Little Macc and Barak

31/03/2023

Remembering the beginnings

POST #8 of 20

I was born yesterday. I have never felt the touch of my Mama or any other cow. The farmer was there when I was born and put me in this box. They bring me a bottle in the dark early morning and again in the afternoon. I am alone all the time, except when I get my bottle. I am hungry.

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15/01/2023

Post #7 of 20

"My Mama loves me, she loves me

31/08/2022

23/04/2022

remembering Little Macc's first few days with us Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary

23/04/2022

POST #5 of 20

I was born 5 days ago. After only a few hours with my Mama they took me away. Since then, I have lived in a box by myself. Today the farmer took me out of the box and out of the barn for the first time. I saw the sky and felt the cold cold air. My brother who lived near me for a few days is gone. I don't know where. My Mama is gone, and I miss her so much. Just now the farmer put me in this cage. And, there is a new human here. She has a gentle voice. I don't know what is happening, but it is warm here, and soft.

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12/04/2022

Throw-back to a year ago

POST #5 of 20

I was born 5 days ago. After only a few hours with my Mama they took me away. Since then, I have lived in a box by myself. Today the farmer took me out of the box and out of the barn for the first time. I saw the sky and felt the cold cold air. My brother who lived near me for a few days is gone. I don't know where. My Mama is gone, and I miss her so much. Just now the farmer put me in this cage. And, there is a new human here. She has a gentle voice. I don't know what is happening, but it is warm here, and soft.

- to hear more of Little Macc's story please follow Little Macc and Barak

09/04/2022

POST #4 of 20
The farmer lifted me out of my box in the barn and we walked out, through the barn door. It is really cold. But I see my sisters! Is he going to put me by myself outside, in a hut in the cold?

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01/04/2022

POST #3 of 20:
I'm scared. There was another boy calf in a box near me. Yesterday the farmer picked him up and took him away. His Mama was being milked when it happened - she kept crying for him and he cried for his Mama. He didn't come back. What happened to him? What is going to happen to me? Mama! I want my Mama


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22/03/2022

The first calf rescued by Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary

POST #2 of 20:

I was born 4 days ago. My mother was so happy to see me. She licked me all over and we cuddled in the dark. I nursed from her udder and felt safe. Suddenly, the dark disappeared and it was bright. I heard noises and then I was lifted up and carried away from my mom. I could hear her crying for me. I struggled and called back - but I could not get to her. They put me in this box and left me here. Later they brought me a bottle of milk and made me drink it...I called and called for my mother, but I never saw her again... I am cold and so sad. Where is my mom?

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22/03/2022

14/12/2021

Happy Gotcha month Little Macc and Barak! The first of 9 calves (and two cows) we rescued in 2020-2021

One year ago, in early December, Little Macc joined the Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary - 10 days later (on December 14th) Barak was rescued and became sweet Rosie's second adopted son. Little Macc and Barak started our year of calf rescue. Between the Fall of 2020 and Spring of 2021 Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary rescued 9 calves and two cows:
- Rosie (16 year old Jersey cow surrendered to us because she was not pregnant and therefore could no longer be milked - 8 months later she gave birth to her miracle baby - Jeffie

17/10/2021

UPDATE!!! Please watch the video to see how everyone is doing - and discover Rosie's Miracles

Rosie, a beautiful and kind Jersey cow, is now between 15 and 17 years old. For most of her life she was milked. Every year she lost her baby so that she cou...

07/09/2021

"Hi - We just want to let you know that we are doing great. Glad the weather has cooled down and that Uri and Chaya are big enough to play with :)"

love to you all - Little Macc & Barak

05/08/2021

This is Chip.

He is Little Macc and Barak's brother - rescued by Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary and now living his best life at Pammie's Sanctuary. Thank you Pammie's Sanctuary for the wonderful care and love that you give sweet Chip

And suddenly it clicks

05/08/2021

Post #21

"Remember me? I am Rosie. I am between 15 and 17 years old - no one is really sure. This video was taken of me the day I arrived at Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary in November 2020. I came from a hobby farm where, every year, they would try to make me pregnant, like all milk cows. It didn't always work. But when I did have a baby I always got really sick. They called it milk fever - what ever it was it would make me too weak to get up. They had to have the doctor come and give me a needle. And, by the time I felt better, my baby was gone and the farmers took my milk. Every year this happened and I was always so sad, but I tried to be nice, even when their children were learning to milk me, I was gentle with them. One year I had a girl calf and she stayed on the farm. I didn't get to raise her, but I could talk to her over the fence. Last year they decided that was it. When I didn't get pregnant they contacted some sanctuaries and told them I would be killed in a couple of weeks if no one took me. Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary gave me a home. I was the first cow here. I cried and cried for my calves every day from the sunrise until dark. I thought my heart would break. But then, Little Macc arrived, followed by Barak a few sunrises later (their stories are in earlier posts on Little Macc and Barak). And, I love them. Macc was here first so, he is like my son. I even started making milk for him. When Barak arrived, I would let him nurse too. The HuMom here gave them bottles because I didn't really have enough milk to raise a calf, but it made us all feel like a family when they nursed me. After they were big boys, it must have been 6 times of the round moon, I stopped them from nursing anymore. It was time. And, besides - I had a secret..."

26/07/2021

Philip Wollen: "I thought that Dairy was the bucolic, peaceful image of green pastures and crystal streams, rolling hills... Little did I know that behind the dairy walls was a cruel industrial juggernaut, a vile gulag of despair. During a business trip to India I saw a milkman whipping and dragging a cow to the slaughterhouse. She had been badly injured in an accident with a lorry. He had a chain around her neck and forced her to walk with a broken leg and severe injuries to her spine. Beside her walked her scrawny, starving and terrified calf, ribs protruding and her skinny legs trembling. At the slaughterhouse gate, he unchained her and handed her to the butcher.
But before he did so, the bastard milked her.

But I refused to believe that this cruelty could happen in the West.

I did my own investigating and soon discovered that milk was meat in liquid form. The dairy industry provided feedstock for the meat industry. And I discovered that ordinary consumers knew nothing about the dairy industry. Everything they thought they knew was a lie. It did not occur to me that dairy was an equally vile gulag for animals. I saw the carnage of veal, the forcible assault on the ge****ls and artificial insemination of cows; disbudding horns and tail-docking without anesthetics; the cruelty of induction, the removal of 2 day old “bobby” calves from their grieving mothers for the cruel veal markets, and the legally-sanctioned violence of killing “unviable” calves by dairy-farmers jumping on their rib-cages and crushing their hearts...It is a not an industry. It is an atrocity, a squalid, vile, disgusting scam". . . . . . . . Philip Wollen

12/07/2021

Sending a GREAT BIG Thank You to Official Big Bale Buddy & Slow Bale Buddy for their donation of half price Slow Bale Buddy bags to us at Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary

06/07/2021

It doesn't matter what you are, or who you are, as long as you are kind to others.

27/06/2021

Post #20 of 20: Freedom and love

10/05/2021

Update on naming contest for Bella's twins

05/05/2021

Post #19 of 20

"The vet came out and gave us medications to make us sleepy. While I was resting, she 'fixed' my boy. While she did his surgery I heard her say that many farmers don't want to pay for pain medicine and to make calves sleepy, so they 'fix' boys without any pain killers. My boy had pain medication at the surgery site and generally. After she was done with him she tackled my very long feet. She said that, when my little boy is healed, we can all go out in the field with Rosie, Little Macc and Barak! I am so excited - I will be able to run and play without stepping on my own feet :) "

- Bella

Bella and the twins were rescued by Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary and you can follow their story and the stories of their family at Little Macc and Barak

03/05/2021

It is time to find names for the Twins!
We are fundraising in order to raise money to cover castration, vaccination, food, shelter and ongoing vets bills - please contribute if you can

Cows provide milk because they are mothers, not because they are cows. Bella, a young dai… Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary needs your support for Bella's New Life

25/04/2021

This video is the story of a cow and her calf who were rescued by Joaquin Phoenix

- no animals are killed or injured in this video - it is about the rescue

https://youtu.be/eJ9iQLfeGBk

Stay tuned

20/04/2021

POST #18 of 20

We have settled into our new life! Little Macc and Barak and Rosie have a new, bigger pasture beside us and I can hardly wait to be able to take my babies out there with them

19/04/2021

Dairy Farmer Tearfully Admits Mother Cows Cry for Days After Being Separated from Their Babies https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/dairy-farmer-tearfully-admits-mother-cows-cry-days-separated-babies/

Meat, Egg and Dairy Alternatives https://www.vegan.com/vegan-alternatives/

16/04/2021

Post #17 of 20

We are family! Our neighbours are a very friendly cow named Rosie and her two adopted sons, Little Macc and Barak. We have been talking to each other and Rosie showed me a few things, like where the water and hay is. My new babies spend their time sleeping, running around and talking with Macc and Barak through the fence. I am still getting used to being a real Mama, being with my babies and taking care of them. And, I am still adjusting to this new and totally different place. But, I am not so scared anymore.

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15/04/2021

POST #16 of 20

The twin babies in the trailer are for me! They are my new family! We got off the trailer at Shadowhaven and were brought into a little field with a blue house in it, just for us. The little babies are scared, and so am I but we are taking care of each other.
I have milk and the babies are hungry, so even though they didn't get to nurse their mother and I lost my baby after a few hours, we have figured out how to manage. I am trying to remember what I need to do to care for them and having two babies can be confusing when they run off in different directions. But I am happy to be with them.

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Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary was formally established in 2020 -… Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary needs your support for Shadowhaven Farm Sanctuary and Veterinary Fund

14/04/2021

POST #15 of 20

"I am 5 days old. I have been living outside in a calf hut with my twin brother for the last 3 days. We couldn't run or play. Our Mama is gone. Today the farmers carried us into this trailer. There was a grown-up cow in the trailer too. We could hear her and smell her scent, but we couldn't see her. Now the trailer door is open and we are at a different farm. I don't know what is going to happen, I am afraid. My twin brother is afraid too :( "

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12/04/2021

POST #14 of 20

"I am so scared. I have never left my farm. Actually, ever since I moved out of my calf hut, I have never been outside the barn. I don't know where I am or what is happening. What is going to happen to me?"

- Bella (To follow my story please follow Little Macc and Barak)