ELIZABETH is the cow who started it all. Queen E is the reason Denise started the cow rescue. Before we lived at the farm, we would go to see Elizabeth every day, and she ran to us with excitement. Now that she is grown and has friends to occupy her time, she completely ignores us. So, when we can get in a hug or a kiss, it makes it extra special. She is a stoic girl and never gets overly excited and is never in a hurry. She is a gentle giant; Charolais are on the larger size, and I’m guessing she weighs in around 1700 pounds. Elizabeth was born in 2020 and is six years old. She is a registered Charolais. She is blind in one eye from an early-life infection or injury.

It’s a long story, but Elizabeth named herself.

AGNES is a sweet girl who came to us shortly after we arrived at the farm. We were eager to find a friend for Elizabeth because we knew she was lonely. Agnes was about four months old when she arrived and, despite being bottle-fed, showed no signs of trust in humans. According to the girl who bottle-fed her, she purchased her at a cattle auction when Agnes was only a few days old. She is a dark beauty with shiny black hair and a giant splotch of red on her back, depending on the season. She has the most intense, soulful brown eyes. Agnes has never been a huge fan of visitors and stands back on tour days. She is calm and gentle but does not really want a lot of attention. Agnes is five.

Named by Abby DeVerney

ALYSSA came to us, along with Simone, from a 3500 cow factory dairy farm at the end of July 2021. Her blindness came from a severe pink eye infection. When she arrived, her eyes were infected, and she was covered in ringworm. Simone and Alyssa were in quarantine until they were healthy, which took almost three months. Both of her eyes are damaged, and she is mostly blind but gets around very well. She sees more than we expected her to considering the damage. We know for sure that she can see light/dark or shadows, but I’d say she has about 30% of her vision. She can be slow to approach something new, and that would really be the only time you’d be able to tell she has diminished vision. Alyssa was dehorned by the dairy but the horns grew back. At some point, one horn fell off, so she currently has one horn.

Named by Jeanette Feiklowicz

SIMONE came to us from a 3,500-cow factory dairy farm at the end of July. She and Alyssa are partially blind from a severe pink eye infection they had as calves. Simone's vision is better than Alyssa's; she can see about 40%. Simone and Alyssa were in quarantine until they were healthy, and then we introduced them to Elizabeth and Agnes. Simone is the most intelligent cow on the farm and the easiest to handle. She loves getting brushed and welcomes any attention and love. She is SO curious, and every worker or volunteer knew to watch their tools. She took the keys out of our utility side-by-side and once took a paintbrush out of a can during a pasture painting project. She loves to check out tools and see what everyone is up to around the farm! Simone and Alyssa are both five.

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) was a philosopher, novelist, feminist, public intellectual, and activist, and one of the significant figures in existentialism in post-war France.

Named by Damien Feiklowicz

FERNANDO came to us from a woman who takes bull calves from a dairy farm, where they are usually killed, and sells them for profit. She sells the calves to families who want a meat cow, and she will field-slaughter the steers when they are grown at her farm. We found cow bones with cut-off heads in a mound on her property. Fernando became very sick after his transport to the farm, and we almost lost him. Today, he is happy and healthy and living, and is as easy-going as the day is long. Fernando was dehorned. He is close to 7 feet tall. He is a giant. He is very sweet but, like our other cows, really doesn’t want to be bothered all that much. He spends a lot of time with Frankie and they are close to the same age.

Named by Kerri Holt

FRANKIE is the son of our once-resident Mamma, Grace. Grace passed away a few years ago from heart failure. They came together to the farm in November 2022. A local farmer asked if he could retire his old girl here with us; she had twenty babies (twins twice) in 18 years at his farm. Our donors raised the money to buy Frankie so she could keep her last baby. Grace was an Angus, and Bully, his father, was a Limousin, so that makes Frankie a Lim-Flex. Frankie is very calm and gentle and not easily excitable. He spends most of his time with Fernando. He is four years old steer.

He is very handsome. :)

Named by Melinda Feiklowicz

FAITH was born blind. Her KY farmer took her to the sale barn at two days old because of her blindness. At the sale barn, no one wanted to buy her. The last man there paid $25 for her and then left her in a hot hauler in June heat for two days before taking her to a neighbor. Miraculously, and thankfully, the neighbor was able to save her and bring her to us here at TCR. In her first month of life, she took four trips in a scary hauler, ending up someplace new each time. She arrived dazed, confused, and spinning in circles. Denise named her Blind Faith because, most days, that's what it takes to keep this farm running.

Recently, Faith ran into a tree and broke her left horn. She is currently mending and calming down from all of the excitement, which included a trip to the vet. While she was there, she also got her hooves trimmed.

Until the injury, she got along very well without issue, even when things needed to be moved or if she was moved to a new pasture. Her best-case scenario is if she can live close to her humans in a square, boring, no-obstacle pasture where she can remain injury-free. We are currently investigating getting her a halo to protect her horns.

She is a three-year-old heifer. She loves to listen to the radio. She gets along well with other animals, both smaller and larger than her, and as long as they learn that she is blind, then she cohabitates very well.

She loves running and jumping when she gets excited. She loves to be brushed.

Named by Denise Emerson

RUBY was attacked by wild dogs as a young heifer calf and a kind family found her and nursed her back to health. She lost her ears and her tongue didn’t heal properly so she is a big drooler. She grew up in the mountains with horses, and until she came to the rescue, she had never seen grass or met another cow. Despite being the biggest heifer here at the farm, she is the nicest, and she lets the other cows push her around. We have to take extra care to ensure she gets her share of grain and hay. Ruby loves treats and to be brushed. She absolutely wants her fly spray!

I think that Ruby would prefer to live with horses or smaller animals. She currently lives with a sheep and a micro mini calf.

Ruby got her very overgrown and splitting hooves trimmed, but they are in rough shape. She is too heavy and needs to lose weight. Her sore hooves keep her from doing much walking, and not exercising is keeping her too big for her hooves. She weighed in at 1850 and needs to lose quite a bit of weight.

Her previous owner fed her way too much grain. I’ve weaned her off of grain with the exception of ½ a scoop so she can take her NSAID medication for her hooves.

Named by the family who found her as an injured calf

MURPHY is a two-year-old steer and has recently moved to the main pasture with the big cows. A farmer incorrectly told us that he was born blind, and when we picked him up, it was easy to see that wasn’t the case. Murphy had to be taken to the vet immediately and was near death. He had scours, a fever, both eyes and his umbilical cord were infected, and he had the worst case of rain rot that anyone has seen. He would have died without immediate medical care. It took some time to rehabilitate the fella, and we were able to save his eyesight.

I had some massive problems with him as he was going through his teen cow years, but now that he is out with the big moos, he has calmed down, settled in, and is learning to be a big moo. As a calf, he had so much personality and talked more than any cow I’ve met. If he didn’t like something, wanted more milk, food, or hay, he would yell for me until I came outside. Once I arrived, he just looked at me like, “Where HAVE you been?”

Several times I was shooting a video that had nothing to do with him, but he had to be the center of attention and the video. He was so much fun and really kept everyone laughing.

Named by Nicole Maxwell