India Farmer Has Cow That Eats Chickens
Pastor Dale Morgan
India Farmer Has Cow That Eats Chickens*
The Associated Press
Thursday, March 8, 2007; 4:01 PM
CALCUTTA, India -- When his chickens started disappearing a few weeks
ago, a farmer in eastern India figured dogs or jackals were to blame _
until he discovered his calf making a meal of his poultry.
Moloy, who uses only one name, and his 1-year-old calf have since become
local celebrities, with the carnivorous cow appearing on television in
India's West Bengal state and hundreds of people flocking to see them in
Chandipur, a village 145 miles southwest of Calcutta, the state capital.
"To catch the culprit, Moloy got up very early ... and to his disbelief
found that it was his calf which came out from the cow shed and was
eating the chickens alive," Debjyoti Chatterjee, a local resident who
filmed the calf eating a chicken, said Thursday.
The local veterinarian was at a loss for an explanation.
"I've never read or heard about cows turning carnivorous," said Mihir
Tripathy. "They eat grass and other vegetarian food but not fish or
other non-vegetarian stuff."