Cows get pampered, massaged and pedicured at Bosnian cow farm

Mooooove over Hilton, there’s a new luxury hotel in town – for cows, that is.

Dairy farmer Jusuf Arifagic, 52, of Kozarac in Bosnia, has created a dairy farm where the cows are pampered.

He believes that happy cows produce more and better milk. Shockingly enough, he may be right.

Even though Bosnia is struggling with poverty, Arifagic still supplies his cows with mattresses to sleep on, a computerized air conditioning/lighting system in the barn and regular baths for the cows. Massages and pedicures are even given to the cows.

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“Nobody should envy my cows. Everybody should just realize that the future is science,” Arifagic told CBC News. The idea to pamper the cows originally stemmed from Norway, where Arifagic lived as a refugee during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war.

Arifagic negotiated for years between the two countries when finally he invested $11 million into his luxurious cow farm. He has 115 Norwegian Red Cows that were imported to him when he started the business four months ago. According to the CBC, Arifagic plans to make his facility the largest in Europe to farm the Norwegian Red Cow, which apparently produces more and better milk.

Arifagic calculates that his pampered cows give five more liters of milk per day than other cows. It may not sound like much, but when you do the math, the expensive technology Arifagic uses to keep these cows happy will pay off in just a few years.

He would prefer if the other Bosnian dairy farmers would follow his lead and pamper their cows so Norway could move some of its dairy production to Bosnia, escaping Norway’s harsh winters and avoiding high heating costs. It could also reduce Bosnia’s unemployment rate, which is now at nearly 40%.

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The barn is equipped with cameras to monitor the cows and computers to regulate the lighting, temperature and air quality. It’s no shock that the cows like to hang out by the six automatic car wash-style brushes that give them a nice massage.

Veterinarian inspector Velibor Kesic believes that Arifagic is making his job much easier by proving to other farmers how to reduce infectious diseases.

The pampered cow facility has even created peace between Serbs and Bosniaks as they both work at Arifagic’s farm.

“We live, work and create here,” Arifagic said. “For the first time since the war, young and educated people are returning to Kozarac.”

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