A ****ty question..

Ultimate Seduction

How ye getting on lads. A townie here with a stupid question.

Why is cow poo pure scutter but all other grass eating animals I can think of just poo balls of grass. Like horse, sheep, deer, rabbit ECT..

Floki

Horses and rabbits are hind gut fermenters and the pellets are formed by the colon which pushes them into the rectum rhythmically. So they make different sized pellets with their muscles in their colon, opening and closing before it goes into the rectum.
Deer, sheep and goats are four stomached like a cow but have a spiral cecum so that might have a bearing on it and opening and closing into pellets.
Cows I believe have none of these I believe so their poop is just like meat coming out of a sausage machine.

Birdnuts

It depends on their forage too - pure ryegrass swards give a scuttery messy cowpat. If cattle have access to natural grassland with plenty of herbs as well as other grass species, you get a drier more compact cow pat.

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123shooter

I once shot a fresh cowpat with a 12 bore shotgun...........there's some more information.

It most definitely wasn't a good idea ............even more information.

Floki

123shooter wrote: »

I once shot a fresh cowpat with a 12 bore shotgun...........there's some more information.

It most definitely wasn't a good idea ............even more information.

Are you still allowed own a gun?:D

123shooter

It was the hot steaming cow pat season so all is ok, but cow sh*te is a bugger to get out of your hair and don't taste nice either.

MysticMonk

Another townie question..is cow muck any good as a garden fertilizers compared to say horse manure?

123shooter

MysticMonk wrote: »

Another townie question..is cow muck any good as a garden fertilizers compared to say horse manure?

Extremely if well rotted. Cattle were kept on straw and the muck mixed with straw was always spread on fields as manure. Slow release good for the soil and plants.

Today it is spread as a liquid (slurry) as no straw is used, the cattle stand on concrete slats. Stinks to high heaven for a day.

Never wrestle with pigs

MysticMonk wrote: »

Another townie question..is cow muck any good as a garden fertilizers compared to say horse manure?

Way better than horse manure.

2forjoy

Is it because cows chew their cud ?

Ultimate Seduction

Great answer Floky. Nice to know. Thanks.