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Stephen Newell

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Now someone has come up with the notion cows face either north or south when eating. Got to wondering if there was something to it so I started watching. Like I thought cows face every direction when grazing.
 
I wonder how much money the govement siss3d away to figure out tha5 cows blow a lot of wind. To bad a few windy govement bozos can't be sent to 5he same place old cows go.
 
Haven't you seen a cow compass? I know deer have a calendar in the woods so they know when deer season is, and to disappear.
 
I think they've been studying the contents of the spreader too long! I looked out the window about dusk this evening and mine were facing the 4 corners of the map, and every head was down. Its a right pity the stuff those morons write isn't good fertilizer, itd make loading the spreader easier.

Mac
 
What I've found interesting is out west where pastures are large cattle will follow in a line out to where they want to graze then spread out side by side in a line and graze in an almost straight line across the field. Looks like they are a huge swather just mowing the grass down. I've seen this many times while out in places like Ks., Ok., and Tx. They don't seem to do that much at home, I'm wondering if it has to do with the grass.
 
Jeffcat,

It's funny that you mentioned bovine flatulence. It might be that I just have modest cows, but the fact is, I've been in close proximity to hundreds of cows over a many year span of time. During that entire time, I have never one time heard any flatulence, smelled any flatulence, or felt the wind of any flatulence from one single cow.

Have you ever seen any evidence of bovine flatulence?

Now horses are a different matter, but I simply don't believe all of the hoopla that cows are causing global climate change.

Tom in TN
 
That is why I would mention your govement at work! Now I can tell you a good one about cows. Winter time and my dad was milking and he had his coveralls on. He is just reaching in to grab the milker and just as nice as you please she dumped a nice big load right into his pocket!! He didn't even know till he reached in for .......well he had to go empty things out first.
 
Tom, now that you mention it, I can't recall ever hearing a cow poot, and I spent 12 years looking at cow butts in our family dairy. But sometimes you can't hear mine either.
 
The only reason I can think of is the prevailing winds were north-south in that area and the cows were standing with their rumps to the wind.
 
(quoted from post at 19:01:39 10/27/16) Jeffcat,

It's funny that you mentioned bovine flatulence. It might be that I just have modest cows, but the fact is, I've been in close proximity to hundreds of cows over a many year span of time. During that entire time, I have never one time heard any flatulence, smelled any flatulence, or felt the wind of any flatulence from one single cow.

Have you ever seen any evidence of bovine flatulence?

Now horses are a different matter, but I simply don't believe all of the hoopla that cows are causing global climate change.

Tom in TN
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Man you need to visit a fat cattle lot, especially one that feeds corn silage, wake up a few hundred of them first thing in the morning, they get up, stretch, and commence with turbulence that will blow your hat off. Global warming or climate change or whatever they are calling it now is now to political to be taken seriously.
 
I've heard some people called the south end of a cow facing north. So there might be some truth that cows face north.

You want to avoid the south end, especially when cows are eating grass.
 
That came out about 15 years ago. I have watched different herds of cows every since, and I say its cow pie!!!
 
(quoted from post at 23:01:39 10/27/16) Jeffcat,

It's funny that you mentioned bovine flatulence. It might be that I just have modest cows, but the fact is, I've been in close proximity to hundreds of cows over a many year span of time. During that entire time, I have never one time heard any flatulence, smelled any flatulence, or felt the wind of any flatulence from one single cow.

Have you ever seen any evidence of bovine flatulence?

Now horses are a different matter, but I simply don't believe all of the hoopla that cows are causing global climate change.

Tom in TN
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Yup. What bugs me is that same people that are out to destroy the meat eaters of the human world (and that IS the agenda) are the same people that want lots and lots of wildlife...the same wildlife that produces the same gases as any other ruminant. So if we have to get rid of the cows, then we need to get rid of all the other wild bovines, goats, sheep and other ruminants of the sky will fall on us!
 
It's amazing what research the government pays for that just makes no sense. One I read about back in the late 70's or early 80's was on how many "strokes" each type of male mammal takes for their part in reproduction and how many a minute.

Rick
 
I have an image in my mind of a scientist jumping up and down, killing himself laughing, and hollering "MAD YOU LOOK"!
 
Around 1970 I was in an Animal Science class at the U of MN...had to go to a cattle feeders presentation at the Rosemount Experiment Station. Researcher reported on his feeding project. Fed feeders to market weight on three levels of feed...pounds of feed per day. Amazingly, the group that got fewer pounds of feed per day as the study went along- did not do so well! Increasing pounds of feed per day did well. How many research dollars were tied up for months on that stupid plan?
 
Ditto... and if they're on lush grass... and you hear someone cough.. you always look up QUICKLY to make sure you're not in the line of fire...

Rod
 
(quoted from post at 20:27:04 10/27/16) Now someone has come up with the notion cows face either north or south when eating. Got to wondering if there was something to it so I started watching. Like I thought cows face every direction when grazing.
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Before you start thinking it is just a notion I have personally witnessed every single cow in the back of pen 3 standing side by side facing north while eating.

Suppose I should mention the feed bunk is along the north fence in the back of pen 3. :D
 
OK, now that several have jumped onto the 'government spending' band wagon, let me make a few points.
First, the study was conducted by German and Czech scientists. I doubt that the US government funded them.
Second, the study was published by the Academy of the Sciences which is a non-profit existing on private funds.
Finally, the study speaks to wind and other weather conditions but makes the point that the majority of cattle [not all] sense the earth's magnetic field and align their heads to it. The significance is that this is the first case of magnetic sensitivity in large mammals.
 
when a high school friend was milking he had 4 or 5 buckle boots unbuckled the cows were getting lush clover hay the cow behind him had to go right down the back of his boot when he stood up he got a shoe full not a good feeling on a cold winter morning.
 
(quoted from post at 19:07:57 10/28/16) OK, now that several have jumped onto the 'government spending' band wagon, let me make a few points.
First, the study was conducted by German and Czech scientists. I doubt that the US government funded them.
Second, the study was published by the Academy of the Sciences which is a non-profit existing on private funds.
Finally, the study speaks to wind and other weather conditions but makes the point that the majority of cattle [not all] sense the earth's magnetic field and align their heads to it. The significance is that this is the first case of magnetic sensitivity in large mammals.
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Point taken, but lets not pretend our gov't doesn't spend a lot of tax payer money on questionable studies, such as studying the drinking habits of Chinese prostitutes. Justify that one!
 

I don't remember exactly the deal, it was a long time ago, but I grew up in an area with dairy cows everywhere, and while I know that it was not grazing, I know that at some times they would all be standing facing the same way. There could be fifty of them standing all facing the same way, and I know that it was common knowledge at the time. Perhaps it was during a heavy wind driven rain. I do remember that it was unmistakable.
 
HA sounds just like me ,.I Have a strong case of magnetic sensitivity to Liquor and Hott women. LOL
Just kidding Steve but i started laughing when i read that and just had to. LOL
 
Steve in VA:

So, if you have a strong magnetic personality and you go into the field with the cattle, will they all turn towards you? LOL


:>)
 
Not trying to pretend that all government spending is well reasoned and proper; never claimed that and will maintain its not. I'm just trying to stay between the ditches which are on both sides of the road. As to the Chinese study, the funding was for a study to determine if alcohol intervention could prove valuable in preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS and Chinese prostitutes were a ready population, but the results should apply worldwide. There is invariably more to any story than the headlines provide.

Be well.
 
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