US EditionFarm Family Opens Home to Cold Calf
The Sorrell family used a blow dryer to warm the calf after losing one to frostbite last winter, protecting the newborn during single-digit temperatures, they said.
- On Jan. 24, 2026, Tanner and Macey Sorrell brought a struggling newborn calf into their Mount Sterling, Kentucky home during a deep freeze.
- Concern about frostbite and last winter's calf loss prompted the family to bring the newborn inside during the deep freeze.
- They warmed the calf with a blow dryer and fed her inside the house, with Gregory Sorrell, 3‑year‑old son, naming her Sally. The calf snuggled on the family couch.
- After one night indoors, the calf was returned to its mother, and the family said `there's always room for one more` in their home.
- Published photos by the Associated Press show the calf inside the house, credited to Macey Sorrell; the Sorrell family keeps cows and sometimes brings animals indoors.
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Farmers took in a freezing calf. Their kids cuddled up with her.
Snow and freezing rain were falling fast on Tanner Sorrell’s family farm in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Tanner went out to check on a pregnant cow and saw that she had already given birth but was struggling to clean her newborn calf. “I don’t know what it is about bad weather, but it seems like it triggers labor,” Tanner said, adding that another calf had been born a few nights before. The other new mother had been able to clean off her calf and w…
A newborn calf struggled with the freezing cold in Kentucky, and its family brought it inside and warmed it up.
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Newborn calf welcomed inside during deep freeze to cuddle on couch
This Kentucky family said there's always room for one more in their home.
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