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Via @robinsrefuge
Part 1: The Rescue of Jude
On Monday evening the sanctuary was contacted about a newborn bull calf, who was in dire need of aid. Unfortunately, the situation was complicated, and the whistle blower was not actually authorized to release the calf. After tireless efforts, it wasn’t until early Tuesday morning, that we were able to get confirmation that the calf would be released.
Upon pulling up to the ‘family’ dairy farm, I instead found a small scale factory farm - with rows upon rows of concrete barns, holding hundreds of cows and calves prisoner inside their walls. -
Soon after I arrived (but not before I had a chance to peak around) I was ushered into one the birthing barns, where pen after pen of infant calves lay huddled, some shaking in fear. The new mothers or expectant moms stood or lay crowded together, in tiny pens at the opposite end. -
Jude was laying in cramped pen, a tiny ball of brown curled up so small, I almost missed him at first look. He was frail, weak, eyes so wide in fear, he clearly needed his mother. -
Immediately after birth, Jude was ‘allowed’ the brief chance to nurse colostrum from his mother, before being ripped from her forever. He was thrown in a tiny pen, the size of a small standing horse stall, no more than 10ft away from his grieving mom. She could see and hear her baby who so desperately needed her, but was unable to touch, to reach, or to comfort him.
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Jude did not respond well to being separated, and did not take to the bottle. Only offered milk twice a day, a bare minimum in industry standards, he showed no signs of having a suck reflex and was not eating. In an industry where these babies lives are valued only in their bodies ability to turn a dollar, a calf that requires extra care isn’t worth the loss in profits for an operation this scale, therefore they are often just left to die. This is what was planned for Jude, his stall already branded with the damning orange stripe, when someone made a life changing decision to show compassion for him. Due to Jude’s spunky spitfire personality, even in his weakened dehydrated state, a worker saw something in Jude, and decided...
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haha!! April fools!!! (or I hope so!!)
Lol. It’s amazing how many people fell for it!!