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Geo-TH,In

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Cow pee is an environmental problem. But now scientists say calves can be potty-trained.

A herd of clever cattle in Germany have successfully been potty-trained and can now relieve themselves in a designated area nicknamed the MooLoo,
MooLoo
 
I have seen dogs that always went in the same pile inside their kennel. And some of the wild horses in AZ dump in the same pile, but I understand it's stallions marking their territory. Some of the piles are more than a wheelbarrow full!
 
(quoted from post at 09:37:49 09/15/21) Cow pee is an environmental problem. But now scientists say calves can be potty-trained.

A herd of clever cattle in Germany have successfully been potty-trained and can now relieve themselves in a designated area nicknamed the MooLoo,
MooLoo


If cow pee is an "environmental problem", then what are these mental giants going to do about all that nasty wild animal urine? What about fish waste in the oceans?

I think some people have waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy too much time on their hands to dream this stuff up.
 
>Milk cows are potty trained,as soon as you start to milk them they drop the whole load. <

Yep, my dad thought he could train them to pee outside instead of relaxing and letting it all go in the barn. I can't think of one successfully trained cow.
 
>A herd of clever cattle in Germany have successfully been potty-trained and can now relieve themselves in a designated area nicknamed the MooLoo, <

Pigs could be (usually) trained to do their duty outside. All you have to do is wake them up in the morning and chase them outside. That, of course, was before pigs were in a confined area where they don't have room to turn around or move more than one foot forward or back. But when I was growing up on the dairy farm, we had a lot more important things to do then spend an ungodly amount of time trying to teach a cow to pee outside. Congratulations to the bovine trainers.
 
Our cows were trained to dump their load as they exited the barn making a long line on their way out.
Guess who had to clean that up 2x a day?
 

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The greenies can go for a ride on spaceX
and feel good about using a Green Fuel,
Hydrogen.
They think no carbon was made producing
hydrogen.
Think anyone will complain about rich
people going on a 3 day orbit?
 
WOW!!!!!!! Ive wondered for a long time; How can the some researchers be so smart & so dumb at the same time. Only looking at one very small part of the big picture will almost always give you an ignorant solution.
 
Wonder if they can teach them to eat the grass from the back side of a fence post. They do a great job on three sides but I have to run the weed eater on the last side. lol
 
(quoted from post at 15:32:26 09/15/21) The greenies can go for a ride on spaceX
and feel good about using a Green Fuel,
Hydrogen.
They think no carbon was made producing
hydrogen.
Think anyone will complain about rich
people going on a 3 day orbit?

HAR! You got that right George!
 
Urine is primarily urea and water. note that i have used urea in the past to bump up CS protein and that i found in doing so my soluble to insoluble ratios were the same as untreated CS
Our barns had a slope. If i were to build a barn today I'd build a barn with 2 slopes, one with the barn itself with a slight slope, another in the alleyways sloping to gutters of 1-1.5 inches deep that can be swept with a mechanical/industrial broom when the alleys are cleaned and narrow enough that a cow can't walk the gutter.
Placing the gutters between the front and rear legs of cows at the feed bunk and down the middle of stall alleys would further minimum fecal material interfering with the flow of urine down a gutter. I'd scrape and sweep my gutters immediately after moving cows out of an alley way. (Note that I would move cows in 2 stages, minimizing the time in the holding area, crowding cows out of stall areas, enabling them to step up to the feed bunk or enter an open gated holding area, reducing by half the time spent in the holding area would further help capture urine vs having to haul it to a field.)

You might even be able to reduce the amount of urine in the barns manure to the point where the amount of urease is reduced, lowering ammonium losses.

It isn't unusual for holding areas to have separate manure handling systems. It isn't inconceivable that if the amount of urease in the barns manure could be reduced lowering ammonium losses that holding area manure be handled separately from holding area manure.

FYI: The brits are working on taking manure, processing atmospheric Nitrogen and increasing manures nitrogen content by 20%. ON FARM N PRODUCTION that might reduce the purchase of commercial N to zero.
 

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