{"id":38108,"date":"2020-07-31T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/students-alumni-clamor-to-take-care-of-universitys-cows\/"},"modified":"2020-07-31T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:47:00","slug":"students-alumni-clamor-to-take-care-of-universitys-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/students-alumni-clamor-to-take-care-of-universitys-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"#Students, alumni clamor to take care of university\u2019s cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Students, alumni clamor to take care of university\u2019s cows<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        BURLINGTON, Vt. \u2014 When the coronavirus pandemic forced the University of Vermont to close and send its students home, the alarm spread:<\/p>\n<p>What would h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en to the cows?<\/p>\n<p>The university\u2019s beloved herd of about 100 dairy cows is normally tended by students taking part in the Cooperative for Real Education in Agricultural Management program, or CREAM. And without those students, the fate of the cows seemed to be in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>In no time, dozens of CREAM alumni and students clamored to spend their spring and summer caring for the Holsteins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would rather do nothing else than this over the summer,\u201d said recent graduate Claudia Sacks, of Macungie, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent hot weekday, she rose in the dark to help milk the cows at 3:30 am. By early afternoon she was shoveling out the calves\u2019 stalls. When she sees her favorite cow, Lazlo, she hugs her around the neck and gives her a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve learned so much from them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve taught me how to be a kind person and how to love other people. You go into the barn and you see one of the cows licking another cow and it\u2019s just, I don\u2019t know, just a sense of sisterhood almost between them so it\u2019s really lovely to see the family that they\u2019ve formed between themselves but also the family that we can form with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3trAE6Ry3z0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" title=\"Video\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The other six students are passionate, too, about the animals and hope to go to veterinary school. They know the cows by name, how much milk each one is giving, who each cow\u2019s sire is, who she\u2019s bred to and when she\u2019s due to calve, said faculty adviser and veterinarian Dr. Steve Wadsworth.<\/p>\n<p>Many have other jobs as well and are working at the farm because they have a passion for animals and agriculture, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese cows as well cared for as any animals in Vermont, maybe any animals in the country,\u201d he said. \u201cThese students love these cows to pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it shows, as they talk to the cows while guiding them into the milking parlor, or try to move a cow\u2019s leg while attaching the tubes of the automatic milking machine to her teats. They milk the cows twice a day, feed them and the calves, muck the barns and help with births, any time of the day or night.<\/p>\n<p>Amid a pandemic, some workers said they are glad to have meaningful chores and to be with the animals.<\/p>\n<p>The herd manager, Matt Bodette, couldn\u2019t be more grateful. He was inundated with calls and text messages from students and alumni wanting to help or checking in on the farm. Probably 70 to 80 wanted to take up the work, but UVM only needed seven workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have really, really shined in every single way possible and I am, I will never forget them,\u201d Bodette said, choking up. \u201cThey\u2019ve been like a little family for me and I\u2019m truly grateful.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Living <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/31\/students-alumni-clamor-to-take-care-of-universitys-cows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Students, alumni clamor to take care of university\u2019s cows&#8221; BURLINGTON, Vt. \u2014 When the coronavirus pandemic forced the University of Vermont to close and send its students home, the alarm spread: What would happen to the cows? 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