Creating a Kinder World for Dairy Cows & their Babies
Giving unwanted
newborn dairy calves
a second chance at life.
Due to the pressure for cows to continue to produce milk, every year in Australia hundreds of thousands of newborn calves are born. The majority of female calves are kept as replacements for the milk producing herd, while most males are considered wastage or by-products.
Each year around 800,000 of these newborn calves are born, taken from their mother shortly after birth and either killed on-farm or sent for commercial slaughter within just 5 days of life.
They were never meant to grow up.
Meet some of the lucky ones
Our Biggest Rescue Ever
Fern
Born blind and given almost no chance — meet Fern. →
Born together, rescued together, and still inseparable — meet Missy and Bart. →Missy & Bart
Companion Cows is a not-for-profit, registered charity that rescues, rehabilitates, rehomes, and represents dairy cows and their babies.
