Apple The Cow Sells For $1 Million At Auction

[BERIGAN]

Apple The Cow Sells For $1 Million At Auction

Animal Could Be Most Expensive Cow Ever Sold In U.S.

POSTED: 3:43 pm EDT July 30, 2008

UPDATED: 3:49 pm EDT July 30, 2008

LITCHFIELD, Conn. -- Apple was certainly the apple of someone's eye. The cow was sold for $1 million Monday at an auction in Connecticut.

When the 4-year-old show cow paraded in front of 800 onlookers down the runway at Arethusa Farm, bidding started at $200,000.

A small group of partners from Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin placed the winning bid, reported NBC Hartford, Conn., station WVIT.

Representatives of the farm said Apple could be the most expensive cow ever sold in this country.

The reason for the steep price tag is her genes, her breeding potential and her rare red color, the television station reported.

"She has the ability now to make black and white daughters or red and white daughters that could sell. In fact we sold five daughters of her yesterday as well, separately," said Terri Packard, manager of Arethusa Farm.

The 5-month-old calves sold for as much as $160,000 each.

"So her pedigree and her physical structure are what make her very marketable and the fact that she's red is the icing on the cake," Packard said.

Apple is heading to Wisconsin on Wednesday to get back to work as a milking cow and embryo producer. That is how her new owners hope the investment pays off.

http://www.wnbc.com/news/17040832/detail.html

[Willard]

http://www.afunk.com/mammals/cows/

oops

http://www.mad-cow.org/

Edited July 31, 2008 by Willard

[Man with the Golden Arm]

at least it won't get those pesky malicious viruses.

[RDK]

And I thought the payday was due to her willingness to show her teats.

[Jim Alfredson]

So when is Apple Computer going to sue for trademark infringment?