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Aunt Bea said:
Cow trivia.

Cows sense the Earth's magnetic field and align themselves to face either north or south when grazing or resting. Studies show that most cows face a north-south direction, regardless of other factors like the wind or the position of the sun. This ability is called magnetoreception.
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Are you sure they just don't want the sun in their eyes? Or on their rear ends? After all, they *are* all females. ;)

I love cows. They don't seem as smart as goats. A good thing most of the time.
 
The cows in the picture are facing West, a little after Noon. I think they were just grazing up the hill.
 
Pappy said:
Grandpa always told me that cows that stand on the side of the hill have two legs shorter so they can stand even. Grandpa was never wrong. :wink:
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My dad told me that *all* West Virginia cows have two legs shorter on one side. :)
 
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Here's a story from Aunt Dinah's Duct Tape Diner, about how Duct tape saved a cow's life. It's called "Bovine Duct Tape". There are other stories as well.


"A few years ago while working on Herm Pein's dairy in Addy, Washington, I encountered a cow in trouble shortly after arriving for the evening milking. She had torn a hole in one of those big milk veins that run along the stomach from the front to rear. I first saw and followed the trail of several gallons of blood. When I got to the cow she was bleeding heavily and weak. I called for Herm and he wanted to try to get her to walk to a place where we could haul her out with a tractor when she died. I thought the old "direct pressure" approach to bleeding could help so I put my hand flat against the open vein. The bleeding completely stopped. I asked Herm for a washcloth and duct tape. When he got those, we managed to persuade the now collapsed cow to stand up. As soon as she was up. I pressed the folded washcloth over the wound and ran duct tape clear around her body, over her back, around her stomach, across the cloth and around and around. It really only took a good drink of water and a few hours and she seemed back to normal. By the time the vet got there, she didn't even bleed when the my "patch" was removed. He put in a few stitches just to be sure it wouldn't open up again. Sooooooooo, this whole story is to remind you to keep your mind open to the possibilities you could run into with cows, and possible solutions with duct tape". --- Fawn Creek
 
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