Although we don’t currently have any cows up for adoption, if you would sponsor Boris, please get in touch.

Boris the Blind Bull

When we heard about Boris, we just had to agree to take him on. Boris’s mum was ill with BVD when she was pregnant with him, this caused Boris’s blindness. As he would be difficult to rear for the farmer, we agreed to take him on.

We will offer Boris a permanent, life long home.  As he was born blind, rather than became blind, he makes extra use of his other senses and, once he knows his surroundings can move about quite freely.

When he came to us, he had only lived in a cow shed and so never smelt the sweet smell of spring grass. Over the past few weeks we have been teaching him how to eat it. You would think that this would come natural to him, but no. Although he would happily eat grass picked for him, we had to teach him that grass was all around and all he had to do was bend down to find it.

Although he now finds grass himself to eat, as you can see he hasn’t quite learnt how to reach down with his head, without the need to knee! It is quite a sight seeing him bend down and eat all the grass in front of him. The field ends up with long grass with loads of bold circles where Boris has been kneeling.

We are now trying to raise the funds to get the vet out to give him the snip, vaccinate and care for him.

Boris when he first came to us, learning how to eat grass

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This is Boris 6 months after we rescued him Now his coat is healthy and very clean and shinny.

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One of the pit falls of having a blind bull, when he can smell food there ain’t much stopping him from getting to it! fortunately the rabbit were fine, the hutch saw another day but the run did not.