Three eyed Welsh cow destined for the slaughterhouse saved by Hindu animal sanctuary
A cow born in Wales with an extra eye in the middle of its forehead that was destined for the slaughterhouse has now been saved by a Hindu animal sanctuary.
In May Nation.Cymru broke the news that a calf with three eyes was born on a farm on the Llŷn peninsula. The farmer, Jake Jones, said at the time that he had “never seen anything like it”.
Despite its unusual third eye the calf has been destined to enter the food chain until it was bought for £5,000 by the Jain Animal Sanctuary in Leicester.
Cows are among the most revered beasts in Hinduism and three-eyed calves have previously been worshipped as religious dieties. The Welsh cow has been named Mahadev, which is another name for the Hindu deity Shiva, who has a third eye.
The sanctuary said: “We are very proud and blessed to inform everyone that we have rescued a three-eyed bull from slaughter in Wales. We have named him Mahadev. It’s an honour and privilege to be given the opportunity to provide love and care to Mahadev!”
‘Healthy’
The third eye on the forehead of Jake Jones’ calf was spotted by visiting vet Malan Hughes.
“I rear about three thousand calves a year and have never seen anything like it!” Jake Jones told Nation.Cymru.
“I asked the vet what it was while she was testing it for TB and she said it was an eye!”
Malan Hughes from Pwllheli shared a picture of the calf saying she “could not believe what we spotted today” and asked if anyone else had ever seen such as animal.
“Having a calf or any animal with this impairment is extremely rare,” she told Nation.Cymru. “I have never heard of, or seen one like this before.
“The calf seems perfectly healthy. We were doing other work with the herd when we noticed the fault. He will surely live a normal life for such an animal.”
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That is one lucky calf…
I’ll say it is! I just had a look at this young fellow’s new home, I’m sure any less than £5,000 would have been disrespectful to the beast in the minds of the people of the sanctuary.
Da iawn 😊
Why can’t people just say “oh cool” and look after the animal as being cool and interesting without I’m a third extreme being too weirdly white-coated about it!? These strange dichotomies and extremes echo the way people with physical differences and disabled people are treated. I hate the way the article has contrasted deification and religious treasuring with a view of impairment and fault, there was no evidence offered that it was impaired or unhealthy so I find Hughes’s apparent attitude particularly annoying. Maybe it wasn’t just have been the way the questions were posed, deliberate reporting sensationalism. It’s the… Read more »
Jeeeez lady calm down and put down the thesaurus! Hahaaa!
Typical farmer cashing in. 5k is x4 it’s price!
Just shows there’s no compassion! They love animals my arse
Thats bs.not every farmer only cares about the money.thats industrialised farming .
He raises 3000 calves a year, that’s pretty industrial.
So glad the cow was saved
Jains aren’t Hindus.
They both are the sanatanis from sanatan land of India. Same philosophy. New names given in last 300 or so years
Least this babe is safe
But no one has said the third eye is working. Surely if it was it would confuse his senses.
Why? Does your steak normally come to your plate with two eyes on It?
Jainism and Hinduism are different religions