The York Fair hosts many an adorable baby animal. My favorite has spindly legs and a baby bottle bigger than his head.
At Toyota Arena, a popular pen near livestock judging Ring No. 1 holds a snorting calf named Boo, a 3-month-old, chestnut-colored buffalo (American Bison, technically).
Like Buffy (in a file photo, above, with owner Tupper Sverduk), Boo comes from Forge Hill Farms, a beef farm in East Manchester Township. Visitors can pat his woolly coat, and, at 6 p.m. daily, take turns holding Boo's 2.5-pint bottle as he sucks down the milk.
Bison calves are usually weaned at 7 months. The animals can live to be 30, but those raised for meat are slaughtered before age 2 for tenderness.
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