#cattle
get eye spots tattooed on your ass cheeks to ward off predators
Are y’all saying I should have been making all my animals look like eldritch beings? (Yes I know this makes, biological/ecological sense, lol)
im curious what farmblrs’ opinion of this is…
I can say that I’ve honestly never seen that done before lmao, but can definitely see the benefit. Idk where that photo is from, but here in parts of Australia cattle, especially calves, can be in great danger from being attacked by wild dogs, and they will usually go for the tail and rump. I have personally seen animals that have survived attacks like this and it’s not pleasant. I don’t know if eye tattoos would necessarily work for wild dogs, but honestly anything helps in the long run.
I still regularly think about the fact that we domesticated cattle twice
The girls are friends
Only 1.9% of total U.S. Greenhouse Gas emissions come from cattle! Eliminating or reducing cattle in this country would not only have a MINIMAL impact on cutting emissions, it would remove one of the most nutrient dense foods we eat (beef) and lower the sustainability and health of our pastures and farm land. Farmers should continue to work to minimize their cattle’s impact on the environment, but the good of cattle far outweighs the bad and it doesn’t make sense to eliminate them!
Beef cattle build soil health through grazing and spreading of manure. They allow farmers to grow food for people during the winter. They convert poor forage due to drought into high quality food. They take millions and millions of acres in this country that could not grow food and convert the grass into high quality food. They also improve all of these acres by grazing them and putting nutrients back in the soil. Beef provides many essential nutrients in a diet and is a cheap, healthy, great tasting protein!
Cows are a valuable part of the worlds ecology- their “waste” is part of the natural cycle