have for each other - just look at those pictures ❤️☺️

11/11/2024

Big Mama feeding her daughter, Harley 💛

Time really flies - how is she already taller than her mama? She will always be a little baby in our eyes 🫶🏻

04/11/2024

Our Zeusy Bugys can be quite a drama queen ❤️👑

31/10/2024

This love though...
Tomorrow the twins, Louis and Eillish will be 3 weeks old. Which is crazy!! We were called to help a mama sheep in distress a few weeks ago. She has a complex case of mastitis and was emaciated and close to death when we found her. We brought her home and her name is Grace. She also surprised us with twins. She isn't able to produce much milk so we've been bottle feeding but they stay with mum and Remie has become the most awesome big brother ever. It's been a whirlwind but we are so grateful these three are safe and we can make sure they are never taken away from her. She and the babies are now doing heaps better, Grace will need surgery but she's gotta put on some weight first. She's so much stronger now and very quickly went from wanting to bolt at the sight of a human to trying to "helping" me cook dinner and demanding that I share lol.

The twins have also gotten heaps stronger from really floppy newborns to total zoomy play monstas and we are definitely thrilled to be past the night feeds lol.

Sorry weve been so quiet on here, things hwve been lretty full on and we've got some really big news coming up that we will be able to share with you soon.

Lots of love

09/10/2024

"Do you have to stand right there my love?"
This must be one of the most common things we say around here but it's impossible to be mad at Remie or Sally who are both super super keen on being part of everything. You might be able to see the black line on the board where I wanted to cut the next piece of cladding and of course they are standing right inside the mark lol. They also love to be part of activities like going to the toilet, standing in doorways, using power tools and driving the quad bike 😆

Love you so much my two little monkeys!!

03/10/2024

New haircut for Mammoth too ❤️🐑
Unfortunately the battery on the shearers ran out several times so it ended up being an all day job, finishing up with the scissors as it was getting dark. But he was so so good and I'm so proud of him. He let us shear most of him while he just stood there patiently. He's come so so far and it's so precious to see him feeling safe enough to let us do that.

27/09/2024

Holding our girl for her last hours.
Our sweet girl Rā has been living with cancer since we rescued her three and a half years ago. Named after the sun, she's been enjoying life as our precious little ray of light, sunbathing blueberry monster until a couple weeks ago when one of the cancerous cysts burst causing a serious infection around her organs.

She was able to fight the infection, started eating again and was almost ready to leave the hospital when she took a turn for the worse a few days ago and today we confirmed the worst. In the last few days, her cancer has ravaged her body, cutting off blood supply to her crop, blocking her digestive system and attacking her organs including her heart. She is so weak now.

We've loaded her up on all the best pain meds and shes in bed with me on the heated blanket so that she can rest and hopefully pass away peacefully surrounded by love. If she's still with us tomorrow, we will take her for a last trip to the vets as there is nothing else left we can do to protect her.

Of the 16 chickies from that rescue, all but one had palpable tumors. When hens are bred to lay an egg every day, this is what happens. It is so unnatural and absolutely breaks them. Every girl ive ever rescued from the egg industry has battled with cancer and/or Reproductive disorders. This includes hens from free range farms.

This is the last night we will have with our precious girl Rā, because the cancer has now taken too much from her to live.

She will not die without me telling her story because no egg could ever be worth her life, or the suffering and death of the billions of girls I cannot save.

She is resting her head against my chest and the love and the grief are inseparable. My heart is too raw tonight.

It's okay my love, you can let go now and live in the stars free from pain.

It's okay my love. You don't have to fight anymore.

19/09/2024

Happy piggies grazing 🐗🐷🐽💞❤️

04/09/2024

Happy smiley acookie bear wishing you all a happy Thursday 😊🐗🩷

29/08/2024

Photoshoot with lil Remie 💖. Can't believe he will be a year old next month.

Bren super super busy here and I've been slacking on social media bur hope Remie can bring a smile to your day :)
Arohanui ki a koutou

18/08/2024

12 hours on the road, an army of truly incredible humans and 115 lives saved. Hen rescue part 1

So being part of a hen rescue was definitely not part of the plan for our Sunday but I wouldn't change it for the world because these kids are worth it a thousand times over.

The incredible Sally from .farm.sanctuary literally organized an army to save all the hens from culling at a farm in Auckland. The amount of work, organization, blood sweat and tears this takes cannot be understated and I have so much respect for her, and for the team she organized to help. Hens are all culled at 18 months old in the egg industry.

Unfortunately a change of drivers plans meant that 115 of the hens no longer had any way to get from Whangārei to their new homes in Kerikeri. So we hit the road bright and early yesterday morning to tag in and bring the girls to their forever homes.

It was an insane day not getting home until almost 10 and then not to bed until after midnight with one of the rescue girls needing lots of extra care as well as our little Chip and all the kids here. I'm so so grateful to Sally for not only organizing all the rescues, but even helping out with our petrol costs and funds for the day so that we could step in without breaking the bank. These kids would not be alive without her, and the army of volunteers, drivers, adopters, fosterers and so many others.

Personally incredibly shattered with another big day today but holdong so simuch love to everyone involved with this rescue - and to everyone fighting for these kids, and for change.

Arohanui e te whānau ❤️🐔

14/08/2024

Not out of the woods but feeling a lot better - Chip update 💜🐔

Huge thank you to everyone who has been thinking of our little rescue girl Chip.

The first few days were pretty rough, Tuesday night we almost lost her but our sweet little champion fought so hard and is now stable and feeling a lot better.

Her crop is still not working properly which means lots of injections and balancing the meds she needs to keep the raging infection and inflammation in her reproductive system. She gets tired quite quickly bit it's incredibly awesome to see her little spirit shining through, hear her chatting away next to me in the evenings and feeling more like herself again.

Keep fighting my little one. We are here, we love you and you have a whole beautiful community rooting for you.

Arohanui e te whānau 🐔❤️🥹

11/08/2024

Our poor girl Chip isnt well at the moment, and having to be really brave while she fights to get better. Being bred to produce insanely unnatural amounts of eggs has huge effects on these girls. Almost all of the girls we've rescued have serious reproductive system disorders. All of them have cancer.

Little chipmunk isn't giving up though and neither are we. The past few days have meant multiple procedures to flush the infected fluid and yolk from her abdomen, restart her digestive system and she's now on an implant to stop any laying activity as this would be fatal for her. (The yolk can no longer be caught by the oviduct and turned into an egg so it drops into her abdomen causing massive infection affecting multiple organ systems). She is on high dose anti inflammatory to help with pain and stop the build up of solid pus as well as antibiotics and other meds to get her through this.

She has her own temperature controlled heated blanket (so important when any bird is sick!) And her own spot sleeping next to me in bed.

She is a really sweet kiddo who purrs when she gets cuddles and loves to jump onto my leg while I'm cleaning out their house. She is very sick but she is fighting so hard. She wants to live so we will be tight by her side and do everything we can.

Off to the vets today to pick up more meds for her. I wish so badly that she didn't have to go through this. It's so unfair. I've pulled so many girls like her out of the s**t piles where the sick ones are often chucked. I'm grateful she is here with us now but I will never forget the kids suffering on egg farms all around the world. These kids pay the price but it is hidden and nobody sees them. No egg is worth their suffering - and their life.

We've got you my girl. We love you and we are so proud of you.

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Love you always little miss trouble lol Little Eillish has developed a very effective technique to get the bottle before her brother - Louis is super chill but little miss does not like to wait!! They are both thriving though, loving life with their mama Grace who is starting to recover and little Remie (who actually looks so big next to the twins and Grace). #rescuelambs #lambs #animalsanctuary #vegan #bottletime #twins #joy

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That FOMO is so real lol 😅🐃 Offering oranges to our moo kids for some treat time - and some extra vitamin C to boost their immune systems in this winter. They all have their own food preferences - which can always change depending on their mood of course! 🐄🐮🐆🐃🍊 #Shadow #Moony #FOMO #vegan #friendsnotfood #lol #animalsanctuary

Wait til the end 😂. Very real snapshot of life here lol. Sitting with Para on the floor after her treatment session trying to keep up with social media before the tiredness monster takes our brains. And Para helping of course. She was very very keen to tap on all the screens and all the different options. She even chose some of the music lol. She's such a sweet kid who really loves evening cuddles and gives softeyes even when she's going through so much. It amazes me how well she seems to understand that we are helping her and the trust and grace that she gives us - after everything she has suffered at human hands. Para, Dorky and Matariki are all battling serious reproductive disorders at the moment. Today is a big day for Dorky as she's ready to come off one of her meds. Para and Matariki also have secondary complications affecting their crops so they're still needing a lot of extra help but hopefully they'll be feeling better soon. All three of them (plus our Squirmy girl) will need to stay on the suprelorin implant for the rest of their lives as any laying activity would be fatal. While very pricey, it is thankfully a really simple procedure for the girls, similar to having a microchip put in. And if it's not raining, we can stop for some time at the beach on the way to the vets. Anyway, hope you all have a good weekend. #Para #rescuechicken #updates #dayinthelife #sanctuarylife #housechicken #littlehelper #eggshurt #vegan #animallovers

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