• dmention7@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Came into the comments to read about petting baby cows. Left feeling icky. ☹️

    Maybe its just cause I’m high, but baby cows are frickin adorable, and now I’m thinking about finding a rancher friend.

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      2 months ago

      Only after they’ve been washed off. Or dry cleaned. Or whatever, IDK, I’m from Chicago.

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        2 months ago

        IDK, I’m from Chicago

        So you’re more familiar with the end stage of the process.

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        The moms lick them clean after birth, and if you’re expecting any animal to be clean I got bad news for ya.

        Bonus fun fact the cows tend to eat the afterbirth as well. Source grew up on a farm/ranch, if you want gross learn about prolapse. Guess who had skinny arms as a teenager and got to help keep cows alive till the vet came and had two thumbs? This guy… not sure I should be proud of what I had to do but yeah cows is expensive.

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      2 months ago

      There’s a dairy farm somewhat close to me that let’s you pet the cows and watch them get milked. It’s pretty cool.

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        1. Cows don’t make extra milk, you have to take their baby’s from them and then take that milk.
        2. Cows need to be impregnated constantly to keep milk flow.

        Its possible theres an ethical dairy farm but ive yet to see one.

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      2 months ago

      yeah, honestly f this thread. i went from smiling to wondering why i bothered to even look at lemmy today. ☹️

      there’s gotta be something nice to look at instead!

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        You’re upset some people don’t find it cute to separate baby cows from their mothers immediately following birth?

        Have you heard a mother cow screaming for their newborn before?

        This is just like saying theres no problem with exotic animal zoos.

        When animals are treated as property and a means to make money, inhumane things happen. Then those people pretend they didnt happen, and put the animal bits in nice packages that have pictures of happy animals in fields on them.