This cow was on the moooove.

A wayward cow ran wild Tuesday morning on the Major Deegan Expressway for more than a half-hour, snarling traffic, before the bovine was ultimately corralled by cops.

The NYPD received a 911 call from a motorist shortly before 11:30 a.m. reporting that the cattle, believed to be an 8-month-old calf, was wandering on the northbound side of the busy highway near Exit 6.

Cops from the department’s elite Emergency Service Unit responded to the scene and took the brown cow into custody just after noon.

“I saw the cops chasing it,” said nearby resident and witness Lee Carr, 21. “It was coming from north to south on the Deegan….it seemed like they were just trying to keep it from getting hit by traffic.”

Carr added that police “were struggling” with the cow.

The animal “was kicking and moving and they eventually got him down, but he was breathing hard.”

Officers were spotted trying to give the cow water from small bottles as it laid on the side of the highway.

The bizarre turn of events came to an end when a team of cops hauled the tied up cow into an NYPD Mounted Unit carrier at around 1 p.m. and drove off.

Carr called the incident “pretty crazy,” as he added, “You see lots of accidents over here, but you never see cows running around.”

Another local wondered: “Where the hell does a cow come from that it ends up on the highway?”

“I hope that poor animal pulls through,” the woman, who did not want to be named, said.

It was not immediately clear where the cow came from or how it wound up roaming around on the Major Deegan Expressway.

After the animal’s wild highway jaunt, it was taken to Manhattan’s Animal Care Center before it was turned over to the Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue Wantage, New Jersey.

“The future is looking awesome for the cow,” Mike Stura, the founder of the animal sanctuary told The Post.

Stura said the cow, which he noted “looks healthy” aside from a couple of scrapes, is slated to spend his “days out on a farm with nothing expected of him except a good life.”

The animal sanctuary founder admitted that it was a “weird spot” for the cow to be found.

“I can’t even guess what happened,” Stura said. “I don’t know of many markets nearby that he would have escaped [from].”

The cow incident comes after a goat was found roaming the Bronx on Sunday and after a lamb was discovered wandering around the Gowanus Expressway days earlier.

Both the goat and the lamb were also taken to Skylands to live out their lives, according to Stura.