There is an aura of content among the donkeys, cows, pigs, goats, horses, rabbits and cats at Rosia Kennedy's Rainbow End Farm in Granby.
Kennedy rescued all of the 45 animals at the 8-acre farm from abuse, neglect or slaughter. Today they live in stalls and cages kept spic-and-span by Kennedy, a wiry 4-foot-11-inch woman with short, curly hair flecked with gray.
As Kennedy shows a visitor around, she greets each animal by name. At a stall with a brass label on the door engraved "Joseph Rosia Kennedy," she stops and asks a brown-eyed, 1,300-pound Swiss Jersey steer for a kiss. He gives her a nuzzle and fastens his bulging brown eyes on the visitor. He seems to listen as Kennedy explains that she rescued Joseph when he was 5 days old. He had been born with crippled front legs and was destined to become veal. It took six months of hard work by Kennedy and her friends, bottle-feeding him and teaching him to walk, to save him.
Seven years later, "He is my gentle giant," Kennedy says.
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