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NotSteve · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:11 pm Post subject: Cows driving trucks

Ok, this has nothing to do with cows driving trucks or owner operators but I found this very interesting.

I was waiting to get new steers (lol cows) on my truck and an alignment and there was a cow farmer or whatever you call them waiting for his trailer to get fixed.

I always wondered about cow farmers and how they are raised. I thought they were artificially inseminated.

He said that for every 40 female cows they put one bull out in the field. They stay out there for 70 days and pretty much have a party for 40 days. In the first few weeks the bulls fight very fierce with one another. After about 40 days the farmer starts to laugh and says that's about the time they all start hanging around with each other and have pretty much had it with all the females.

I told him he needed to start a new tradition and he thought it was pretty funny. I told him that right before sunset he needed to put a big bucket of water out and spike it with a gallon of tequila. Then when the sun starts to go down put on some Barry White!

Now, after all these cows have their babies and they reach 250 pounds from grazing in the open range they are sold to another cow place which you have probably seen from the highway were there are tons and tons of cows in very close quarters just hanging out and eating. This is the place where they don't get any exercise and put on all the weight and the fat which you want for flavor.

From there, it's off the the slaughter house and EVERY single part of the cow is used for something and nothing is wasted.

I also asked about chickens. Chickens lay eggs non stop without the need for a rooster. All the eggs they lay have no embryo in them to hatch a new baby chicken. That's where the rooster comes in.

Fredog · Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 2286 Location: North Georgia

NotSteve wrote: Ok, this has nothing to do with cows driving trucks or owner operators but I found this very interesting.

I was waiting to get new steers (lol cows) on my truck and an alignment and there was a cow farmer or whatever you call them waiting for his trailer to get fixed.

I always wondered about cow farmers and how they are raised. I thought they were artificially inseminated.

He said that for every 40 female cows they put one bull out in the field. They stay out there for 70 days and pretty much have a party for 40 days. In the first few weeks the bulls fight very fierce with one another. After about 40 days the farmer starts to laugh and says that's about the time they all start hanging around with each other and have pretty much had it with all the females.

I told him he needed to start a new tradition and he thought it was pretty funny. I told him that right before sunset he needed to put a big bucket of water out and spike it with a gallon of tequila. Then when the sun starts to go down put on some Barry White!

Now, after all these cows have their babies and they reach 250 pounds from grazing in the open range they are sold to another cow place which you have probably seen from the highway were there are tons and tons of cows in very close quarters just hanging out and eating. This is the place where they don't get any exercise and put on all the weight and the fat which you want for flavor.

From there, it's off the the slaughter house and EVERY single part of the cow is used for something and nothing is wasted.

I also asked about chickens. Chickens lay eggs non stop without the need for a rooster. All the eggs they lay have no embryo in them to hatch a new baby chicken. That's where the rooster comes in.

That's amooooooosing

NotSteve · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject:

Ha ha ha ha ha

Heavy Duty · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 139

I guess you didn't grow up on a farm, city boy. We always had 2 bulls with 80+ milk cows, they worked all year round.

NotSteve · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject:

Now I'm a Hobby Trucker City Boy.

Some people grow up in these environments and sometimes I just find some of this information fascinating.

I had a woman from Reno come out to visit me in New Hampshire. We went for a drive in the country in my convertible and she got so scared we had to return home on the highway. She had never experienced so many trees in her life and we were basically driving in a constant tunnel of trees which totally freaked her out.

Doghouse · Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 967

Maybe she was afraid of your wood,....Steve'O :wink:

Orangetxguy · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 1754

Damn...So that's why we had so many bulls hanging out on the ranch...to please the cows.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Of course...when we made the young bulls into steers...that was a different story !! :shock:

Scottt · Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 104

Now who is going to explain a "Gomer Bull" to Steve?? LOL

cowdoc · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 33

I've actually made a gomer bull. I've also pumped up some steers to work back when we could do that.

GMAN · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 9778 Location: Tennessee

NotSteve wrote: We went for a drive in the country in my convertible and she got so scared we had to return home on the highway. She had never experienced so many trees in her life and we were basically driving in a constant tunnel of trees which totally freaked her out.

Are you sure it wasn't your driving? :P

BigDiesel · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject:

NotSteve wrote:
I had a woman from Reno come out to visit me in New Hampshire.

Uh......... NotSteve, it is less expensive if you go to the " Ranch ", and more of a selection....

Savvy ???? :wink:

Kurbski · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 361 Location: I-4 & I-95

GMAN wrote: NotSteve wrote: We went for a drive in the country in my convertible and she got so scared we had to return home on the highway. She had never experienced so many trees in her life and we were basically driving in a constant tunnel of trees which totally freaked her out.

Are you sure it wasn't your driving? :P

He's just driving with his knee, using his gps and and listening to Barry White while posting on CAD.
Multi tasking hobby truckers rule. 8)

rank · Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 1291

sounds like a beef operation.

I've been to a few dairy farms that;
-have ~7500 cows,
-milk 24-7-365,
-feed 2 tractor trailer loads of hay every day,
-have a vet on staff that does 10 c-sections a week,
-produce all their own electricity using a metane powered 25KW generator

amazing stuff

arky · Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 274

When driving for Maverick, I delivered a load of hay to a dairy. The guy that unloaded me got to talking about bio-fuels and such. Although they didn't have it there, he was telling me of some of the dairy farmers who were taking advantage of all the methane gas emiited from the manure. I don't recall how they were using it, but I would think to run a generator would be one of the best uses.

During the conversation, he also told me how every farmer in the area knew full well what an absolute joke ethanol is...but they were planting everything they had in corn simply because the ethanol boom was pushing corn prices up.

This was in west/central IL, just east of St. Louis.

tweety bird · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 434

NotSteve wrote:
I always wondered about cow farmers and how they are raised. I thought they were artificially inseminated.

Are all cow farmers artificially inseminated?

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