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Do No Harm Farm
Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation (WRR)
is home to 350 animals commonly found on farms, including
sheep,
goats,
pigs,
turkeys,
cows,
and chickens
as well as a number of domesticated rabbits,
ducks,
geese,
mules,
and donkeys.
The Do No Harm Farm was established in 1999
when an organization in north Texas bearing that name found
it necessary to close their doors. WRR was there to take in
the soon-to-be homeless farmed animals and give them acres
to roam at our Kendalia facility.
 Many
of the animals in our sanctuary came from a world where they
are thought of only as commodities to be exploited and abused
for the sake of human consumption and enterprise. Most of
our residents were destined for a life of suffering and death
at the hands of the food industry had they not had the good
fortune to be rescued and placed here at our Do No Harm Farm.
At the WRR sanctuary, these animals are free
to roam and play in our many pastures. No longer are they
confined in cages that keep them from standing tall, let alone
walking or running. They have shelters from inclement weather,
thick beds of hay, nourishing food, clean water, sunlight,
and fresh air — all basic needs previously denied to
them.
Some Do No Harm Farm Residents…
Here are a few of their stories:
Chester and Esther are beautiful young bovines
who were born on local ranches. Chester suffered a broken
leg, and Esther is blind. Because of these animals' physical
impairments, the ranchers did not wish to care for them and
sought a new home. They share their pasture life with one
cow and two bulls; one of the bulls is also blind, and the
other was rescued from a nearby ranch when the new ranch owners
decided to shoot him.
 Approximately
20 members of the chicken population were rescued from certain
death at a poultry processing plant. Only hens are kept to
be raised for eventual slaughter. Male chicks are discarded
when they are only hours old, thrown into garbage bins while
still alive and cheeping for their mothers, and then completely
covered by other hatchlings in an attempt to smother the tiny
chicks. This ensures the processing plant a real savings in
their budget as they do not have to gas the little chicks,
they can just let them slowly die under the weight of their
fellows. WRR interns rescued the rooster chicks after hearing
their muffled cries for help from beneath the bodies of their
dead companions. They have since grown strong and proud and
spend their days strutting around the sanctuary.
 Mulie
is a venerable old mule who was rescued from a petting zoo
in Dallas when the owners could no longer care for him. He
was in dire need of specialized care, hoof trimming, and a
proper diet for an animal of his mature years. He receives
all of this now that he is here at Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation's
Do No Harm Farm.
The Jacob's, Suffolk, Fine Wool, and other
sheep who call the sanctuary home came from as far away as
North Carolina and as nearby as Spring Branch. Some came from
homes where their humans had died, others were rescued off
the auction block, and still others were found abandoned and
hungry. Now they are all part of a well-fed herd, roaming
the hills here at WRR's Do No Harm Farm.
Many of the turkeys at WRR were rescued from
their intended fate as food on Thanksgiving tables. A history
of selective breeding, a cruel life of confinement, and a
diet meant not to nourish healthily, but to fatten, have left
domesticated turkeys terribly misshapen, many barely able
to support their own body weight on their legs.
While many of the Do No Harm Farm residents
may have experienced harsh treatment and hard times in their
youth, we can take pleasure in the fact that for the rest
of their lives, they will be allowed to live peacefully in
our care.
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