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To: average joe who wrote (43988)1/2/2006 4:14:35 PM
From: haqihana  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 90947
 
AJ, What you describe, sounds like the old times beef cattle of the prairie. They know how to survive on what they can get out of nature. The action of the lead cow, is like what a bull would do in the past, but since they are cross breeding, there probably is not a bull always in the herd, and a dominant cow takes over his duties for the protection of the herd.

They would be smaller because they are not getting good grazing, or any grain. That is one of those "the survival of the fittest" theories.

I don't know why they would tend to go east when on the loose, but when it rains, the cattle put their butts to the rain, and a horse puts his nose to the rain, because of the direction on the body that their hair grows.



To: average joe who wrote (43988)1/2/2006 5:12:36 PM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 90947
 
Are you a rancher perchance?

One thing I have noticed about cows is they always tend to head east when they get loose. Maybe this is not always true but I have never seen them go any other direction

Maybe they're communist cows, trying to get back to the motherland?