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Boring old cattle pictures

Not to start a arguement but I just read where hay rolled out wastes about 12% and hay processed wastes about 19%. I know from experience that doing it the way Soap says by stringing it out with the truck seems to waste the least if your feeding good hay. Green feed seems to be another story as the cows clean up the stems much better if proccessed.
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
Not to start a arguement but I just read where hay rolled out wastes about 12% and hay processed wastes about 19%. I know from experience that doing it the way Soap says by stringing it out with the truck seems to waste the least if your feeding good hay. Green feed seems to be another story as the cows clean up the stems much better if proccessed.
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When the weather is bitter cold, it is very hard to give a cow enough "processed" hay to fill them up. They will sure eat forty pounds a day. I don't think they can eat that much if the hay is rolled out, and it is left long-stemmed.

Alfalfa is good to use as a protein source, but if I am short of hay and looking to just fill up a hungry cow's belly, I would much rather buy meadow hay. It sure seems to go a lot farther.
 
ropesanddogs said:
I read in a magazine in a sale barn lobby once about cowlick placement,and wildness.The higher it is,the wilder they said.Anyone else heard of this?I think its bs,but what an idea to come up with,couldnt you just imagine some ole man at the sale sayin "nope,aint buyin her,her cowlick is too high.." :shock:
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Well, Ropesanddogs, I was at a sale one time and I heard a Rancher talking about the cowlicks, and he refused to bid on a bull for the reason that it's cowlick was too high! I have heard this from more than one source, and from some pretty respectable cowmen. Experience is a very good teacher, and I will try to learn from any source that I can. Check it out on your own cattle and see if there is any validity to it!

The 'cowlick" or "crown of the head" is formed from the Notochord - a rod-shaped body below the primitive groove of the embryo and also called the "cauda dorsalis" and can be likened as the precourser of the spinal cord and later, in the development of higher vertebrates, is surrounded and replaced by the vertebral column. Any problem, or "mal-function" in the orderly and normal development of the embryo can result in disturbances in natural correct development of the fetus and subsequently cause 'trouble' in the full term live delivered offspring (in Mammals and Human Beings.) The 'crown' or 'cowlick' is a part of that embryonic manifestation. It is claimed by some investigators that 'left-handed people have crowns or cowlicks different than right-handed people, but I have not concentrated on that aspect of it. In my Chiropractic practice I have seen Down Syndrome patients with all kinds of 'hair' anomolies and multiple crown's or cowlicks. I have learned during my lifetime that almost nothing is impossible!

DOC HARRIS
 
As for a cowlick on the top of a cows head goes, I have seen a cow that was as tame as a dog. She loved to have her back scratched as well as the top of her head. Wished we could have bought her from the old boss, but........ Hubby called her Blondie and was she ever nice. Why once she even came between me and a couple of bulls that were dinkin' around. :shock: :o She knew where she got her cake after that, she ate right out of your hand. :!: :wink: :!: :wink: :lol:And she raised a really nice calf, too.
 

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