Farmer Ian Farwell found Liam Brown, 25, with his trousers down, hands on either side of a calf and his hips moving backward and forwards.
Brown had triggered an alarm in the early hours of the night and ran off from the cattle farm in Burton, near Christchurch, Dorset. He jumped several gates only to land in another cow pen where he was trampled on by the animals.
He was caught crying on the ground by Mr Farwell, whose family have owned the farm for 144 years. Brown’s father had previously worked there as a tractor driver for 17 years.
A DNA sample taken from the calf proved sexual intercourse had taken place on June 12 last year.
Mr Farwell, his wife Tracey, son Ralph and daughter Emily devised a plan to catch the pervert and installed CCTV.
On June 12 Mr Farwell heard one of the calves making a ‘distinctive distressed sound’. He checked the CCTV, saw that there was someone in the barn and called his father.
Matthew Mortimer, prosecuting, told Bournemouth Crown Court: ‘The family devised a plan as to what to do if someone was caught in the act, they would assemble surrounding the gates to ensure they could not escape then flick on the light.
‘They believed they may only get one shot.
‘When a cow is distressed it makes quite a distinctive noise. At 11.45pm on June 12 Ralph awoke hearing a calf making that distinctive noise.
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