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Sanctuary-wide Campaign

Stock the Straw

Cold nights are coming. Ten dollars buys a bale, and every shelter on the property needs filling.

Cold nights arrive before the calendar admits it. When they do, straw goes into every shelter on the property — deep, dry, and piled high enough for a pig to burrow into and disappear completely.

Straw is not bedding the way a blanket is bedding. It is insulation. The hollow stems trap body heat, so an animal lying in a thick bed of it stays warm on nights when the air is anything but. Goats nest in it. Chickens burrow into it. The pigs rearrange it for a solid hour before settling in, then sleep like they have been paid to do it.

And it gets used up. Bedding is turned out and replaced as it is soiled, all winter, across every shelter we run. One bale is $10. Thirty bales gets the whole property through the first stretch of real cold — and that is where we would like to start.

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What a bale actually does

Ten dollars, start to finish

Straw arrives stiff and rectangular and leaves as a nest. Here is the entire lifecycle, as performed by the residents.

First, it arrives

A bale is $10. This is the part of the process that looks like a receipt.

Then it gets rearranged

Nobody here accepts straw in the shape it was delivered in. The bale is a suggestion.

And then, finally, it gets slept in

This is the part the money actually buys: warm animals on a cold night, doing nothing at all.

Every photo opens at full resolution. Photographs by Krystal Lynn.

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