Holy cow!

The earthquake that shook New Zealand on Monday triggered a small tsunami, dangerous landslides — and left these three head of cattle stranded on a tiny island of grass.

Helicopter footage taken near the small farming town of Kaikoura showed the two adult beef cows and one calf huddled on the patch of land, moo-ing for help, after the magnitude 7.5 earthquake wiped out the surrounding pasture.

Local rescuers were forced to dig a trench in order to free the family of bovines, according to Newshub.

“We dug a track with a number of people — the soil was quite soft because it had all been tipped over and bumbled around, we managed to get a track in and bring them out,” the cows’ owner told the New Zealand news service. “The problem was we weren’t sure if there was going to be another earthquake, and we weren’t sure if it was going to continue to slide.”

The farmer said the three cows were part of a herd of 14 on the property — which was almost completely flat before the earthquake.

“It was very steep limestone bluff covered in lovely pasture a week ago and now it’s all in the gully,” he said, adding that his “docile cows” were lucky to be alive.

“They desperately needed water. Cows don’t like living without water so that was the first requirement, and I think one or two had lost calves in the earthquake so they were a bit distressed.”

Newshub camera operator Chris Jones — who shot the now-viral video of the bovines — said he tried his best not to spook the creatures as he hovered overhead.

“We didn’t want to scare them off by getting too close in the helicopter, hence why the shots are taken from a while away,” he said. “We’ve done a good deed by filming them – but it wasn’t just me, it was a team effort.”