Once upon a time there was a little white bull…

Friday 19th October 2007, 12:00AM BST.

A RARE pure white Jersey bull calf was born this week in St John.

Called Cotton Wool, the calf is so unusual that one of the world’s leading authorities on the Jersey breed has never seen one before. Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society president Derrick Frigot said that he had seen Jersey herds all over the world, but never a calf as white as this.

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