A farm in Wisconsin is quickly becoming hallowed ground with the birth of its third white buffalo, an animal considered sacred by many tribes for its potential to bring good fortune and peace. Owner David Heider said "We took one look at it and I can't repeat what I thought but I thought, Here we go again". Thousands of people stopped by Heider's Janesville farm after the birth of the first white buffalo, a female named Miracle who died in 2004 at the age of 10. The second was born in 1996 but died after three days. Heider said he discovered the third white buffalo, a newborn male, after a storm in late August. Over the weekend, about 50 American Indians held a drum ceremony to honor the calf, which has yet to be named, he said. Floyd "Looks for Buffalo" Hand, a medicine man in the Oglala Sioux Tribe in Pine Ridge, S.D., said it was fate that the white buffaloes chose one farm, which will likely become a focal point for visitors, who make offerings such as tobacco and dream catchers in the hopes of earning good fortune and peace.

"That's destiny," he said. "The message was only choose one person." The white buffalo is particularly sacred to the Cheyenne, Sioux and other nomadic tribes of the Northern Plains that once relied on the buffalo for subsistence. According to a version of the legend, a white buffalo, disguised as a woman wearing white hides, appeared to two men. One treated her with respect, and the other didn't. She turned the disrespectful man into a pile of bones, and gave the respectful one a pipe and taught his people rituals and music. She transformed into a female white buffalo calf and promised to return again.

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Nothing to see here people. Obviously, the recessive albino gene is resident within this herds genome. What was one in a million births, through selective breeding (one bull impregnating 500 cows) the gene makes it maybe one in a thousand (or less).

Nothing special about white buffalos or the ranch the are born in.

Other than its sure cuteness!!

Too bad they don't know which animals have the gene.

It does look delicious.

If it hadn't already died they could breed the white bufflo with the others and make the albino gene have a higher probability of birthing another white albino and possibly make a whole herd if they follow that breeding plan.

Its nice to see the Native Americans still honouring their traditions

The Great White Buffalo,

comin'around to make a final stand.

Well, look out here he comes.

The great white buffalo, baby

OOOOOOOO!!!!! Hopefully White Buffalo Woman will come again!!!!!

(I am 1/3 Lakota)

Now now, lower your knife and fork!

OK , It's NOT an Albino! It is white and brown and will change to all brown. Albinos have no pigment and would stay White.

Back to 8th. grade biology class for ALL of You!

P.S. Wife says eat one of the Brown ones you sicko's , caveman type people! Leave the "PRETTY ONE" alone! ( Better do it , she gets mean!

Thats BROWN.

I heard on the local news that the buffalo was killed the other night by lightning the rancher said. So, guess that's got to be a bad omen or something to the natives? I'll look for a link.

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Lightning strike kills white buffalo

Lightning on Sunday night struck and killed two buffalo cows and three buffalo calves, including a white buffalo-Miracle's Second Chance-on the Heider farm south of Janesville, Dave Heider said this morning.

Heider discovered the five dead buffalo when he went to check on the animals this morning before going to work.

The white calf's mother was walking around and grunting, so Heider followed her up the hill where he found the five dead buffalo with burn marks laying near a tree.

He thinks it was one lightning strike that hit all five and the nearby tree.

The farm became a destination for thousands of visitors after Miracle, a female white buffalo, was born there on Aug. 20, 1994. In 1995, visitors to the Heider farm increased tourism to Rock County by 22 percent.

White buffalo are extremely rare and are said to fulfill a Native American legend foretelling peace.

Miracle died in 2004 and is now stuffed in the Heider gift shop.

A male white buffalo was born on the farm Aug. 25 this year.

"How many times in a lifetime does lighting strike?" Heider said to The Janesville Gazette after the second birth.

Sunday's storm answered his question, again.

Earlier this year, lightning struck a couple of his Scottish Highlander cows, Heider said, but it had never happened to any of his buffalo.

He said they figured they'd better "call it in and get it on the news wire" so people wanting to visit the white buffalo wouldn't be surprised.

"I suppose it's going to be a great loss to a lot of people," he said.

Since the August birth, "a lot of people" have called about visiting the farm, including people from Canada, he said.

Sunday night's thunderstorm brought 0.24 inches of rain to the area.

"It's just coincidence, I guess, that lightning struck twice," he said. "He (Miracle's Second Chance) was born in a storm and died in a storm."

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I guess the peace sign is kind of screwy now.