I'm in a hurry today, so this is just a quick hit, something I thought of recently in a context I hope to blog at a later date.
If you had a cow and cut off her udder and then jacked her up with male bovine hormones, would you feel justified in telling your friends she was a bull? Do you think they would look at you like you were crazy?
I wouldn't have called her a bull, obviously, but we did have a cow that beat up a new bull so badly that he was reduced to cowering in the corner of the pasture, and wouldn't come near the cows afterwards.
We switched to 100% artificial insemination after that. A bull tough enough to stand up to the likes of her would have been too dangerous to keep around the farm.
I wouldn't have called her a bull, obviously, but we did have a cow that beat up a new bull so badly that he was reduced to cowering in the corner of the pasture, and wouldn't come near the cows afterwards.
ReplyDeleteWe switched to 100% artificial insemination after that. A bull tough enough to stand up to the likes of her would have been too dangerous to keep around the farm.
Here is an appropriate, educational video.
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