'It feels impossible': Waikato animal sanctuary in race against time to save 2000 chickens
'It feels impossible': Waikato animal sanctuary in race against time to save 2000 chickens Newshub 3 hrs ago © Provided by Newshub An animal sanctuary in Waikato is in a race against time to find homes for thousands of chickens. Sally Hart of Franklin Farm Sanctuary says she got a call on Wednesday telling her a battery farm in the area had been forced to abruptly close down, leaving 2000 chickens facing the prospect of being culled if they couldn't be rehoused somewhere else. Battery farms are currently being phased out of New Zealand, with all of them to be gone by the end of 2022.