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Do you give your cows treats?

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    Jb1989
    Registered Users Posts: 2,421 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Treppen wrote: »
    Skittles is what they liked apparently!

    https://www.eater.com/2017/1/20/14330750/cows-eating-skittles-wisconsin-what

    Yes. Any sweets, buns or bread etc lying in the jeep from petrol station stops, go straight to closest cow at barrier when I'm cleaning jeep.


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    Markcheese
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    I just used to keep dairy nuts in my pockets , so when I went to check on them ,they'd be keen to come follow you ..

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



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    Base price
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    I give one particular pet cow (Daisy) lots of treats - she is particularly partial to over ripe bananas that the local shop keeper gives me for taking away. I try to restrict her to one a day but she always wants more :)

    She and a few others like out of date bread/buns/cake/apple/rhubarb tarts and cabbage, turnips, carrots, apples, raw & cooked potatoes, stale wheatbix/cornflakes.
    Apologies the pic is sideways.


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    E mac
    Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭E mac


    I use sugar beet to feed to my cows which they can't get enough of. When there's broken bits around the yard I'll pick em up walk over to the barrier and get it to the nearest cow interested. Problem now is when I walk trough the herd they gather around me tongues out wanting more. They have become extremely placid won't come out of the way/won't walk forward ...maybe there seeing more of me now because of the lockdown.


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    mahoney_j
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    I gave my cows this evening off !!!!,first evening of oad


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    3 the square
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    My cows get treats every day better feed than myself!!


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    Tig98
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    When they're in for the winter I pick a fist of strong grass from the nearby field margin and they go mad for it. Other than that they're better than the hens for eating potato skins.


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    laoch na mona
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    Treppen wrote: »
    Skittles is what they liked apparently!

    https://www.eater.com/2017/1/20/14330750/cows-eating-skittles-wisconsin-what




    We grazed a cow for an older person this year the cow was almost 20 years old and a bit of a pet, she loved bread the mother was giving her a bit every day


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    893bet
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    The irony of this thread on the same page as the Vegan thread.

    Some lads are feeding their cattle treats while also apparently “raping them”.

    The internet really is a mad place.


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    _Brian
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    Not so much food treats but they love a help out with a scratch.

    https://youtu.be/zE6O0GpxpkI


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    The Rabbi
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    893bet wrote: »
    The irony of this thread on the same page as the Vegan thread.

    Some lads are feeding their cattle treats while also apparently “raping them”.

    The internet really is a mad place.

    I've got some sweeties in me pocket dearie


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    Acquiescence
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    6034073

    Not to mention the war.

    But did you know Oreos are vegan?

    To answer the OP I should probably be including 'treats' when calculating intakes.:o


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    emaherx
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    Acquiescence wrote: »
    6034073

    Not to mention the war.

    But did you know Oreos are vegan?

    To answer the OP I should probably be including 'treats' when calculating intakes.:o

    Not according to oreo though :D
    https://www.oreo.co.uk/faq
    Oreo wrote:
    No, OREO have milk as cross contact and therefore they are not suitable for vegans

    But hardly matters as cows aren't vegan anyway. ;)


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    iconicon
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    ivy


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    PoorFarmer
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    Cabbage leaves and spinach. An odd Kale leaf that the slugs get at too. I reckon it's the nearest thing to heroin for them. When they see me walking up from the garden all the heads come out over the gate.


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    patsy_mccabe
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    No

    'The Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Galway, As they sailed beneath the Swastika to Spain'



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    _Brian
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    Maybe not treats as such but even in the summer most Stock here would get a handful of meal regularly.
    Bring It in the same white bucket all the time.
    Cattle come to you every time they see you and are happy to follow you mostly anywhere. It’s been the biggest change in cattle handling on this farm.


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    E mac
    Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭E mac


    Suppose this time of year silage does get boring after a while even for a cow anything different is gonna welcome. Imagine eating nothing but weetabix everyday over and over ...


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    Limestone Cowboy
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    _Brian wrote: »
    Maybe not treats as such but even in the summer most Stock here would get a handful of meal regularly.
    Bring It in the same white bucket all the time.
    Cattle come to you every time they see you and are happy to follow you mostly anywhere. It’s been the biggest change in cattle handling on this farm.

    Do the same here too. Awful comfort when all you have to do is call them and they will all come running to you.


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    K.G.
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    _Brian wrote: »
    Maybe not treats as such but even in the summer most Stock here would get a handful of meal regularly.
    Bring It in the same white bucket all the time.
    Cattle come to you every time they see you and are happy to follow you mostly anywhere. It’s been the biggest change in cattle handling on this farm.
    Always call them even if they are right next to you when you are feeding them ,makes the association


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    Base price
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    K.G. wrote: »
    Always call them even if they are right next to you when you are feeding them ,makes the association
    I always chatter away to them when herding/putting up feed. OH could be in another part of the yard and often ask me who I was talking too.


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    ABitofsense
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Do the same here too. Awful comfort when all you have to do is call them and they will all come running to you.

    Exactly how I do it too. I work long enough hours without coming home and running around after cows and calves. I hand feed the cows now a small bit of nuts here and there when i'm feeding the weanlings with the same yellow bucket that my father used. Then during the summer all i need to do is call and they will come. This really helps for AI too.

    I will be trying the bread as we dump a loaf a week!


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    Lady Haywire
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    I reckon ours would stage some sort of coup if I didn't give them apples/bread/nuts & .....croissants :pac:


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    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,519 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    ABitofsense wrote: »
    Exactly how I do it too. I work long enough hours without coming home and running around after cows and calves. I hand feed the cows now a small bit of nuts here and there when i'm feeding the weanlings with the same yellow bucket that my father used. Then during the summer all i need to do is call and they will come. This really helps for AI too.

    I will be trying the bread as we dump a loaf a week!

    I've a cousin that is working, land rented everywhere, heaps of cows and bad facilities. He rang me the weekend to come and meet him with the calving Jack. Had a springer down with a dead calf half out calving with a long tíme. Got him out but the cow died soon after, he said he couldn't get close enough to them the last day he was in to see if there was any springing. There was 20 more there absolute lunatics with the run of over 100 acres. They are herded (counted) twice a week at most and are absolutely daft, he rounds up a heap of people to try and gather them and it often doesn't work on the first day. I was trying to tell him wouldn't he be better off if he brought a bag of nuts in twice a week with him and spend a few minutes talking to them while they are eating and he would have a manageable bundle of stock that wouldn't head to the far corner of the place every time they seen someone but I might as well have been talking to the wall. When he does manage to get them into a yard then it's like something out of the wild west.
    I couldn't deal with the likes of that, same fella would be blowing about all the stock he has. I told him he was at nothing anyway. Too mean to buy a few bags of nuts.


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    Genghis Cant
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,980 Mod ✭✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Does anyone else throw an extra shake of silage in front of the cattle on Christmas morning?
    Or is it just me ?


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    Jb1989
    Registered Users Posts: 2,421 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Does anyone else throw an extra shake of silage in front of the cattle on Christmas morning?
    Or is it just me ?

    Mine have it adlib. But every animal gets some mail as a treat, they don't usually get any, any other day.


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    _Brian
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    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Does anyone else throw an extra shake of silage in front of the cattle on Christmas morning?
    Or is it just me ?

    My father was a great man for huge feed up to stock on Christmas morning. Everything nhad to get clean bedding as well.


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    Say my name
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    Jb1989 wrote: »
    Mine have it adlib. But every animal gets some mail as a treat, they don't usually get any, any other day.

    Do you have to open all the envelopes?


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    _Brian
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    Say my name wrote: »
    Do you have to open all the envelopes?

    Great tongues for licking envelopes though.


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