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Indian women breastfeeds orphaned calf
Chouthi Bai breastfeed a three-day-old calf whose mother had recently died.
Chouthi Bai, a woman from Kilchu village, Rajasthan, who has taken
it upon herself to breastfeed a three- day-old calf whose mother had
recently died. Because of the young age of the animal and a lack of a caregiver, Bai
has spent the last month and a half nurturing the young calf and
breastfeeding it up to three or four times a day. "After her mother died, I held her in my arms and breastfed her,” said
Bai to a Reuters’ reporter. “I nurtured her by feeding her my milk. She
was so young when the cow died. For me there is no difference between a calf and an infant."
According to locals, no one can remember an event like this ever taking
place before and many have noted that the calf now follows after Bai in
a manner similar to a puppy dog. Besides the breastfeeding, Bai says that the calf also receives bread
and grass in the hopes that, “she will grow on this diet. So, even in my
absence she is fed. She will grow up eating grass. The gods will be pleased if I raise her.”
The Sacred Cow
In the Hindu religion cow is worshiped like a goddess and Sacred in India .Cow is a protected animal in Hinduism.
Cows nourish the children and family as a whole and gives us many products as milk, curds, ghee butter, urine and dung that are used in
various forms of worship.
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