Delbur never acted like an ordinary cow.
Since he was a calf, he played with balls, mooed at visitors, and greeted delivery drivers as if he were just another dog on the Holzwarths’ farm in Michigan. Shiane and her family had bought him during the pandemic along with another steer, with a simple plan: to raise them for meat. But on the day of the slaughter, while the other animal resisted getting into the trailer, Delbur walked in alone, trusting, unaware of what was going to happen.
Shiane cried the entire way. Her husband drove and joked about her crying, never imagining that fate had another plan. At the slaughterhouse, the butcher examined Delbur and said he was too small and needed to gain more weight. The reason: because of his gentle nature, he always let the other animals eat first.
That sentence gave him his life back. Shiane loaded him onto the trailer again, but this time he was headed home, to stay. Today, Delbur is still running, jumping, and seeking affection just like on the first day.
