Rare Kindness: Farmer Saves Cows from Slaughter and Provides Idyllic Life

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/causes/rare-kindness-farmer-saves-cows-from-slaughter-provides-idyllic-life.html

by Laura SimpsonApril 24, 2014



Editor’s note: This post is a Care2 favorite. It was originally published on March 17, 2012. Enjoy!

Written by David Lay of Missouri

Traveling with a neighbor to pick up some cows he bought, I ended up with a beef cow of my own. Minnie, a Brangus (a cross between an Angus and a Brahma) was among the 25 other cows my neighbor had bought. The owner asked him if he wanted this one cow who didn’t calve last year. When a cow misses a calving, very often they are “culled” because the farmer can’t take the chance she’ll miss again, costing him too much money.

“No, I really don’t want her,” my neighbor said.

The owner then said that he’d just have to “send her off” himself.

I don’t know why, but I felt sorry for the old girl and piped up “I’ll take her!” and so my neighbor loaded her onto his trailer with his newly aquired cows and off we went back home. I have a small farm with a few milk cows and I just couldn’t imagine what I was going to do with a beef cow, especially one that couldn’t have calves, but I did know I couldn’t stand the thought of her being slaughtered. She had a shiny, jet black coat and big, beautiful eyes, and I soon found out she was very tame and liked to have her tail scratched.



Maggie is an older cow I bought at the sale barn. She was being sold with the slaughter cows. She can’t have calves, but she is the grand matron of the herd

FULL story and more photos at link.

[hadrons]

1. great story

+1

[freshwest]

2. Love it. Always said that cows make good neighbors. n/t

[MadrasT]

3. I love this so much.

It really brightened my day. Bless this man and than you for sharing this story.