How does a brown cow eat green grass and give white milk and yellow butter?
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Cows aren't paint. They dont take the grass in and mix it up to produce milk and butter. Those things are produced by their body. The color of things is determined by what material makes it up and what "state" it's in. If something "clear" like an oxygen atom, combines with something that's a gray color like an iron atom, it produces a new thing with a new color called rust. \n\nMilk and butter are far more complex atoms than iron and oxygen. So they reflect the color of what they are. \n\nI would say your grandpa is a pretty funny guy. Tell him hello from OiVey.
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The same as any other food. \n\nSome medication can't be taken with dairy, watch for that and read your information booklet that comes with your meds.
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Cows have a short course hair covering their bodies. They are not furry or fluffy. (well some oddball breads have long hair but I am talking about the average cow)
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When you're hungry you'll eat grass.
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Cows are "ruminants."  They have four stomachs and from the first one they can bring food back up later to chew it again.  They also have bacteria living in their gut that do part of the digestion for them.  Link below has a diagram and discussion.\n\nAloha
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well, cows give milk in liters not litters....
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2% milk contains butter fat. Use skimmed milk to avoid butter fat.
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Take the cow first, leaving the coyote and bale of hay.\nCome back, take hay across. \nTake cow back.\nTake coyote across. Coyote and hay again.\nCome back alone.\nGet cow and take it to opposite shore. Ta-da!
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Cows have a stomach with 4 chambers; rumen, reticulum, omasum and the abomasum. The cow ingests food and masticates it to break the cell wall. After entering the first two chambers, the cow regurgitates the cud to further break down the food (fibres); this assists the body in accessing nutrients within the cell which are difficult to obtain due to the nature of plant cells. These chambers contain bacteria (symbiotic) that break down cellulose. The liquid pulp then passes into omasum, which removes water. Finally the food enters the true stomach, abomasum which acts like any typical stomach. Cows should actually be known as bacteriophages, simply because its actually the bacteria that gain all the energy and nutrients required... \nCows do not eat meat (its illegal in Australia to feed cows - and other livestock - meat products - contributes to mad cows disease) - they dont even have the tooth morphology to eat meat!! And rabbits are hind-gut fermenters (cows foregut fermentors) and are known as coprophages; reconsuming their faeces allows to further break down any undigested plant material and bacteria (important gut flora). They only eat certain faeces, not all of it.
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Yup.  The cow uses both sets of teeth to grind its grain.\nThe link under sources shows a cow skull.
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They routinely grind up meat parts and process it into cattle feed.  That's one reason that they had a problem in Britain with the mad cow's disease - they still let them use, of all things, road kill in the cattle's food.  We never allowed that here.\n\nCow's normally won't eat a piece of meat, at least when it looks like meat and tastes like meat.  And they chew things up very thoroughly, so it is almost impossible that they would "accidentally" eat the stuff.  It is only when it is ground up and dried and slipped in with oats and stuff that they eat it.\n\nSo since they SEEM fine with this, general health wise, I imagine that other plant eaters would seem to be, too.  I believe they do this with poultry feed also.  How they really are or feel.......
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1.Lifting spoon to mouth (repeat repeatedly)\n2.Insert straw into mouth, suck down fat milkshakes\n3.Butter everything
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Go to your Yahoo search bar and type in milking cows and it will bring up several items.
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Cows, like all mammals,produce milk to feed their young.  We take advantage of this when we milk a cow.   The milk supply produced depends on the demand for it.   If a calf- or the farmer, take less milk, then less is produced to replace it.  After a while, the cow's body quits producing milk all together, and she "dries up" in farmer language.  Now if you have a cow in milk production, you milk her twice a day, every day, 7 days a week.  At each milking, you try to remove all the milk from the udder.  If you do not milk her, she will get extremely uncomfortable, full and irritable.  Some will leak out, and eventually her body would absorb the excess.  In the meantime, she would be at risk to develop infections and abcesses of the udder, and could even die from them.  If she does develop an abcess, milk production in that quadrant (cows have four separate sections in the udder, and four teats, fyi) will stop.   It may also not produce milk in that quadrant ever again, and will always be at risk for developing another abcess if she does.  A good farmer would never let this happen.  He would gradually reduce the amount of milk taken from a cow over a period of weeks until there was very little produced.  A cow naturally dries up milk supply before another calf is born, at which point she "freshens" and begins supplying milk again.
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Grass grows.  Grazing animals (herbivores) eat grass and convert it to flesh.  Meat eating animals (carnivores) catch and eat herbivores.  Carnivores die.  Bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms cause decay.  The decay products help fertilse the grass so it can grow, and the process repeats.\n\nIt is a little more complicated than that, but the  basics are as set out above.
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They don't prey on any animals, they're herbivores, so only eat plant matter. And cheese!
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Someone saw a cow feeding a calf like a woman breastfeeding a baby and put two and two together.