Alcheringa Sanctuary

24/12/2025

Happy Christmas from all of us to all of you. We hope at least some of you will be having a compassionate Christmas this year, with no suffering on your plates 🌱. Special thanks to those of you who have graciously supported us this year with a donation - we couldn't do it without you!:

Mary & Georgina
Petronella
Gosia
Sharon
Michele
David
Natasha
Claire & Bec
Elizabeth
Dionne
Liz
Eva
Pierre
Wendy
Kourtnie
Kate & Michael

🎄🌱🎄🌱🎄🌱🎄

21/12/2025

I think Milo has been into the mineral lick - look at those orange lips! 💋

20/12/2025

Look at Freddy and Westie, eager to head up to the big field for grazing. Some days they prefer to stay in their home field, some days they are insistent on going elsewhere. They have distinct preferences. They are sentient. Sentient beings have the right to live their lives without interference. Be vegan.

19/12/2025

All of our hens are red, part from Grace. I don't think Grace's black feathers are the reason she is the leader, nor do I think it's because she is by far the oldest. I think it is due to the sheer force of her personality. Grace likes to get up on the top roost and lecture the others at length, very loudly! We don't know how old she is - she has been with us for almost 5 years, but we are at least her third home. No matter when she was born, she is far older than hens in the egg and flesh industries are ever allowed to reach - hens in these industries are killed by the age of 18 months, while male chicks in the egg industry are killed the day they are born, by barbaric methods such as shredding while alive. Perhaps Grace's lectures are about this, or perhaps she is simply expressing how happy she is to have her life, where she is protected, respected and given daily treats. Don't participate in cruelty to chickens. Be vegan.

18/12/2025

My phone offered up this 2025 highlight reel. So many gorgeous people here, all of them enjoying their lives. Support the rights of sentient beings. Be vegan - it's easy, healthy, environmentally sustainable, kind and the right thing to do.

16/12/2025

We've finally got a fine day forecast, and the girls are keen to get out onto the mountain and dry off in the sun!

13/12/2025

Look at Freckle's face. She has an assertive and stern bearing, which shows in her expression and posture. She knows she has rights and she expects us to respect them, and we do. Freckles is very intelligent and observant, and knows how to read any situation to have advanced warning of any danger, or of any treats on the horizon. Freckles was the first sheep I ever met, and I was blown over by her personality and intelligence. She is a person with rights, just like all of her kind. If you are not vegan, you are not respecting those rights. Be vegan.

11/12/2025

When we first started running Eden we were not vegan. We began quite by accident when we took in two orphaned lambs. Our transition to veganism began when we first noticed that those lambs had the same sense organs as us. Like us they have eyes, ears, a nose, and mouth. They can see, hear, taste, smell and experience touch, just like we can. We noticed how they used their senses to communicate with each other, with us, and with their world. It became abundantly clear that their experience of their world was not very different to ours. Like us, they experienced stress and pain. Like us, they valued their lives.

You only have to look at Aengus' face to see that he is not an inanimate, unfeeling being. In every way that matters, he is like us and, as a result, he shares our fundamental right to life, to not be the property of someone else, to not be used as a commodity, to not be harmed or killed.

Veganism is the living manifestation of respect for the rights of other animals. Please do some research today and consider going vegan. It will change your life in so many positive ways but, more importantly, it will radically change the lives of the animals who are used, harmed and killed in the tens of billions every year for products that we do not need.

https://goveganworld.com/download-your-free-vegan-guide/

10/12/2025

We have known Tumbles since a few minutes after her birth. We watched her go from a tiny, loud and extremely fast baby, zooming about the fields so fast it was impossible to capture her speed on camera, to a quiet, adult sheep. Perhaps because she remains so close to her mum, I tend to always think of her as a young sheep. It's therefore been a shock recently to see her become stiff in her legs. We've had to accept the fact that she is now an older sheep, and requires joint supplements, like her mum and dad. Thankfully, daily glucosamine supplements are easy to administer and very effective in sheep, as they are in humans. It breaks my heart that Tumbles, like all the animals at the sanctuary, have much shorter lifespans than we do, and that one day we will have to grieve her loss. But we are happy to know that unlike almost all her kind, Tumbles will actually have had a full lifespan and been treated with dignity, respect and love, her rights acknowledged and her needs met. Tumbles is a person, just like every sheep. Just like you. Be vegan.

04/12/2025

The main flock are keen to come home for a very icy, full moon evening.

01/12/2025

01/12/2025

Monday morning kiss from Riley. Riley is affectionate with us, but shy of strangers. Perhaps this is because the first humans he knew intended to leave him in a shed to die, because they wanted his mother's milk to be used elsewhere. Thankfully he was rescued by a vegan and brought to us. The stories we tell of the way our residents have been treated by their original guardians are not rare exceptions, they are typical of the way the flesh industry views and treats non-human animals. If you give money to animal agriculture industries, you are paying for these routine actions. Be one less person hurting animals, be vegan.