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How do cows feed themselves?
They use their mouths.
Who feeds cows?
Farmers and ranchers often feed the cows. However cows are able to feed themselves when they're out grazing on pasture.
Do cows eat herbivores?
No, cows only eat vegetation. Cows are herbivores.
Are cows in the rainforest?
No. Cows only live in areas that have been opened up to allow for grazing, not within the forests themselves.
Can cows eat themselves to death?
Depends on how hungry and malnourished they are. If some cows broke into a feed house where grain was stored and they gorged themselves on the grain, they could very much die of bloat and/or acute acidosis.
Why do cows bite and pull out other cows hair?
They don't. They lick themselves and each other. They don't pull out each other's hair.
Does a head of cattle equal one cow?
Not necessarily. It means cattle in a collective term, not cows as in only cows with calves, or dry cows or pregnant cows or bulls or steers or heifers or whatever. When a cattleman says that he has 50 head of cattle, he means cows, bulls, steers, heifers and calves, not just the cows themselves.
Why didn't the Iroquois eat cow?
Iroquois never raised cows. Cows were brought in from the European settlers and raised by the European immigrants, not by the Iroquois themselves.
What is a relatively inexpensive feed for cows?
Grass is the most inexpensive feed you can feed your cows. It grows in your backyard and in your pastures, and only requires the cows to harvest it themselves. Hay comes as the second least expensive feed to feed cattle.
Why does a cow bite her shoulder?
She's just trying to scratch at an itch that's on her shoulder. Cows lick themselves, not bite. Horses bite themselves.
How are cows harmful to the environment?
Cows are only as harmful to the environment as those humans who manage them. Supposedly they emit a lot of methane which is a potent greenhouse gas, however there are a lot of animals that are not cows that also emit a lot of methane themselves, directly or indirectly.
what do bulls do?
Bulls eat the same things that Cows and Cattle do because they themselves are cattle. See the related question below.
