The Ochsenknechts are a long-running hit in the tabloid media, with one reality show following the next. What fascinates thousands of people about them? A visit to Cheyenne Ochsenknecht and her family at the Rinderhof.
The vet has one arm up to his shoulder in Bella the cow’s butt. A gold stud in the shape of a cow shines on his earlobe. Nino, Cheyenne Ochsenknecht’s husband, holds up the cow’s tail. Cheyenne shuffles into the stable in a sweater and sweatpants, the corners of her mouth pulled down. A television team consisting of a cameraman, TV editor and soundman stands at a safe distance and films everything. Cheyenne’s dark circles shimmer through under her perfectly applied make-up. At the time of filming she was pregnant with her second child, Matteo. “Fucking migraine, I already took an ibu,” she mutters.
It’s Saturday morning at eight at the Sifkovits-Ochsenknecht family’s house in Dobl, Austria. A rooster struts across the yard through the mud, his head twitching, stretching his neck and crowing. The smell of cow dung and straw is in the air. The vet wants to find out whether the insemination was successful. To do this, he inserted a tiny camera into Bella via a tube. Nino follows what he sees in the cow on a portable screen.
A day like almost any other at the Chianinahof. The Ochsenknechts are really Ochsenknechts now, it’s hard to resist this joke, and they are still used to being accompanied by cameras. The family is a perennial favorite in the tabloid media. When Cheyenne was still a child, her parents, the actor Uwe Ochsenknecht and the model Natascha, took her and her brothers Wilson Gonzales and Jimi Blue to the red carpet. Uwe Ochsenknecht is still one of the most famous actors in Germany today. When he and Natascha Ochsenknecht separated, a mudslinging ensued in the media.