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- Pride of ownership
- Income from selling excess stock (cull cows/bulls/steers/heifers)
- Income from selling milk (dairy only)
- Meat for your own use
- Appreciation for hard work involved
- Seeing new calves being born
- Low maintenance (esp. beef cattle)
- Flexibility options to match what management plans you have
- Work with animals every day
- Gain knowledge and experience that can be used to pass on to other people
- Flexibility according to cattle/grain markets
- Marketing options (direct, private-treaty, auction, dispersal)
- Choice of what sector[s] to follow: seedstock, commercial, stocker, feedlot, contract grazing, dairy, etc.
- Ability to raise cattle almost anywhere in the world
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More importantly, cattle provide over 900 byproducts that are used by EVERYONE. They contribute to the roads we drive on, medicinals and pharmaceuticals, leather and other products, shampoos and soaps and lotions, even the tires on our cars. There is so much we get from cows, it's amazing that people think they can truly be vegetarian! Cattle also act as fire retardants in brushy area and can reduce the increasingly dangerous "fire load" that we all see, esp. in the West. If we don't let fires burn (naturally), then we should allow cows to graze, esp. on marginal lands where the brush and undergrowth thrives. As a result, there is nothing for grazing for deer and other wildlife and the brush SUCKS up water faster than people can imagine.
If water, fire, and open land is of importance to people, then they should learn to appreciate and understand the incredible contributions cattle -- who coexist with wildlife and waterfowl and rivers/streams, etc. -- without harming them! The misinformation abounds about cattle, which is terribly sad because they can contribute so much environmentally to our lives. Where cattle are given open space, wildlife also thrives. In fact, 75% of ALL preservation of wildlife is protected by RANCHES and private lands -- NOT public land!
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∙ 12y agoCattle are beneficial to people in many ways. Not only do they produce edible and wearable products like meat, milk and leather respectively, but they also produce manure that can be used for growing fruit, vegetables and grains that we eat. Cattle also provide non-edible products that can be used for vehicles, building, painting, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, etc.
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∙ 12y agoCattle give milk, beef, and also act as great natural lawn mowers, except for the cow pies. And they also give manure which is great for gardens and fields.
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What is an example of commensalism?
Barnacles benefit from living on whales, and they do not hurt the whales.
What animal benefits from a cow?
humans are animals and they benefit from eating cows. humans also benefit from drinking the milk of cows.
Were Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield ever photographed together?
Yes. The Cow meets the White Elephant, an ASPCA benefit?
Why is there no benefit to drinking cow's milk?
Cow's milk is meant for baby cows. Human milk is meant for baby humans. Anyone older than a baby doesn't need milk at all. A good primary source of calcium (if that is what you are worried about) is green leafy vegetables. ------------------- The benefit of drinking cows milk is a debateable point, even amongst doctors and nutritionists.
What symbiotic relationship is a vampire bat and a cow?
There is no symbiotic relationship between the vampire bat and the horse. The horse does not benefit in any way from the bat's using it for sustenance.
The relationship between a cow and the cellulose-digesting bacteria in the rumen of its gut would best be described as what kind of communalism?
Well, it's something to the effect of "beneficial" communalism, because the bacteria benefit from the cow by being constantly supplemented with food, and the cow benefits from the bacteria and microflora because they help break down the fibrous material for her.
What benefit does a cow get from a tree?
the benifit of the tree is that the cow gaines super poop analisis from the red lepricon that eats your bum for it's amusment. Also when a nuclear explosion occurs in your pancreas the spagetti send fried pickel to your medula oblongata thus creating a interdimensional cow pie which sends a dumb answer to this question. Answerd by me (by the way i have a P.H.D in politics.)
When is a cow a cow?
A "cow" is a cow when that "cow" is a she and she has given birth to at least one calf.
After a cow calves should you milk her or not?
It depends. Is she a beef cow or dairy cow? Are you wanting to keep the cow with the calf or separating the calf from the cow? Usually with beef cows you don't bother with milking them unless you have to because the calf isn't up and suckling soon after birth and you want to encourage the calf to be up and suckling, or to get some milk from a cow or heifer that won't accept her calf right away to feed that calf with. With dairy cows, though, if you've separated the calf from the cow right away, it's ideal to milk that cow to collect the colostrum to feed that calf--and other calves--to the benefit of the calf's health. But, if you are wanting to keep the calf with the cow for a couple of days, then no, it's not necessary.
How does soil benefit the earth?
So that we may grow foods, and, deer and cow and other animals eat grass. We eat those animals as foods. And grass comes from soil.
How have humans used or manipulated genes from other living things for our benefit?
They did it all the time by selecting seeds from the plants that produced the best or by breeding the best bull to the best cow.
What is a cow dropping called?
Cow dung, cow patty, cow pie, cow feces, etc.
