Bark and Bray Farm Animal Sanctuary

Bark and Bray Farm Animal Sanctuary A nonprofit animal sanctuary for abused and neglected farm animals. Our mission is to bring animals from surviving to thriving.

The residents live their best lives in the safety of forever sanctuary.

Sybill is still looking for 2 sponsors at $10 a month or $120 a year! She has 2 look-a-like stuffies that need to find a...
12/10/2024

Sybill is still looking for 2 sponsors at $10 a month or $120 a year! She has 2 look-a-like stuffies that need to find a home for the holidays! 🎅 Consider gifting a sponsorship to a friend or loved one. It’s a gift that gives life to the rescued farm animals in our care. Sponsor by Sunday December 15 to ensure Christmas arrival! Read Sybill’s full story in our local paper. 💜 ⭐️ 🐐


Bark & Bray Farm Animal Sanctuary is a charity nonprofit organization providing a forever home to abused and neglected animals in Wilmot. This past June, co-founders Jen and Ben received a cal

Sadly, no animals received any new sponsors on Giving Tuesday. 😞 There was no Giving Tuesday magic happening for the her...
12/04/2024

Sadly, no animals received any new sponsors on Giving Tuesday. 😞 There was no Giving Tuesday magic happening for the herd. We rely on sponsors for covering care costs of feed, vet care, and bedding. We are still hoping to gain 10 new sponsors! Sponsors can give any amount of recurring donation, even as little as $1 a month. When a lot of people give a little, it adds up and makes a big difference.

Sponsors allow our organization to be sustainable, so that we can expand and help even more animals in the future. We took in 3 animals in 2024, which was a big undertaking for us as a small sanctuary. Only 1 was planned (Molly the cow) and 2 were unexpected (Sybill and Lily the goats). This has added more unexpected expenses. Sponsors will help us be successful in 2025 and beyond.

Learn more about us during a recent interview with our local news. Co-founder Jen is interviewed in this clip.

We’ll head over to Wilmot and our Laura James will introduce us to the Bark and Bray Sanctuary Farm.

Bidding closes soon! Did you know we can ship sponsorships and gift certificates anywhere? This includes 2 amazing custo...
11/29/2024

Bidding closes soon! Did you know we can ship sponsorships and gift certificates anywhere? This includes 2 amazing custom pet portraits by artists! Don’t miss out! 🖼️ 🐶 🐈

What is sponsorship?
You pick an animal to sponsor and you are now a big part of their sanctuary life! You get seasonal updates and behind the scenes footage of your animal. A welcome packet with personalized certificate, a letter about the animal and B&B stickers will arrive to your door. The auction adds a deluxe stuffy look-a-like to the welcome packet! You can gift this to anyone. We send it right before Christmas.

There are a lot of other great gifts left with no bids! 100% of your purchase goes towards the care of the animals in sanctuary. Go to our website or link in the comments to join the auction!

1️⃣ week from today is Giving Tuesday. 💛 It’s a day where kindness rules and encourages giving to a cause you support. W...
11/26/2024

1️⃣ week from today is Giving Tuesday. 💛 It’s a day where kindness rules and encourages giving to a cause you support. We have a goal to gain 10 new animal sponsors by the end of 2024 and are kicking off this campaign on Tuesday 12/3. On Giving Tuesday, we will launch mini stuffy look a-likes with the welcome packet for anyone sponsoring at $10 a month or more. These are different than the deluxe stuffies in the auction. A lot of thought went into finding the perfect mini look a-like! There are only 3 of each animal available, so you must act fast on Giving Tuesday. On Tuesday Dec 3, we will reveal these adorable little look a-likes! If you want to see them sooner, then sign up for our newsletter and updates. Link in the comments or our story.

Thank you Spring Ledge Farm for the donation of pumpkins for the animals! The goats, Sybill and Lily really appreciate i...
11/11/2024

Thank you Spring Ledge Farm for the donation of pumpkins for the animals! The goats, Sybill and Lily really appreciate it. ❤️ Don’t worry, hagrid the pig and the cows are also enjoying them! 🎃

Welcome to our 1,500 new Facebook followers! We hit 5,000 followers on Facebook, which is a big deal for a little organi...
11/06/2024

Welcome to our 1,500 new Facebook followers! We hit 5,000 followers on Facebook, which is a big deal for a little organization like us! 🥳 A video of co-founder Ben running to save pasture seed from wild turkeys got over 1 million views! 🤯 We are so happy you found Ben’s antics funny and want to see more of what goes on in sanctuary. We care for abused and neglected farm animals but always like to have fun while doing it.

For those of you that are new here, we wanted to introduce ourselves and share Sybill’s story. Sybill the goat arrived this June and has had a beautiful transformation. In sanctuary, we take animals from surviving to thriving! Sybill is the prime example of our mission. 🐐 ❤️ Watch the video our friends at Cuddle Buddies put together.

https://youtu.be/7Z1RJjYi3Zw

About us: We are a nonprofit charity organization which relies on community support to do this work. We operate on only donations and are 100% volunteer run. No one is paid to do this work. Co-founders Jen and Ben are the main caretakers of the sanctuary herd. Their work started by adopting rescue animals and watching their lives change for the better once they had both their physical and mental needs met. At Bark & Bray, we believe that animals need both physical and emotional needs met to thrive! Bark & Bray has successfully united abused animals that were in need of friends or a herd. Now they live their best lives in the safety of forever sanctuary. Thanks for following along. ❤️

Sybil was found on the highway in terrible condition before the people who found her managed to get her to Bark and Bray Sanctuary. Jennifer wasn’t sure if s...

Help Hagrid win favorite best pet costume by liking his submission! Hagrid the 🐷 policeman had his donuts at his ready 😋...
10/31/2024

Help Hagrid win favorite best pet costume by liking his submission! Hagrid the 🐷 policeman had his donuts at his ready 😋 taken back in 2019. The 🫏 🫏 and Al 🐴 were so well behaved for this nonsense. 🤡 🤣

There are two great ways to support the sanctuary coming up! You can be near or far. ❄️ Locals! You can help us prep for...
10/19/2024

There are two great ways to support the sanctuary coming up! You can be near or far.

❄️ Locals! You can help us prep for winter by volunteering 2 hours of their time on Saturday November 2. We can accomplish so much with multiple helping hands in 2 hours! RSVP required.

🎁 You can donate a silent auction item by mail if you live far away. We are looking for handmade items or crafts, gift baskets, gift cards or experiences/services. This is a great opportunity for businesses to donate. So far, we have 4 amazing businesses donating something in support of the animals.

🏆 Save the date for our 2nd annual online silent auction for your holiday shopping. Bidding opens Saturday November 23 at 9 AM and closes Sunday December 1 at 5 PM EST

💜 Spoiler alert ‼️ Deluxe sponsorships with one of a kind gifts will be available during the auction. If you’ve fallen in love with one of the sanctuary residents, you don’t want to miss this deluxe sponsorship opportunity. Sponsorship can make a great gift while making a difference in the life of that animal.

Today is the last day of Amazon Prime deals! Shop our wish list for the herd. We are prepping for winter and need a few ...
10/09/2024

Today is the last day of Amazon Prime deals! Shop our wish list for the herd. We are prepping for winter and need a few things to make them comfortable. I know it’s not exciting to buy extension cords, but these mean SO much to the animals. They provide heated water that doesn’t freeze and gives the animals a warm belly on cold days. It kind of feels like it does when us humans have a hot tea or coffee on a cold day. ☕️ And unfortunately they have to be the expensive frost proof ones because temps go below freezing most of winter here in NH. 🥶

Thank you to those who bought wish list items already! We appreciate your support so much. You are making an impact on the lives of the animals. 💜

10/07/2024

Lily couldn’t resist touching and breaking the bed! Poor Syb is heartbroken and keeps trying to lay on it. 😅🥹
We have a lot of wish list items to help us prepare for winter. This includes 2 indestructible elevated beds for Sybill. Amazon Prime deals are happening Oct 8 and 9 so it’s a good time to check out our wish list

We really need:
🛏️ 2 elevated beds for the goats…for so many activities! 😉 IFKYK
🐐 Food storage containers so we can safely keep goat feed in the barn. We currently carry 8 bowls over 100 feet from the house to the barn daily due to many meals needing to be soaked. Having safe feed storage in the barn would cut down on 2 bowls!
🔌 Freeze proof outdoor extension cords for heated water buckets. These only last 1 season and usually putter out by April each season.
🎥 3 more WiFi cameras so we can check on the herd easily at any time
⚡️ Solar electric fence charger for the last few weeks of grazing time. The goatie girls are escaping from Queen’s pasture but we want them to enjoy it to the max before ❄️
🥶 Freezer flaps for the barn and shelter openings to keep the animals warm with less drafts

Find this and more on our Amazon Wish List. Link in our bio or stories! Thanks for the support in giving these animals the best life.

🚨 We are extending corn hole registration! You can register day of the event on Saturday September 28 . Check in opens a...
09/27/2024

🚨 We are extending corn hole registration! You can register day of the event on Saturday September 28 . Check in opens at 10 AM and bags fly at 11 AM!

🏆 First place prize is $50 cash 💰for each player and Bark & Bray trucker hats 🧢 🧢

🥈 Second place prize is two $25 LBB gift cards donated by our friends at Little Brothers Burgers 🍔

🛻 The Food Truck Fest will be serving up food from 10 AM to 5 PM! Get ready to picnic 🧺 with blankets and chairs on this gorgeous field. The weather for Saturday looks perfect and the foliage is starting! ⛅️ 🍁 Skip the line and get your tickets early!

We hope to fill the field for the animals! We have utilized our general care fund for adding another resident 🐐 (Lily!), August and September Veterinary care and for 14 round bales of hay for the cows. The total of this comes to $2,262.77. We need to replenish our funds to continue to support animal care. Supporting this event gives animal care to all the sanctuary residents. 💜

Can we get meet our $2,000 goal? We are at $465!

Thank you to our business sponsor Dulcee Loehn a certified business coach, trainer and Speaker of FocalPoint. She is allowing all of the proceeds to come to the animals.

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☎️ Calling all Corn Hole and Food Truck Enthusiasts!!! Our Event is coming up on Saturday September 28!🏆 We need Corn Ho...
09/21/2024

☎️ Calling all Corn Hole and Food Truck Enthusiasts!!! Our Event is coming up on Saturday September 28!

🏆 We need Corn Hole players! Don’t forget to register by Thursday 9/26.

🤤Plus there are 5️⃣ Food Trucks making breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert 🍨 delights! Come for just the food trucks or both! They will be open 10 AM to 5 PM. Skip the line and buy your tickets in advance online. We are accepting cash, card, PayPal or Venmo at the door for admission. 💯 % of your ticket goes towards the animals!

🧺 Get ready to picnic on a gorgeous field at Located behind the library and science center. It’s a perfect fall activity! 🍁 Bring chairs and blankets to get comfy.

🎟️ Check out the raffle table for fun prizes!

❤️ Fun fact…co-founders Jen and Ben got married on this very field 9 years ago! So yes, it’s a beautiful spot…and has stunning views of Mt Kearsarge. 😍

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Coming to Sanctuary is the sweetest little goatie girl! She is going to be Sybill’s BFF! 👯‍♀️ Lily has had a rough start...
09/14/2024

Coming to Sanctuary is the sweetest little goatie girl! She is going to be Sybill’s BFF! 👯‍♀️

Lily has had a rough start to life, just like Sybill. She was in a hoarding situation of over 100 animals, over 40 of which were goats. They were in deplorable conditions among deceased and decaying animals. Female goats can become pregnant as young as 8 weeks old. Sadly, this was Lily’s fate. She has spent most of her life pregnant or feeding her baby, which is not fair for a young goat. Her growth is certainly stunted by poor nutrition. Unfortunately she has been bullied by every goat herd she has been with. We are hoping that with just 2 goats this will be different. Plus our Sybill is a docile goat who thinks she is a dog. Lily also thinks she is a dog and spent time in foster hanging out with a dog while delivering her kid. We feel their age and temperaments match and hope to see them grow up together. 🌱

Lily deserves a soft landing in forever sanctuary. By sponsoring, you can secure this for her. Sponsors will get the first look at her new life in sanctuary before the public. AND the first 3 people to sponsor at $10 a month or $120 a year or more will get a Lily plushie with their welcome packet. Learn about the benefits of sponsorship on our website.

Come say hi 👋 to us Sunday at Wilmotpalooza! We will have a cattle roping station for kids and adults to try. This is on...
09/05/2024

Come say hi 👋 to us Sunday at Wilmotpalooza! We will have a cattle roping station for kids and adults to try. This is on a dummy. 🐮 We also have NEW B&B stickers! 🤩

We only rope the cows when necessary for their safety and vet care. This is needed because 2 out of 3 of our cows are unhandled and basically feral. 😅 When a 2000 lb animal doesn’t want their vaccines, you must be able to get them done for their wellbeing. We have to be able to safely contain them when necessary and roping is working for us. ♥️

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Wilmot, NH
03287

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https://linktr.ee/barkandbrayfarm

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