A Vermont college has euthanized one of its farm oxen that have been at the center of an uproar following the college's decision to process the animals into meat products following their retirement from the college's farm.

Vermont's Green Mountain College has postponed the slaughter of two oxen because of threats made to local slaughterhouses from animal rights groups.

About 15 protesters demonstrated at Green Mountain College Friday in a last ditch effort to save Bill and Lou - a pair of oxen that have worked on the campus farm for ten years.

A Facebook petition asking Green Mountain College to spare the school's beloved oxen team from slaughter has racked up more than 30,000 signatures from all over the world. But school officials say they won't change their mind.

The days are numbered for two oxen that have worked the fields at Vermont's Green Mountain College farm for more than a decade.

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While other college students are in stuffy classrooms, about a dozen are earning credit tending a Vermont farm.