HIDee Nathan!

This has been a Real Interestin' Thread!

My Uncle Dave had the last round of Our Family Farm...sold it to some Menonites a Decade-back. What little I know came from Childhood Visits, Ages-ago.

Cows are "Herd Animals"...by-nature....Related to things like Wildebeasts in Africa. They're near the Bottom of the Food Chain, so "Grouping Together" is a Survival Skill..& they're Herbivores (With several Stomaches, to convert that Grass..into "Cud"..& eventually into Meat.) (Which is where "Predators" like US come along...heh!) WAS one at the Ohio State Experimental Station when I was a Kid that had a Glass WINDOW-installed so ya could actually WATCH it Main Stomach in-Action!

Let's See..there's "Dairy Cows"...& Others for Meat-Production ("Steers?") Dairy-kind ya get up Crack-of-Dawn to Milk-'Em or they get kinda Hard to Live with...Right? Most Milkin' was done with a Stainless-Steel "Milkin' Machine"..via a Vacuum Pump.., after ya Insert Cow's Head & Neck into a big Rectangular Steel Frame so they'd just STAND There where ya wanted 'em to.

More-Recently, I've learned that as Cows Digest, they in-essence Fart-Away TONS of Methane Gas. Collectively, they actually create MORE pollutioo of the Atmosphere than all our CARS do.

But..I doubt that MacDonald's or Borden's is gonna go belly-up real-soon over it. :-)>

Famous Cow Poem:
"I never saw a Purple Cow
I hope I never see one
But I can tell you here-&-now
I'd rather see than be one"

That's about All this City Kid remembers about the Beauty of Bovines. I like the White with big Black Spots variety that Chick Filet uses in all their Ads...(Guernseys?)...ditto for Gateway Computers.

Oh..there's an Old Thai Proverb (which alas, doesn't hold true): "It is not wise to play music for the cows."

Best Wishes & a Big Guy-Hug,
Stan