They are smarter than horses
How does one determine that? What are the tests to determine the level of animal dumbness/smartness?
Horses play, cows don't
They are smarter than horses
Yeah that’s true here as well but still, eating veal means killing the calf. In any case it has to be taken away from the mother so the milk can be collected for human consumption.No, not always, in the UK there is now a whole market built up around rearing veal (pink veal) instead of killing the calf. Actually, there's a whole other thread running on that very topic
Yes (see my post above) but to get the milk for human consumption it must be denied to a calf. And we presume the ratio is about half the calves are males.Unless you rear the calf for meat or milk. Females become more milking cows and you can kill the males or breed for pink veal in a very ethical meat production. There's ways round this calf killing and it's only the males in milk herds that get killed. Certainly according to the milk farmer I know.
Both horses and cattle are smart enough to learn their right from their leftThey are smarter than horses
Both horses and cattle are smart enough to learn their right from their left
Yes you can. That’s how I know. When plowing a horse or an ox the verbal commands “gee” and “ha” (left and right respectively) are used to steer them independently from reins (there usually are no reins on a team of oxen and with a plow horse your hands ate usually full of the plow handles and unable to steer by reining. Likewise with dogs pulling a sled.How so? Can you give a Cow or Horse a remote verbal instruction and it will follow it?
Yes you can. That’s how I know. When plowing a horse or an ox the verbal commands “gee” and “ha” (left and right respectively) are used to steer them independently from reins (there usually are no reins on a team of oxen and with a plow horse your hands ate usually full of the plow handles and unable to steer by reining. Likewise with dogs pulling a sled.
Mostly, yes you understand. Yes, you have reins on a draft horse but they respond to verbal commands and those reins are seldom used except when training a young horse. However with an ox I’ve never even seen reins even present at all. They depend entirely on the same verbal commands as a horse. Likewise with a dog team.So. You have the reins on the Horse or Ox ? But would they turn if you gave the command without you being on the reins? Am I understanding you correctly?
I heard about a fisherman who parked his car in field next to the river he was fishing. Came back from his session and the cows had licked the paint off his car
In automated milking parlours the cows fetch themselves in and get milked with no human input
Are you sure? I can easily see how they’d learn to gladly enter the stalls once they learn it relieves the pain and pressure on their mammaries, but I can’t imagine how the milking lines would get attached to the teats without human hands?In automated milking parlours the cows fetch themselves in and get milked with no human input
Cows are bred to produce so much milk it hurts. Don't what ever you do look on the peta website, it is so sad.Do they get a positive reinforcement after ? Food ? Or is it painful for Cows to NOT be milked? Is it a relief.