Bucky's Bull Rescue

01/15/2025

It's a very cold night. I can't help but think what all the littles in calf huts alone are feeling tonight. This girl is inside with a heat lamp and bedding and food and water and she just had a warm bottle and she sucked on my fingers and I gave her lots of cuddles and love.

This is the best life she can have. It would be better to be with her mother of course but that would never happen in the dairy industry. I am the best substitute she can have for someone who will love and nurture her. I adore her as I do all of my sweet babies.

Tonight she will sleep comfortably and peacefully despite the cold. In the morning I will open the door and I will say good morning babies. I will have her warm bottle and she will once again know that she can count on me and that her future is bright.

01/15/2025

Oh farmers care so much about their animals! They are commodified, that means that they equal money. There is no kindness in this industry, only selfishness and cruelty.

01/15/2025

The purpose of cow's milk is to turn a 65-pound calf into a 700 pound cow as rapidly as possible. Cow's milk IS baby calf growth fluid. No matter what you do to it, that is what the stuff is.

Everything in that white liquid - the hormones, the lipids, the proteins, the sodium, the growth factors like IGF-I - are all there to start that calf growing into a great big cow, or else they would not be there.

Whether you pour it on your cereal as a liquid, whether you churn it into butter, whether you curdle it into yogurt, whether you ferment into cheese, or whether you add sugar to it and freeze it as ice cream... It's baby calf growth fluid!

Its purpose is to increase weight and promote growth in tissues throughout the mammalian body. It's great stuff if you are a baby calf, but if you are a human trying to create a lean, healthy body, it will NOT "do a body good."
Dr Michael Klaper

01/15/2025

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01/13/2025

We hosted our first private farm dinner this afternoon. Kathy Przyworski was kind enough to bid on it when we had our event in November. She brought along her partner Stephanie and friend Kerrie and they were absolutely lovely. We enjoyed some delicious vegan food, thanks to my husband Jack L. Martin and lots of time with the babies. They even got to give Prancer a bottle.

I'm so grateful for them and for all of you who see us and know we're doing our best to make a difference. Every bit of support we receive is heartwarming and keeps us moving forward which is the only way we're going to win this very long battle.

Come visit soon, until then take good care of yourselves and each other and continue the fight to end animal cruelty.

01/12/2025

Good article

When Halloween creeps up each year it conjures feelings of fright: goblins, ghosts, and gremlins come to mind. Not cows on dairy farms. But should they? No matter how dairy farming is done, whether on factory farms or small, so-called “humane” farms, dairy production is downright scary. While ho...

01/12/2025

Auntie Drea came to visit the babies today and help with chores. She brought treats as usual and got to feed the big boys out in the pasture and spend some time with baby Prancer. Grateful for her 🥰

01/12/2025

Bucky has been a stinker this week. He has not wanted to go back to his stall after coming in from the pasture. Today was no different. I did enjoy getting some extra cuddles with him but finally needed an incentive to get him back in the stall with Frankie. The good hay worked. My sweet baby boy 🐄🩵

01/11/2025

Layla and Lil' P 🐄🐄🩷🩷

01/11/2025

My heart exploded when these two met.

Prancer was running around the barn and Layla was stretching her neck to get her head out of her stall and try to lick the baby.

I let her out and she immediately became a wonderful big sister to Prancer.

She groomed her and nudged her with her head while Prancer danced around.

These are our two freemartins. For those that do not know, a freemartin is a female calf who is born with a male twin. In utero she absorbs some of the male hormones so she is not fertile therefore not valuable to a dairy farm. Rescuing these two girls was certainly a highlight of 2024..

Watching them connect was truly one of those moments that makes all of the tough days worth it.

01/10/2025

Not different. A dog is a cow is a cat is a pig.

01/09/2025

We've got photos and window clings! Help us get our winter needs met.

By Bucky's Bull Rescue

01/08/2025

Today Bucky decided not to go into his stall but rather take a leisurely walk around the barn two or three times then stare at me in the feed area trying to convince me to give him a treat. I did not. He eventually went into his stall. Not sure who won that one.

01/08/2025

Okay so this girl is truly remarkable. First of all she is incredibly sweet and likely the easiest of all of my littles. But check out her speed! At the end of her sprint you can see her signature prance as she heads back into the barn. I love this little girl 🐄🩷

01/07/2025

Ruth and Forrest sharing some time in the sun today 🐄🐄☀️