Many
devotees have written to Mother Cow and asked
her about our program for protecting bulls and
oxen.
Yes, we do protect the bulls and oxen as much
as we protect the cows, but at the present time
we have limited facilities such as land, pasture,
and barn space to keep more than two bull calves.
So what have we done with the bulls born in our
goshala over the past years? This is a big question
because everyone knows that when the bulls go
out the gate that they are almost certain to be
sent to the slaughter house sooner or later. If
you are not protecting the bulls, the father of
society, then what is the meaning to a cow protection
project? This is a legitimate question!
We are indeed very fortunate at Mother Cow Goshala,
possibly more so than some other devotee goshalas,
because we have a Big Brother Goshala in Mysore
called Pinjapol that is operated by the Jain community.
They have vast lands and monetary resources for
both cow and bull protection. We have an arrangement
with Pinjapol and after our bulls are one year
old they are transferred to that goshala where
it is guaranteed that they will be protected for
life.
When we are able to increase our lands then Mother
Cow Goshala will be able to keep all her bulls,
but in the meantime the Pinjapol people are protecting
Krishna's bulls for us and we feel that this is
Krishna's arrangement for the present.
We have several oxen related programs under development.
One is the gober gas digester that will be set
up near to the ashram kitchen and an oxen will
be engaged three times a day pulling a cart load
of gober from the barn to the digester. We are
also getting another ox-cart that will be used
for sankirtan in the villages and also to take
children and visitors for rides around our land.
Within a couple of months we feel that our bull
and oxen program will have improved and by the
grace of Krishna we will be able to continue improving
our program for the satisfaction of Govinda, the
Supreme Protector of Cows.
If you have any questions or suggestions of how
we can better our cow protection program please
don't hesitate to contact
Mother Cow. Moooooooo!