Cows.

[born_2_fly]

cows need to be pregnant to get milked, and once the calf is born it sucks her dry

Cows can be milked anytime, if a cow has just had a calf, it is still milked, but the milk isn't used in the milk you would buy in the store.

[Fozzer]

....."Meat Cows" are actually steers, which are castrated males.

......Hands up all those wishing to become "Meat Cows".... ....?

Paul...A pair of bricks at the ready.... ...!

Ouch...

It brings tears to your eyes Ash, just thinking about it... ...!

Tee-Hee... ...!

Paul...with a very high-pitched voice... ...!

[Mobius]

cows need to be pregnant to get milked, and once the calf is born it sucks her dry

Cows can be milked anytime, if a cow has just had a calf, it is still milked, but the milk isn't used in the milk you would buy in the store.  I've got a cousin with a dairy farm and they milk 200 cows twice a day.

Wrong.
Cows operate in the same way as humans (albeit only females) They only produce milk when they have had a calf, after calving the calf is removed and fed on formula milk (and before anyone says this is harsh, the formula milk is actually better for the growing calf, it contains more nutrients and more protein) The cow (or Heifer if they have only had 1 child, or no children previously) is then milked twice a day until they finish producing milk, obviously this time period is prolonged if the cow is milked twice a day, as the body thinks there is more demand, and so produces more. This milk IS sold in shops.
On our farm the cows have 1 calf a year, and have a downtime of around 3 months, when they are not producing milk, they spend this time out in the fields eating grass.

In the mean time the calves are either allowed to mature before being put back into the heard (girls), or sold on the become 'sweeper' bulls in other farms (boys)

Hope that gave some insight into the life of a cow  ;)  :P

Alex

(And BTW, before anyone asks, I do live on a farm, and my Dad is a farmer  :D)

Oh, my cousin was just explaining it to me the other day, that they milk all 200 of their cows every day, and the one's that just had a calf are still milked, but the milk is fed to the calves instead.  Maybe it's done differently here, oh well, I'm just a carpenter, I'll stick to building houses and leave the milking to everyone else.

[Mushroom_Farmer]

[quote]Hello there,
           

[Mobius]

Wow, I'll just stop, maybe I'm not remembering what I hear correctly, and I'm just making an idiot of myself.

[flyboy 28]

I'd take Mike's word for it. He's from Wisconsin. They like the moo juice up there.

[Mobius]

I'd take Mike's word for it. He's from Wisconsin. They like the moo juice up there.

Thanks for the vote of confidence James, but I'd listen to the people who actually live and work on farms here, I don't live on a dairy farm, but a lot of my relatives do, and I must have misheard/misinterpreted what we heard the other day when my cousin was giving the tour of their huge new barn.  I'll just stick to pounding nails and doing my homework.

[dcunning30]

Cows fart and the polar ice caps melt.

I shall make a movie.

[expat]

....."Meat Cows" are actually steers, which are castrated males.

......Hands up all those wishing to become "Meat Cows".... ....?

Paul...A pair of bricks at the ready.... ...!


P.S. My County of Herefordshire is famous for its White-faced Hereford cattle, (which you will spot in many American "Cowboy" films)... 8-)...!

http://www.herefordcattle.org/

What ever you do Fozzer, make sure you have your thumbs tucked in when you swing those bricks  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Matt

[ozzy72]

I don't remember any of the cows on my great-uncles farm in Australia exploding. Charlie the bull was always trying to dig a hole to China but other than that the biggest danger came from me trying to hit them with golf balls

[BFMF]

I don't remember any of the cows on my great-uncles farm in Australia exploding.

Some of my buddies were on a mission recently in a bad part of town. Some sort of IED, possible IED, or explosives were found. They used a Mark 19 grenade launcher to shoot a few 40 mm explosive rounds at it. Unfortunately, there were some cows in the nearby vicinity that didn't make it

[Saitek]

This thread is highly amusing. As Ash points out - what some things we talk about here...

[AlphaBravo]

I don't remember any of the cows on my great-uncles farm in Australia exploding.

Some of my buddies were on a mission recently in a bad part of town. Some sort of IED, possible IED, or explosives were found. They used a Mark 19 grenade launcher to shoot a few 40 mm explosive rounds at it. Unfortunately, there were some cows in the nearby vicinity that didn't make it

A bit like in the film Three King's i would imagine ( Cow + Cluster Bomb/Mine = well... not alot.. )

[BFMF]

( Cow + Cluster Bomb/Mine = well... not alot.. )

That about sums it up....

[expat]

Moooooooooooo!