seperate the cows based on color?????

purplekisses said:

You really wanna know ...ok here goes ... black cows eat more grass than brown ones and tan ones drink more water than black ones. If we'd put them together, we'd risk the brown ones to starve to death and the black ones to dehydrate. Since the tan ones are only used for their meat, and we all love cream, this is the ideal solution.

One4All4Ever said:

i want facts

purplekisses said:

come to europe ... I'll show u

the final and only correct answer is ... they are different breeds ... some cows are only used for milk, others for milk and meat, and some for meat only. It's only logical that a farmer chooses one of three goals and breeds his cows for that purpose and that's why you won't see different breeds grazing together.

Still you gotta come to europe

i've got references but they're in Dutch only ... I'll translate them while having a beer on a terrace in the beautiful town of Bruges

Steadwood said:

then why don't they do that to horses

purplekisses said:

Cos horses are fade resistant

One4All4Ever said:

Huey zegt Je moet geen ouwe koeien uit de sloot halen.

Koetje boe.

Mafste thread van de week. En het is pas dinsdag.

HamsterHuey said:

only n engrish please

Steadwood said:

Are not, at least not the white ones. Unless they're albino they start out as black and then fade off more and more towards white with every year.

L4OA is right though, it's not very common to have more than one breed unless you have both beef and dairy cattle. Beef cattle would totally ruin the dairy ones and vice versa.

Teacher said:

That's because they haven't been washed in Persil Clour Care

http://www.persil.co.uk/P...rCare.aspx







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I think you guys are being cow-cist.






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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

exactly..... i was so upset when i was over there and see the poor cows seperated like that.....

purplekisses said:

You'll want geese, swans, elephants and Rhinos in with em next

when did you take a trip?


lol and i don't think the whole cow thing is specific to europe
did you see cabo's baby threads?

Steadwood said:

and why not???

but cows should be mixed unless there is some scientific proof as to why they should be separated then i say they are evil to separate a cow by the color of their skin

emm said:

i took a trip like 9 yrs ago but this came back to me over the last week i guess with all the dang crazy ass peeps n chat now cause U know that lill mo fo is over there.... anyway.....and yes i seen the pics i told him to post them to bad its almost a year later and we finally get to see his son

ok woman if you want me to go all "country girl" on you i will

there are some characteristics within different breeds that different
producers find desireable. ease of calving, high birthweight calves,
good mothering, ease of handling, nice marbling of meat or it could be
as simple as they prefer one breed because they like the way they look.

there are others that try to get the best of both breeds by using
one breed for a sire in a herd full of another breed. hybrid vigor, if you will.
even still, the resulting generation of calves will generally all look similar
as they have been bred by the same bull.

you could use a multi-breed bull with multi-breed cows but then you
tend to loose the favorable characteristics that you liked in that
breed in the first place. you end up with some small calves and some big,
some gentle cows and some really nasty ones, some good mothers and some not.
you get the idea

:cowgirl:

emm said:

its still racist







i was told it was cause of the milk


1 for cream, then milk then other dairy products

welllll... you do need brown cows to get chocolate milk...

Its a regular Cowtastrophy

wow.

emm said:

IAintTheOne said:

that's gonna cost U

purplekisses said:

Well they mixed all elephants and Rhinos up onece and look what happened

...Now they are all grey and boring

...Do you REALlY want that to happen to cows too?

(I'm begining to believe myself here)

somebody needs to cure pk from her obsession