 Hello everybody, welcome back to the channel. Today we're here with Chloe, we're at Farm Sanctuary and we're gonna say hi to some animals. I'm super excited, super excited. We're so excited to have you here. Do you want to give the origin story? So Farm Sanctuary is the nation's founding farm animal rescue organization. We were founded in 1986 by our two founders who in the beginning it was an all-volunteer organization that was partially funded by selling vegan hot dogs out of a VW van at Grateful Dead concerts and since then we've grown to become one of the nation's leading farm animal protection and rescue organizations. We operate two sanctuaries, one in Watkins Glen, New York and upstate New York and the one that we're at right now in Acton, California, Southern California, yeah and combined the sanctuaries have given shelters to thousands of farm animals over the years but before we were rescuing animals we first started sort of like as an investigative organization or detective work. Detective work, exactly. Yeah so our two founders would go into farms and stockyards, take photos and videos of what they saw to educate the public about how farm animals were being treated in our food system. Now one day they were walking around a stockyard and they came upon a dead pile which is exactly what it sounds like. It's a pile of animals who've died and they've been thrown away because they passed away before they could be sold, right? So when they saw this they wanted to take a photo of it you know to show people that this kind of practice was commonplace in agriculture. Now as they were taking the picture a sheep in the pile lifted her head up and she was still alive. I'm sorry what year was this? This was 1986. Oh wow. Yeah yeah um so they took the sheep off the pile they brought her to a veterinarian thinking that she'd probably die because she was in terrible condition. Yeah but after only 30 minutes she started to feel better, she stood up, she was even walking around, turns out that she was just really dehydrated. So even her most basic needs weren't being met. But after she got some water, some veterinary care, she made a quick recovery, our founders brought her home, they gave her the name Hilda and it was her rescue that actually inspired them to start a farm animal sanctuary which as far as we know is the very first of its kind. That's awesome. Well right out of the gate and this will be in the description. Is there a place that people can go to help donate or just help out in any any way? Absolutely yeah So our website is farmsanctuary.org. There you can make donations, learn about how you can visit us, learn about our events and ways that you can get involved and then if you want to follow us on social media I know our Instagram is very is very popular and yeah so just at Farm Sanctuary. Sweet. Hell yeah. Well let's meet some animals. I'm so excited. Yeah me too. We're excited to have you here. We were just talking right before this of why this video is happening and Chloe was like yeah what was your idea? What did you want to do? And I was like I just wanted to see some animals. That's kind of it. That's really all. I just like animals a lot and yeah and obviously you guys are doing some incredible work so yeah let's see some let's see some. Let's do it. We have some pretty phenomenal souls here so our goats can be a little more on the shy side which is sometimes surprising for people who know goats because you know goats have a reputation for being very playful but a lot of our goats here in their golden years you'll notice they're up there on the hill a lot of them relaxing. There's Randy up there who we suspect that he might be one of the oldest goats alive. He's about 19 years old. Wow. How old do goats usually go? Like usually in max around 17. Okay. Yeah yeah yeah. So is it okay to pet any of the animals? Yeah for sure and thank you so much for asking. Yeah so here at the sanctuary we you know try to remember that we are guests in the animals home and due to the neglect and abuse that so many of them have experienced some of them are really nervous around humans so we believe here you know that we should honor their agency in choosing whether or not they want to interact with us or guests but there are many outgoing animals. Alice is among them so Alice is one of my favorite residents here right now she's working on that salt lick. Hi Alice. It's nice to meet you. How should I greet a goat? Oh that's a good question. Yeah I think you just start by saying hello and then if you want to give her a pet on her back or her neck oh sometimes they're like cheek and chin scratches forehead scratches so you can get in there. My girlfriend is really really upset because she had a thing that she had to do today that couldn't be rescheduled but she really wanted to come so we might have to do a part two. Oh I love that. Sometime later on. I love that. But yeah she had a goat in her neighborhood growing up. Really? Yeah. Alice you're great how old is Alice? Yeah I'm not sure about her age but I can tell you that she was rescued a few years ago she was born to a like a very small farm and the owner of the farm he suspected that she had this disease that is highly communicable to other goats and is deadly if they get it so he was actually just just just gonna shoot her he was just gonna euthanize her into shooter. His daughter-in-law loved Alice she had really bonded with her so she was really upset when she heard this so she asked if he would let her release Alice to sanctuary and he said yes so that's how she wound up here we tested her for that disease and she doesn't even have it. It was just like a few strokes of wild luck and now she's here and out of the food system which is cool. Yeah so four people that might be in this community slash in Southern California if they have animals that they need to you know depending on the circumstances re-home what's the process like for that? That's a great question yeah so we do get yeah a fraction of our animals from folks who are re-homing we usually ask them to go through our farm animal adoption network so it's we have a team of folks that work on placing animals so we are almost always at capacity at our sanctuaries just because we want to have enough room and resources to give each individual the care and attention that they need right so when spots do open up of course we fill them but then most of the time we can't even take the animals that people are reaching out to us for so that's why we have this network and it's like thousands of people all over the country who you know have loving homes who don't want to use these animals for food they want to treat them as you know family members companions and we also work with other farm animal sanctuaries and together those sanctuaries and loving homes we are able to place thousands more animals than we would normally be able to rescue right that's awesome yeah it's great that's really cool it's a pretty cool program you keep working on that salt lick yeah we're gonna keep working on it so just before we leave the goat area let me tell you a couple more stories here yeah who do we have up here we need to know right um so Erica she was actually born here now we don't have a lot of white one in the middle yeah yeah the one standing with the brown face we don't have a lot of animals who are who are typically born here because we don't do any breeding here but when a pregnant animal gets rescued their baby will be born here right so when we rescued her mother her mother Claire came from a very small farm where these animals were so neglected they were like starving they're being fed like table scraps and moldy bread and yeah like their babies were being killed with an ear shot on the eyesight of them that's really horrible yeah so they came here really traumatized and malnourished her mother Claire was so um emaciated that we didn't even know that she was pregnant and then one day we went into her little barn and there was maybe Erica so she's she's only ever known sanctuary here which is really amazing do goats only give birth to one they sometimes have twins I feel like but there's not like a litter of goats there's not a litter of goats yeah it's usually one or two I think sometimes they can have triplets but don't quote me on that I think this whole video is just going to be me giggling that's okay can I feed Alice some hay yeah go for it Alice would you like to eat some hay from my hand would you like some hay oh no she's like I think I'd rather have a pet you'd rather have pets you can get those two you have both if you want yeah all right Alice we'll come back do you want this it's here if you want it Alice all right it's gonna be some pigs how much land do you guys have here that's a good question um so which I ask like I know I know right thanks I don't know I mean in my opinion it's a lot 10 acres I know it's over that it's over that no uh yeah yeah please don't quote me on it okay um but I know it's under I'm pretty sure it's under 100 acres or around 100 acres but our New York sanctuary I know for a fact has 275 acres that sounds like a lot it's a lot like you need like 200 acres a lot it sounds like it sounds like a lot of land pigs yeah Lucas got bit by a pig oh great we get some exposure therapy today for you Lucas hi friends here we have Von D oh and Morris and you know what Morris has a little scratch on his face I'm gonna call shelter and see what that's about cool in second okay cool so he thinks that these two actually got no little tussle this morning are these regular pigs that's a great question because in my mind pigs are way smaller than this that's a great question yeah so are they cool with being Pat yeah they are let me say hello to them first and how best to approach a sleeping pig is to start at their rear um and let them know that you're human that you just want to give them some love today you don't want to go for their face because they don't have great visibility they might think that you're another pig encroaching on their sleeping territory hey Morris oh he's gonna roll over for a belly rub oh Morris Morris is my favorite pig he's stretching like my dog be all right yeah isn't he special he's great he's great she sometimes rolls over too let me see maybe not today yeah she's relaxing this is Von D yeah so she's the major she's also the biggest one in our herd she's about 800 pounds is that what it's called a herd of pigs herd of pigs yeah she's not even the biggest one that i've ever seen here we used to have one in Macy who passed away she was even larger than Von D um but we oftentimes get people very surprised about how big the pigs are and how big some of the other species are too and that's because you know a lot of the time when people encounter pigs they're encountering like a potbelly pig yeah you know smaller pigs and then when people do see these breeds of pigs these breeds that are typically raised for food we only really see them as babies because they're slaughtered around six months old what breed of pig is this she's a Yorkshire a Yorkshire pig yeah yeah in my mind pigs are like dog size yeah this is a big dog yeah really big she is a big yeah she's very big dog she's like a small bear or something to me Morris can i give you a belly rub yeah go for it let me get out of your way look at you bud so how old are these guys so Von D she came to us in around 2017 i mean she was a piglet then so she's like about five is that old for a pig pigs here at sanctuary can live to be around 10 or 11 years old but in the food system they will either be slaughtered when they're like they're still babies or for like the breeding sows for the female pigs that are used to to make more piglets they're typically killed at just a few years old so that's so sad yeah um what is the white stuff behind that's a great question um so this is actually sunscreen so we have yeah so we have selectively bred pigs to be pale because dark skin leaves dark pigments on the meat which consumers find unappetizing to eat um so that's why you know pigs oftentimes are pink or very like colored which is not a problem for their skin when they live their lives you know entirely indoors on factory farms but here at the sanctuary they're able to sunbathe um so we need to protect them from skin cancer but Morris uh because he has darker skin we don't put sunscreen on his ears these guys are great they are great guys this is the ideal life it is just sleeping yeah they nap a lot they also go hiking up in these hills when the weather's nice a little hike yeah they root around they're kind of like architects of their environment they'll make they're like little landscapers basically yeah they're cool I love these guys I know they're oh look at those little feet if you want we can see if there are any other pigs at the farm yeah cool how long have you been here great question so I actually first came here as a guest on a tour cool um in 2015 and I loved it so much that I begged them to let me volunteer here uh and then I volunteered here for about two and a half years and then that inspired me to get involved in farm animal protection as a career so I've been I've been coming here in one way or another since 2015 cool yeah and I love it people work here so for the whole organization we have I think it's approaching 100 people but for folks that just work on site here around 12 or 13 so where are we going now so we're gonna go up to see the bovine the cattle oh yeah the cows are pretty fantastic and on the way we're gonna pause and and say hello to the horses we are gonna admire the horses so our horses are pretty shy um it's it's unlikely that they'll come up and say hello oh but this one right here that we're approaching first is my favorite her name is Joanne and she's really special she has a really compelling story a sad story but it has a happy ending because she's here yeah so she was likely someone's you know pet horse and horses of course are very expensive to take care of so when people fall in hard times oftentimes the horses you know they lose their home and they need to be rehomed um so her family ended up giving her up and um she was sold at an auction and she was sold to a company that harvests something called pre-marine it's pregnant horse urine so they were breeding her keeping her in install all day and collecting her urine to be used for um medication for menopause and then when she was considered useless or spent there she was auctioned off again and she wound up at a rodeo where they were doing something which is illegal here it's called horse tripping it's where they lasso the feet of the horse and then trip them that's so sad so you'll notice like one of her front knees is like very yeah kind of bulbous and from all the the fractures that happen there so when she got here she was incredibly shy and she is still very shy she actually has a horse gentler that comes um pretty frequently to to give her therapy that's like a horse whisper kind of yeah and yeah that's awful yeah yeah but she's made a lot of uh progress and healing here and we're really lucky to have her she's very gentle soul you're doing great joanne she's doing great i love the theme with farm animals that most farm animals have human names yeah i've noticed that a lot i really love that for the most part they do some of our chickens have some like funky names but who's this back here oh that is zoe and she is joanne's best friend hi zoe and then darla i think might be in the little barn there oh you guys have donkeys we do we have some really cute ones i haven't been up close with a cow in a really long time oh nice well we'll certainly get a really big they are yeah these guys are especially big this is honky tonk he's a fantastic host he likes to come and greet people is he a donkey he's a donkey hi he's very lovable and very loving aren't you always coming right for the camera oh he wants to see jocelyn it's great to meet you but yeah he's he's pretty special how old is he he's definitely at least in his 20s he does really like to greet people he does jocelyn he really likes you oh he's a ladies man okay so when we're in with these guys just a few safety things um we want to approach them slowly and from the side we don't want to walk standard position ourselves directly in front or behind them because they can't see us there always be aware of where they're moving because they're of course enormous send some of them move really quickly like soffin for example the tallest guy he's like wildly quiet and fast when he's walking so you just want to be aware of your surroundings sometimes cows will swing their heads or swish their tails to swat away flies or to let us know that they'd rather be left alone so just be conscious of that if you're standing close and then we do have a few folks in here that we're not going to approach today including leo the all brown cow who's laying down okay he's like a big puppy dog he's an adolescent he takes any interaction as a sign that you want to play and playing to him light brown or the dark brown the light brown right there okay in the middle yeah so even just looking at him or talking to him he'll be like you want to go and he'll try to mount you which is really dangerous so we're not gonna yeah he's incredibly sweet he's incredibly loving and it breaks my heart that we can't interact with him but just for his own safety he's a little horny he is who he is he's an adolescent it's all right but and then the all black cows they have a really interesting story a very powerful story that i can't wait to share with you but you'll understand why we're not going to approach them either yeah how do we approach them again slowly and from the side so let's go meet saffron first he's the he's the most outgoing of our herd here so we're going to meet the biggest boy the biggest boy he's actually the patriarch of the herd oh he's the protector he takes care of everybody he has been with us since he was one day old oh so we bottle fed him here hi buddy so saffron he was born to the dairy industry now a lot of people don't realize that cows need to be pregnant or nursing in order to produce milk just like humans or any other mammal so to keep their production up cows on dairy farms are reimpregnated about once a year and then the babies are separated from the mom so that the milk can be sold to humans since the male cows won't produce milk they're seen as useless so they are sold to be raised for beef or for veal which is how we came to take saffron in i don't mean to interrupt you yeah no you're fine this is a normal size yeah that's a good question um so not really um in our food system typically we never allow these animals to grow into adulthood so here at the sanctuary where he's able to reach you know nine years old as he is now big tongue he's enormous he's he's about six foot three at his hip i feel like i'm a kid going back to like my elementary school or i'm an adult going back to my elementary school and i'm like wow it's the reverse though where it's like wow everything is really small now it's like wow these animals are way bigger than my brain thought they were you're really tall yeah he is very and he's not even the tallest one that we ever had the tallest one we ever had he was six foot seven at his hip he is a very strong relationship with our shelter director named jess she bottle fed him you know they've been friends since he was just tiny um i love your ears and a few years ago we had rescued a cow who was really traumatized humans didn't do well with humans even our caregivers so our caregivers would have to work in teams to make sure that they were always safe when they were in with the cattle well one day jess found herself in a position that was kind of tricky she could tell that the traumatized cow wanted her to leave the area um so she tried to find a way out um unfortunately wasn't fast enough and the upset cow started to charge her which is of course very dangerous yeah instinctively jess yelled saffron's name and saffron heard her came running over put himself in between jess and the upset cow protected her from any danger yeah and just made sure that she was safe until she was out of the area he's got an itch or something i was afraid yeah i know you're fine he's like trying to figure out really isn't he huge he's really really big and i'm not gonna lie i'm very intimidated yeah i mean it makes sense he's huge he's huge he's a big love aren't you i think that this kind of stuff and i don't know if what we're doing is a very special occasion um like i don't know how much people come and interact this closely with the animals yeah yes yeah so we do have tours every weekend oh cool yeah we have um similar to what we're doing right now exactly yeah yeah yeah um that's so important except there are you know 15 people here instead of just you guys but yeah that's so important though because i think it's it's really cool to see these animals up close it is it's very special you get a lot of perspective he's so pretty and he's so big i know he's such a love and sorry how old is he he's nine which is pretty old for a cat um he's like about like middle age so the females can live can live a little longer i know like a giant cat tongue right yeah i can ethan kiss this kiss kiss for ethan you are just kind of like a big dog big puppy feels nice a nice chin scratch feels good oh how much does he weigh they can weigh to be like he's probably over 2500 pounds is it safe to stand next to him yes yeah totally yeah go for it so here's some um scale for you um he's so big big guy i like you a lot good friend good friend well we'll come back to you a little later say hi again it was really nice to meet you thank you so much for the kisses your tongue feels a little weird but i like you a lot he's cool this guy with the horns yeah this is cowboy cowboy yeah is he safe to approach he is yeah he's he's very outgoing if he starts to stand up we're gonna just give him some room okay he loves human affection for the most part if he you know feels like he has an itch or has some flies he's gonna shake his head which of course is a little bit intimidating with the horns yeah go for it hi buddy yeah he's a big love too you're a really cool guy you're a really cool guy hi buddy you like too you're doing a little bit but this is so cool he was rescued by a different animal sanctuary and they had adopted him out to a family but they didn't do an amazing job of figuring out you know the kind of home that he was going into those folks didn't feed him correctly and he also wasn't he didn't live with any other cattle um and they're incredibly social animals they really thrive when they're with you know other cattle so when that family could no longer take care of him they reached out to us to see if we could um give him a new home we very enthusiastically said yes he came here and he saw the other cows and he was literally jumping for joy he was like he was dancing it was very cool it's so cute yeah i love that yeah the cows really love each other so um when they get older of course with their size they can be challenging on their bodies they can get really arthritic and they have this this huge pasture up there that they need to climb this hill to get into and when a cow gets older and is so arthritic that they can no longer walk up that hill the other cattle won't go into the back pasture either and we'll stay with them down here that's so they will be alone yeah it's very very cool very nice to me but i would love to tell you the story about two cows that we have yes in june of 2021 around 41 cows escaped a slaughterhouse south of downtown downtown la downtown la yeah and like pico revera area which is a little bit south of downtown there's this big well there are a few slaughterhouses and there's a very big beef slaughterhouse there and a gate was left open 41 cows escaped and they were like running through the streets literally running for their lives right because these animals are so intuitive they can sense what's going to happen to them in these places so animal control and the police and some of the workers were like rounding up these cows to send them back to the slaughterhouse to be slaughtered there meanwhile civilians were like capturing footage of this on their phones right it was very dramatic it was making like national news then they had rounded up all the cows except where there was one who had escaped capture for like 24 hours or something and when they finally captured her that event was so it was so dramatic it's kind of hard footage to watch to be honest because she's just obviously very scared activists had rallied behind her release to sanctuary so we were able to rescue her and bring her here her name is june is this june right here he's looking at us very pretty june she's so lovely um and then she was being isolated in this back this like far pasture away from all the other animals just to like recover and decompress and then a week later we get a call that there was another cow who had walked 12 miles and had been living just like been concealing herself for for a whole week living in a park under a bridge she's over there right now she's one of the black cows over there but yeah she had abated people for a whole week um and then when she was captured she was also brought here the two of them moved in together into that into that far pasture um and became best friends and they like you know watched over each other groomed each other and then now they're a part of this community and they've and they've blended in very well that's so cool yeah they're really cool in in the beginning for like months this would be impossible us standing this close to them yeah they probably like would have run away but um that's so sad i know so glad you guys are here now just chilling with everybody special do you want to meet some birds yeah let's meet some birds while we make our way to the birds um it's incentive to donate if people donate to farm sanctuary what is what does the money go to i mean again great no that's a great question it is obvious and then not obvious it's because we do have many programs so um of course donations will be funneled here to take care of the animals it will be funneled to placing more animals and loving homes across the country it also gets funneled into different areas of our work so we don't just do rescue we also do legal advocacy farm sanctuary was one of the very first organizations that worked on passing laws to protect farm animals and to improve treatment of animals in our food system we have you know like a team of lawyers who work on like welfare laws to improve the treatment of farm animals and also of farm workers and yeah protecting their rights because they are also abused in the system and what else do we do we have a education department that reaches students all across the country with not just the stories of our animals and the way that farm animals are treated in our food system but with information on how our entire food system impacts all these different communities and farm workers because they're exploited all over the country and also how our food system impacts the environment because it's as it is right now extremely unsustainable yeah yeah we do a lot of stuff we also have like a youth activist group so like for any teenagers that are out there that want to get involved i help run this um this group called the youth leadership council of yeah just like teens who want to make our food system better and they're they're awesome and then um is what i'm sharing too dark no i feel like a lot of what i'm talking about is pretty dark very good to have that okay perspective cool so what kind of birds are we going to see we are going to see chickens and turkeys yeah yeah chickens and turkeys so at our other sanctuary in upstate new york because they get rain like we hardly ever do here they can have water birds too like ducks and geese but here uh because it's drier we have turkeys and chickens cool and we have some really unique chickens i think they're kind of that they're going to blow your mind a little bit there i have pretty special like a mixed feeling on chicken not a feeling on chickens but like i'm a little afraid of chickens that's not uncommon i meet a lot of people here who are at least a little bit afraid of chickens yeah so let's see who we can meet first they're a little wild right now they're seeing josh their caregiver oh yeah so i think they're yeah they're pretty amped we're gonna get to see them in some room yeah no we can see they're so excited to see you i've never seen the turkeys so thrilled let's uh go in and be with the chickens because these um our turkeys here they seem to be pretty amped up and i want to give them a second to relax a little yeah excuse me friends hello hi hi guys yeah there's a little little tiny oh yeah that's a little hunter you just met our biggest resident saffron this is our smallest resident little hunter she weighs less than a pound and she's fully grown she's fully grown yeah so her breed is called a silky bantam so that's like sort of like a mixed purebred chicken so silky's they have those very soft-looking feathers those very fine feathers and then bantam is the breed that they mix with other breeds to make a miniature version of a chicken so you're so small yeah she's she's she's our teensiest how should i approach a chicken great question um slowly it's nice to get down on their level a little bit because chickens are prey animals so they don't like being approached or pet from above if you want to put a little food in your hand to offer to them you can now just as a heads up the white chickens that i don't know why but for some reason their breed is a little more aggressive when they eat yeah um so just as a heads up how yeah the other ones won't be as aggressive like the red star is a little gentler right yeah yeah you're way gentler yeah you eat so delicately yeah very delicate you not so much yeah i i don't know what it is we haven't figured it out so how many how many chickens do you guys have probably around 50 chickens combined what kind of chicken is that guy um he's a polish roux with the hair so he's actually our flock leader his name is david bowie and then his best friend is around here too his best friend is rod steward and he is oh there's rod steward oh rod what's up my god and together they are the flock leaders and it's funny because they're definitely not the biggest roosters but they must just command the most respect yeah because yeah yeah it has to be the hair the powers in the hair it's like regina george what they say and she's dust bathing right now and they're really grooming her and so chickens dust bathe um they take dust baths instead of like water baths the dust it gets in between their feathers and it like pushes out pests oh okay yeah so that's how they stay clean and this is the coop yes this is the coop yeah you can peek your head inside we typically don't allow people in because it's like their private space but you can see where they hang out they have like their little nesting boxes and stuff they play the piano they do sometimes so yeah we try to give them lots of enrichment here we put in these trees several months ago and when we put the trees in they sort of held these like chicken olympic games where they would jump up to see like who could get the tallest leaf off the tree it was very cute we have a bunch of rabbits in our yard and wild rabbits and we saw them i bought some night vision goggles and we saw them playing games with each other so one would run at the other and they would just hop over each other and then switch it was like leap frog oh my god it was so cute it was adorable that is so cute yeah i love seeing animals play oh that's okay i'm so sorry oh that's okay i offended her no i'm sure you didn't anybody want food food so at night do they all go in the coop they do yeah so at night in in the evening all of our animals are put into the barns and the doors are closed so that they can be safe at night nice yeah it's so good meeting you guys yeah they're all very pretty especially what's the little one's name again little hunter little hunter little hunter i really like you a lot yeah she's a fan favorite for sure she's a cult following this one oh you're so small guys make sure to go in the description and give a donation for little hunter okay thank you how old is little hunter so i don't know how old she is or how what her life expectancy is i know for like these chickens it's gonna be around eight years old but for the chickens that i'm about to show you it's about one to three years old yeah excuse me with all the hints yeah do any of them lay eggs yeah yeah for the most part they all do because it's just a natural part of their like cycle but they're gonna be like unfertilized eggs and we'll just collect them in the morning and stuff like that um i think our chickens even get like birth control really yeah wow how does that work i'm not really sure we josh would be able to speak to it a little bit better than me a chipmunk oh oh a little ground squirrel yeah yeah yeah they definitely uh coexist here it was symbiotic relationship yeah they probably like the food yeah i'm sure they do at the new york shelter um deer oftentimes live with our cattle oh and they'll like give birth to their babies in the cow pasture and then like leave their babies there while they go get food in the forest yeah bad chickens it was nice to meet you goodbye friends so where are we going now so we're gonna go see some of our turkeys oh yeah and some of our other chickens so the chickens that we just met were largely rescued from the egg industry okay now these chickens are rescued from the meat industry okay um so you'll notice their breed looks entirely different their build is much bigger yeah um so chickens in the egg industry have been selectively bred to produce you know as many eggs as possible per year these chickens have been selectively bred to grow as quickly and as large as they possibly can so you see their their build is really different yeah they're a bit more plump yeah yeah there's some plump ladies so that's why they typically have a shorter life expectancy now what's so funny to me is that so in that bigger aviary that we were just in the flock leaders are two polish crested roosters and it's the same in here we have steven and king so i don't know what it is about that breed yeah steven and king steven and king yeah exactly named after steven king i grew up in me oh did you oh nice oh okay so over here we have thelma who's running um and then serena right there hello um yeah yeah so so these two turkeys they are both heritage breed birds so they more closely resemble wild turkeys with the color of other feathers even though they're much bigger than wild turkeys yeah now most turkeys who are raised for food don't look anything like these girls most turkeys who are raised for food have been selectively bred to be completely white for the same reasons that the pigs have been selectively bred to be pink uh because the colorful feathers the dark pigments on the skin right yeah but these girls are amazing so they're um they're normally kind of snuggly but they're eating right now so they're so they're gonna be a little preoccupied they're having a little yeah they're having a little salad time and how old are these guys her uh old best friend who passed away like last year and serena they were rescued in like 2018 so they're just a few years old thelma came after so i think she's a little bit younger yeah um but yeah they're they're amazing so you'll notice on serena she's been de-beaked and detowed so that's really common for turkeys on farms because of the overcrowding in these farms they'll get frustrated yeah they'll get frustrated with each other they'll take it out on each other and that's a concern for the farmer because they're damaging each other's flesh right so rather than giving the birds more space they will opt to cut off the tips of the beaks and the tips of the toes when they're just babies without any sort of pain relief that's so sad yeah that's so sad yeah but even despite everything she's been through she's an incredibly loving individual she's she's very affectionate and something that i love that i didn't know until i started spending time here a lot of species like music and enjoy music it's not just humans of course but i never knew how much turkeys love music um they really really love music um so i play guitar and i sing and during the pandemic for my job part of what i did is i made children's songs and we recorded them and put them on youtube and um turkeys love music they'll like come up and they'll they'll crowd around me when i'm playing that's so cool it's like cows with jazz have you seen that no i haven't there's but the turkeys they'll like try to play my guitar with me sometimes they'll sing along never on like in the right key yeah yeah yeah you gotta work on that that's okay yeah you guys enjoy your salad enjoy your salad friends meeting you guys okay cool so we're gonna go see our sheep next sheep how many different species of animals do you get the new york shelter because it's so much bigger um they have some more species than we do um but i'll give you my list here so we have goats pigs cattle donkeys horses chickens turkeys sheep and one llama and you said the llama deters the coyotes that we were saying yeah yeah exactly so we're obviously in a desert environment here there are lots of coyotes all around and coyotes were showing up trying to you know make meals of our residents and we obviously want to protect the ones that we love so we found on craigslist there was a llama being listed for free of course everyone was concerned about him because the animals are listed for free on craigslist that's very bad omen for them you know he might have even been used for food um so he needed rescue the llama oh yeah i didn't know that people eat llamas i mean the heat he could have been oh i don't know yeah it's just a it's a risk right yeah so he needed rescue and we you know needed someone to help watch over our um our flock of sheep and goats so he is like sort of the bouncer here he patrols up there oh i see him now yeah his name is yoda yoda yeah we'll get a better view of him in here too hello hello friends you have a jacket on hi friends sheep are pretty they like attention and stuff yeah yeah sometimes yeah it kind of depends how they were raised like a lot of people come here for tours and they're like wow your sheep are so outgoing sheep have always been so shy around me so i think it kind of depends on their environment here they are very outgoing this is nina hi nina she's a great ambassador here who's the one with the jacket oh that's regina so she yeah so she um it's to protect a sore on her chest um so she has uh three legs she had a leg amputated when she was a baby she suffered a very bad leg fracture yeah so yeah but she's living her best life out here and then who else do we have regina you're very pretty isn't she beautiful i love her you're so soft yeah you are so soft how many sheep do you guys have here um bianca how many sheep do we have 33 right now 33 she thank you bianca bianca is one of our incredible caregivers she was such an amazing job making sure that everybody is healthy and taking care of and everyone has individualized care what are you doing right now um right now i'm giving sempi chain new fluids to lucky he's not doing super well he's running a fever um and he is an old man so we're just trying to keep him comfortable we're doing this including a bunch of others so um yeah we're hoping to help perk him up and offering lots of cheese oh some fresh fruit lucky that's pretty cool well that's cool lucky it's nice to meet you i'll get out of your hair thank you hi some of them are more shy for the most part depends on where they came from before yeah but let's see who's around oh elis do you want some pets today no see her so i mean obviously from experience from being around these animals all the time but how do you tell the difference between all of these sheep and you know all the names that's a great question what are the key characteristics of sheep the longer you spend around them the easier it is to pick them out of course so surely here um she had skin cancer on her ears so they took off parts of her ears to protect her so she has shorter ears some of them have woolier faces yeah some of them have you know markings obviously does this guy have a tail he does yeah so sheep are they naturally have tails but they're usually docked in the industry hi hi elis so the sheep that came to us when they were just newborn babies they still have their tails but sheep who came to us a little bit later they might have had their tails docked so elis is awesome he he reminds me of my cats and that he loves attention and affection elis and then he was so fluffy like seemingly out of nowhere you have offended him deeply and he'll give you a little headbutt you know what i mean so it's kind of like he could be hard to read a little bit so just as a heads up so i have a question for you yeah with sheep in particular yeah because sheep need to be shorn right good question yeah so so wild sheep don't need to be shorn they will shed their wool okay but domesticated sheep they need to be shorn okay so um some of our sheep here will shed their wool right Bianca is that correct yeah like lucky and like felicity and yeah a few of them but some of them need to be shorn or most of them here need to be shorn yeah we shoot them here twice a year okay i was just about to ask how frequently is that kind of a traumatic good question so in the i mean it's not their favorite day yeah um but like in the wool industry when they're oh you have a friend this is squid hi squid how are you he's named after like the rock of power character i was just about to say yeah rock of power his his old best friend was auto oh yeah in the wool industry shearers are typically paid per pound so they're incentivized to go very quickly which is you know dangerous for the animals they will oftentimes suffer amputations from being shorn so quickly and it's really dangerous that it's also dangerous for the workers as well yeah um but here at the sanctuary we pay them per hour so um we want them to take as long as they need to to make sure it's like the least traumatic experience possible um so what happened to yeah so it's like just like Regina um he was born um to like a future farmers of america program and he suffered a bad broken leg also the folks who were caring for them they did splint the leg and they tried to heal it it was actually this leg that broke oh but meanwhile he was putting all this pressure on this leg so ended up bowing out but he also has a cart that he uses for these you know these hot wheels that he takes around and yeah oh hi buddy he's living up to the rocket power he is he is living up to the as a complaint i didn't think about that when you shear the sheep yeah what do you guys do with the wall we compost it the components of wool is is actually really really beneficial for the soil and we're passionate about you know improving the environment as well as taking care of animals so um it's very good for our soil also when we're composting it birds will find it and make nests out of it so a lot of the nests that we see around here are very cozy looking that's really fun yeah that's very cute hi guys what are the species of sheep that you have because oh man these guys yeah and then the guys with the brown faces and then i'm not the best with naming all the different species of sheep but i can tell you these ones over here at the black faces they're dorpers and then um the the all brown ones like felicity there she's like Barbados um but yeah a lot of these i need to study up on the species again yeah but that's yoda he's just checking us out can we say hi to yoda or should we not say hi to yoda well uh spit if we get too close um he's yeah so he's very protective he he has a close bond with a few of our staff here um i am not one of those people he looks kind of pissed if i'm honest he looks like hey yeah he's uh just concerned about everyone's safety here so he's just keeping a lookout thank you for going such a good job he loves bananas he loves bananas if we can locate a banana we can feed him um he's very cute with the banana that's cool yeah that's about his favorite thing so he won't spit at us if we give him a no he will not he will not you know he will well that concludes the tour chloe thank you so much for having us oh it's been a joy no thank you so much for making the time to come out and thank you so much for sharing your message yeah no it was so cool seeing all the animals and just like seeing the awesome work that you guys do here and meeting some of the big boys super super fun so if you're in southern california we're in acton we're in acton yeah cool you can come to farm sanctuary where can if people want to do a tour like we just did so you can go online and you can check out our two locations the one here in southern california and then we have like our huge location up in upstate new york both are spectacular both are a great time so if you are interested it's a great event for the whole family we have public and private tours if you want to make something extra special you know just for you and a loved one um yeah we'd be happy to set that up i think we're definitely gonna come back for a part two video with my girlfriend i think she would love that good but yeah if you guys want to go in the description down below leave links so you can donate and help out farm sanctuary and take care of their animals and also i'll leave the instagram down there as well so you can you can check it on the animals every day and and see all of them like you like boris hi boris mr boris hi thanks boris thanks for the tour you did a real great job thank you so much oh my pleasure yeah here's a fun little animal montage to leave you with