Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[Folly's place]

DH with John and Walker, at a farm/ pioneer gathering in Wisconsin, long ago. Both were Milking Shorthorns, and about 2900 pounds each!

We are members of the MidWest Ox Drover's Ass'n, with members all over, and there's a website, with photos. There are more people (4H'rs) in the NE, and it's really a fun activity. I'm more about horses, and DH is the cattle guy here.
Mary

 

[sourland]

DH with John and Walker, at a farm/ pioneer gathering in Wisconsin, long ago. Both were Milking Shorthorns, and about 2900 pounds each!
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We are members of the MidWest Ox Drover's Ass'n, with members all over, and there's a website, with photos. There are more people (4H'rs) in the NE, and it's really a fun activity. I'm more about horses, and DH is the cattle guy here.
Mary

Beautiful animals.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

My pals and I have been working long term on an intentional community/ecovillage project and one thing we want to do some day is have driving cattle. Those are some very cool looking cows. Very professional.

 

[Folly's place]

Well, they are actually steers, or because trained, they are oxen.
Cows are adult female cattle...
Mary

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Cows, cattle, whatever. Most people don't refer to cows as cattle.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cow
"Definition of cow
(Entry 1 of 2)
1a: the mature female of cattle (genus Bos)
b: the mature female of various usually large animals (such as an elephant, whale, or moose)

2: a domestic bovine animal regardless of sex or age"

 

[ShrekDawg]

Well, they are actually steers, or because trained, they are oxen.
Cows are adult female cattle...
Mary

Wait... so an ox isn’t a separate species!? Huh!

 

[Folly's place]

Any trained bovine is called an ox. Almost always a steer, because bulls are too difficult, and cows are too valuable in other ways. Every ox I'm aware of is a steer. We start them usually as bottle fed babies, really cute, and then they keep in training as they grow up.
Most are from dual purpose breeds, or dairy breeds, because the beef breeds get too heavy and have trouble actually working. The biggest team I ever saw was a team or Aryshires, and with their upturned horns, really impressive!
Mary

 

[Folly's place]

So calling any bovine a cow is like the folks who call any foal a colt. Kinda strange to me, as though any child is a boy, and any human is a man...
Mary

 

[ShrekDawg]

Any trained bovine is called an ox. Almost always a steer, because bulls are too difficult, and cows are too valuable in other ways. Every ox I'm aware of is a steer. We start them usually as bottle fed babies, really cute, and then they keep in training as they grow up.
Most are from dual purpose breeds, or dairy breeds, because the beef breeds get too heavy and have trouble actually working. The biggest team I ever saw was a team or Aryshires, and with their upturned horns, really impressive!
Mary

Oh wow that’s so interesting!! I never knew that! I figured they must be a separate species or something cause they are HUGE!? How do they get them to be so much bigger than normal cattle!?

 

[FortCluck]

Any trained bovine is called an ox. Almost always a steer, because bulls are too difficult, and cows are too valuable in other ways. Every ox I'm aware of is a steer. We start them usually as bottle fed babies, really cute, and then they keep in training as they grow up.
Most are from dual purpose breeds, or dairy breeds, because the beef breeds get too heavy and have trouble actually working. The biggest team I ever saw was a team or Aryshires, and with their upturned horns, really impressive!
Mary

I used to go see steer pulls. They’re amazing creatures and very strong. They can pull a lot.