Roaming over twenty acres of lush, green pasture at SASHA Farm are our largest ruminants; the cattle residents. Our main herd of various breeds are living happy and healthy lives, free and safe from the abuse and neglect they once knew. Read more about their amazing rescue stories below!
Meet MacGregor
This incredibly gorgeous Highland has a truly heartwarming story about how he became a beloved member of the SASHA Farm family. MacGregor’s journey began at the Detroit Zoo, where he lived alongside two farm animal pals. As he grew, so did his stunning horns, and with it came a need for more space to roam and stretch out. Around the same time, SASHA Farm had an ostrich resident who was struggling with depression and loneliness, unable to find solace in his current surroundings.
Meet Bhima
Bhima is a Gyr ox. He was born in November of 2010 and weighs about 2,200 pounds. The breed is originally from India, and the hump on their backs is composed of tissue/fat – different from a camel’s hump – and is used as nourishment if food is scarce. Bhima and his brother, Dharma, were being raised on a Michigan farm to be used for pulling a plow. The owner of the farm sold the property to a man who did not want cows. Unable to find another farm to place the cows, the owner eventually agreed to surrender them to SASHA Farm. Bhima and Dharma arrived at SASHA in August, 2013. Sadly, Dharma passed away a few months after arriving, suffering from chronic pneumonia, but Bhima has flourished and is loved by all! Due to an infection, Bhima’s horns had to be removed, in a difficult and rare operation by the Michigan State University Veterinary Hospital. His name means “tremendous”.
Meet Daisy and Lucky
Daisy, a Black Angus, was pregnant when she came to SASHA in June of 2014, was rescued from a backyard butcher who was running a small slaughterhouse in Riga, Mich. She was kept alive for the sole purpose of producing calves for meat. Daisy had given birth to three calves before her rescue. Knowing humans only as the people responsible for taking her babies away from her, Daisy was understandably averse to humans upon being rescued by SASHA staff. After six days at SASHA, she gave birth to Lucky.
Meet Daisy Belle
Daisy Belle is a female Holstein, born on a dairy farm. She was born with a male twin. The male was removed by the farmer to be raised and sold for meat, but Daisy Belle was found to be sterile, in addition to having congenital cataracts. She was put in a pen, not fed, and left to die. A kindly neighbor convinced the farmer to let her take the calf. Daisy Belle arrived at SASHA at the age of only three weeks and was bottle fed for many months. She had many health issues, including pneumonia. Although she will always be small, she has regained her health and is very playful and curious about everything around her. Although she will always be little lamb (now grown up sheep) Suzy’s best friend, she now runs in the pasture with the “big boys” Bhima and the Jersey Five and really holds her own!
Meet Mr Rogers
Mr. Rogers is a magnificent looking Salers/Red Angus mixed breed, brown-ish red, with rather small horns. He was born at SASHA Farm on August 20, 2010, one week after his mother Bella escaped a transport truck packed with cows on their way to be slaughtered. Bella survived the crash and ran off. Monte Jackson and Bob Harvie from SASHA were called in to help, and they picked her up near Grand Rapids, MI. She joined the SASHA Family the next day, very thin and hardly able to walk. At the time she was pregnant, but no one was aware of her pregnancy.
Meet Norman
Norman lived on a small farm in SE Michigan, where he was a companion to a senior horse. After the horse passed away, Norman was lonely and grieving, so his compassionate owner brought him to SASHA, where he could live forever with other cows and horses. He is a handsome, loving member of the SASHA Family. Not to be confused with Norman the donkey.
