Iowa Farm Sanctuary

Iowa Farm Sanctuary Iowa Farm Sanctuary provides a safe haven to rescued farm animals in need of love and compassion.
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It’s Sanctuary Stroll Sunday!And since it’s the first Sunday of the month, that means Amy’s Vegan Bake Sale is back — wi...
06/07/2026

It’s Sanctuary Stroll Sunday!

And since it’s the first Sunday of the month, that means Amy’s Vegan Bake Sale is back — with name your price baked goods! 🍋 This time featuring lemon crinkle cookies, blueberry buckle, almond cookie bars, sugar cookie bars, no bake cookies, and maybe even brownies. You won’t want to miss it!

Come on out and experience IFS — enjoy our beautiful sanctuary and connect with our rescued residents, like Jane and Sal! 🐮

Please take a moment to read a few important notes before the event:

🌷Our gates will open at exactly 1:00PM; we know you’re excited (yay), but please don’t arrive early!
🐑We know how much you love them, but please leave your furry (non-human) family members at home.
🌱Vegan drinks and snacks are welcome; out of respect for our rescued residents, please leave any non-vegan food and drinks at home.
🐮When you arrive, please visit our little store to get checked in; if you bought your ticket(s) in advance, please be ready to tell us the name they were purchased under!
🌼If you’ll be making your admissions donation at the door, we ask $15 for adults and $6 for kiddos! Treats to offer our rescued residents are available for purchase as well!
🐷Please wear comfortable shoes that you don’t mind getting a little dirty!
🌈For more information or to purchase tickets in advance, please visit https://www.iowafarmsanctuary.org/events.

See you soon, y’all! 🐮

Thank you so much to Cross Park Rd Hy-Vee for generously donating produce for our rescued residents to enjoy during the event! 🌱

06/06/2026

Look at those lil legs GO! 😭💚

Karmen has a long way to go, But he didn’t get here overnight, and he is not stopping now.

Can we all take a second to show this champion how strong and brave he is? Drop your words of encouragement below 👇 — he deserves every single one.

06/05/2026

🌿 It’s the most bountiful time of year at the sanctuary — and our residents are HERE for it! 🐄🐖🐑

From the gardens we’ve planted to the volunteer produce popping up on its own (shoutout to our mulberry trees doing the MOST right now 🫐), we’ve got a full-on smorgasbord happening.

Today our staff took a little break from the daily grind to harvest fresh goodies and treat our rescued residents to some much-deserved snackies. 🥬🍓🌽

Watching them enjoy every bite is truly one of the greatest perks of this work. 🥹

We’re all big plant eaters ’round these parts. 🌱

👇 Tell us — what’s growing in YOUR garden right now?

Her name was Gail. She was a tiny piglet, and she arrived to us already carrying more than any body should have to. A se...
06/04/2026

Her name was Gail. She was a tiny piglet, and she arrived to us already carrying more than any body should have to. A severe fracture of her femur. A broken jaw. Fractures to her skull. From the moment she got here, our focus was simple: get her the best care possible and give her every chance to heal.

Yesterday morning we received the news we had been dreading. Gail’s condition was worse than her injuries alone suggested. She had become severely septic, which means a body-wide infection had taken hold and her system was struggling to fight it. She needed a central line placed just to deliver the fluids and IV antibiotics keeping her stable.

As the vet team looked closer, they found more. Gail had pulmonary contusions, which is a deep bruising of the lung tissue. When lungs are bruised like, blood and fluid seep into the spaces meant for air, and breathing and getting oxygen into the blood becomes harder and harder. She also had pulmonary bullae, which are large, fragile air pockets that form when damaged air sacs in the lungs break down and balloon outward. Bullae are dangerous because they can rupture without warning and collapse a lung. In a body as small and already as fragile as Gail’s, both of these were serious threats on their own. Together they were devastating. On top of all of it, she was showing signs of a brain injury.

We sat with everything in front of us. A piglet who was severely septic. A surgery that would have been invasive and deeply risky. A potential brain injury. Severe damage to her lungs. And we made the decision we never want to make but sometimes have to. We decided that this fight was simply too much to ask of her young, delicate body.

Gail passed peacefully in the hospital, surrounded and supported by the staff who cared for her right to the end.

We are so grateful for the veterinary team who fought for her and treated her with such gentleness. And grateful for all of you, whose support makes it possible for us to say yes to little ones like Gail, even when the time we get with them is far too short. She was loved. She mattered. And we will carry her with us.

Rest easy, sweet Gail.

06/03/2026

You guys — meet our little SWIMMER! 🐮💙😭

Sweet Karmen has been working SO hard in his rehab journey — and this boy is not giving up. He’s been getting stronger and more coordinated every single day, but with all the time in his casts and cart, he started developing sores that we just couldn’t ignore.

So we got creative. 💡

We added swim therapy — and y’all, it has been a GAME CHANGER. 🌊 Swimming lets Karmen use and build his muscles while feeling completely weightless, free from the pressure of his harness and casts. He gets to just move — and stay cool while doing it!

The only problem? This growing boy already needs a bigger pool and bigger floaties. 😂🐄

Drop a 🐮 below to cheer on our lil swimmer — he works hard and he DESERVES it! 👇

06/02/2026

Gail is fighting — and y’all are fighting RIGHT alongside her. 💚🐷

The outpouring of love for this little girl has been absolutely UNBELIEVABLE, and we are so grateful for every share, every donation, and every heart poured out for her.

Gail is still hospitalized out of state and will be for the foreseeable future. She’s started eating a little more 🙏 — but she’s still battling hypoglycemia, and her road ahead is not easy.

The tentative plan is femur surgery this Thursday. 🦴

Gail is proof that when humans decide a life has value, everything changes. She deserves that. 💚

We’ll keep y’all posted every step of the way. Thank you, IFS fam. From the bottom of our hearts. 🐷

06/01/2026

🚨Emergency Rescue🚨

Meet Gail. 3 weeks old. Fell off a moving semi on the interstate. Broken snout, a shattered femur, severe sunburn, and she hasn’t eaten or drunk anything — her tiny body shutting down.

And the state of Iowa won’t allow the only large animal hospital in the state to help her.

Why? Because Iowa law classifies a 21-day-old piglet who fell off a truck as a feral animal. Under Iowa Code § 163.33, “feral swine” is defined as any swine “running at large.” That’s it. No exceptions. No context. A 21-day-old piglet who fell off a semi, by Iowa law, is feral — and under Iowa Admin. Code Rule 21-64.155, that triggers a mandatory 30-day quarantine, making emergency vet care inside state lines impossible.

Iowa didn’t just fail Gail. Iowa wrote the law that failed her.

🌽 Iowa, the nation’s largest producer of pigs, has decided that when their industry creates an animal in distress, that animal is on her own. No vet care. No emergency treatment.

The industry created these animals, put them on the truck, and when one falls off and breaks her body on the interstate, Iowa law says she’s feral. Untouchable. Not their problem.

But she became our problem. So we drove her out of state, hours, with her broken little body — because that’s apparently what it takes to give a three-week-old piglet the right to not suffer in this state.

Iowa values bacon over beings. 🥓

Gail is now facing over $5,000 in vet bills and a precarious medical situation. Possible punctured lung. Shattered leg. She had to be sedated today — risky given her condition — because she simply could not wait another day for supportive care.

She has been through more than words can hold. And she didn’t choose any of it.

This was not a rescue we were pardoning for, but when our vets call asking us to get a piglet vet care they desperately need, we cannot turn away. Will YOU step up to help us help Gail? 💚🙏

Drop a 🤯 below if you had no idea this was happening in Iowa — because most people don’t. And that’s exactly the problem.

It’s Sanctuary Stroll Sunday!Come on out and experience IFS—Enjoy our beautiful sanctuary and connect with our rescued r...
05/31/2026

It’s Sanctuary Stroll Sunday!

Come on out and experience IFS—Enjoy our beautiful sanctuary and connect with our rescued residents, like Jane and Sal! 🐮

Please take a moment to read a few important notes before the event:

🌷Our gates will open at exactly 1:00PM; we know you’re excited (yay), but please don’t arrive early!
🐑We know how much you love them, but please leave your furry (non-human) family members at home.
🌱Vegan drinks and snacks are welcome; out of respect for our rescued residents, please leave any non-vegan food and drinks at home.
🐮When you arrive, please visit our little store to get checked in; if you bought your ticket(s) in advance, please be ready to tell us the name they were purchased under!
🌼If you’ll be making your admissions donation at the door, we ask $15 for adults and $6 for kiddos! Treats to offer our rescued residents are available for purchase as well!
🐷Please wear comfortable shoes that you don’t mind getting a little dirty!
🌈For more information or to purchase tickets in advance, please visit https://www.iowafarmsanctuary.org/events.

See you soon, y’all! 🐮

**Thank you so much to Cross Park Rd Hy-Vee for generously donating produce for our rescued residents to enjoy during the event! 🌱**

05/29/2026

25 humans changed everything for Napoleon in just 24 hours.

Over $2,000 in donations came in. And here’s the part that gave us chills: HALF of that is now recurring.

That means 12 incredible individuals are sponsoring Napoleon for the entire year. $3 a day. Every single month. Sustained, committed care for our guy here at IFS.

This is what grassroots looks like. This is what people who show up look like.

To the 25 of you: our hearts are so full. You proved that a small group of thoughtful, committed people really can change the world, and Napoleon’s world especially.

Want to join them? Even $3 a day makes you part of this.

https://www.iowafarmsanctuary.org/yearlysponsor

05/28/2026

We are shocked to share that Napoleon — a bull who survived months on the run, sub-zero temperatures, freezing food and water sources, and brutal winds with absolutely no shelter — did not receive a single sponsor after our last post. Not one😢.

Despite our incredible community of over 100k followers on Instagram and nearly 200k on Facebook, we are struggling to find a single person to support this sweet soul. Having a strong social media presence has always been a double edge sword- our reach is larger, but so many are left to assume “someone else will do it”. And in Napoleons case, there hasn’t been a someone else.

Our sponsorship program is not just important — it is our lifeblood. Having sponsors for all of our rescued residents is how we are able to say yes to the next animal in need. It is a heartbreaking reality for a grassroots organization that relies solely on your generosity.

If you have ever thought about supporting our work on a monthly basis, we urgently ask you to please consider becoming Napoleon’s sponsor — or a sponsor for any of our residents who are still waiting. Your support is not just helpful; it is essential for Napoleon’s future and the future of every animal in our care.

We desperately want to turn this around for Napoleon but we cannot do it without you.

👉 Please click the link here or in our IG bio to sponsor Napoleon today. Your kindness can make all the difference, and we cannot express how grateful we would be for your support. Napoleon and our residents need you. 💚

https://www.iowafarmsanctuary.org/yearlysponsor/napoleon

Address

1696 250th Street NW
Oxford, IA
52322

Opening Hours

1pm - 4pm

Telephone

+13193290205

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