MARION, Minn. – After winds carried away a barn on the Borst dairy farm southeast of Rochester, Lindsey Borst went with a flashlight to assess the damage. Fifty cows had made it out of the barn, including one that had been very pregnant. But where was the calf? Inside the barn, amid the destruction, Borst’s flashlight beam caught the new calf lying miraculously alive and lying unscathed. They named him Rubble. “He’ll probably get a little extra TLC, a little extra attention,” Borst told television station KTTC. “Otherwise he’ll just get to join the rest of the calves and get cared for as well as they do.”
On a milder day. Lindsey Borst talks bovine with a Holstein.
Borst dairy farm
The Borsts raise 30 Holstein cows and grow 1,100 acres of corn, soybeans and alfalfa. On a security camera from their storm shelter. they had seen the barn collapse. “You kind of get chills watching it, because you can see how scared you are and you feel really bad for them, but it’s kind of a miracle,” Lindsey Borst said.