The cattle are lowing...

Berry McPaper-cuts Full Member Posts: 27,075 Mood: FP Swim	The cattle are lowing... Dec 17, 2014 8:00:13 GMT Yorko likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Dec 17, 2014 8:00:13 GMT What a wonderful article! There is so much we do not know about the maternal instinct. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11297269/Cows-communicate-using-individual-sounds-like-human-names.html
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Deleted Posts: 0	The cattle are lowing... Dec 17, 2014 8:45:34 GMT Yorko, Berry McPaper-cuts, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2014 8:45:34 GMT And people think they're just dumb animals! Surprises me that people ever thought that they don't have feelings.

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Being a farmer's daughter ... a dairy farm when I was a child ... I love cows. They are such gentle creatures by nature. Beautiful big eyes. They're actually very intelligent and instinctively know its time for milking and where their place in the milking parlour is. And whether they go in first or second.

Baby Tink loved the farm as a toddler and had no fear of these huge animals. He didn't need to have. They were well cared for, placid and happy.

There is the heart breaking side to dairy farming where the calves are taken from their mums but that was kept to a minimum on our farm and the calves were then reared by surrogate mums who took on their adopted babies happily. Our calves were never bred for veal. Or sold for veal production.

Frazz Full Member Posts: 20,284	The cattle are lowing... Dec 17, 2014 14:21:18 GMT Yorko likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Frazz on Dec 17, 2014 14:21:18 GMT Yorko could have told them that lol!
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Deleted Posts: 0	The cattle are lowing... Dec 17, 2014 16:29:59 GMT Yorko likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2014 16:29:59 GMT The Coglet wanted to be a vet till he saw a programme where the vet had to stick his arm up a cows jacksy

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My city boy (then) husband nearly fainted when he watched me inching a tractor forwards with a rope tied to the tractor and the other end tied to the feet of a calf during a difficult birth. The farmer's version of a forceps delivery! Believe me driving the tractor was the easy bit. My mum and I were often called on during calving. Our hands and forearms were much smaller.

Berry McPaper-cuts Full Member Posts: 27,075 Mood: FP Swim	The cattle are lowing... Dec 17, 2014 18:58:08 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Dec 17, 2014 18:58:08 GMT Did you watch "All Creatures Great & Small" Tinks or was that too like a busman's holiday?
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