Cows with Names Give More Milk

By Queuebot in Animals & Pets on Feb 3, 2009 at 1:03 am

A cow with a name produces more milk than a cow without, say scientists at the School of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development at Newcastle University in the UK.  By giving a cow a name and treating it as an individual, farmers can increase a cow’s annual milk yield by almost 500 pints.

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“Just as people respond better to the personal touch, cows also feel happier and more relaxed if they are given a bit more one-to-one attention,” explains Catherine Douglas, one of the authors of the Newcastle study.

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  1. Alex
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 1:03 am

    Just don’t give them unusual names, lest we have criminal cows!

    By the way, UK farm girls are hawt!

  2. philliposophy
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 1:37 am

    This seems like a good reason to not eat cows.

  3. darlzwik
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 6:02 am

    I only need one reason to not eat cows. I don’t want to.

  4. Gauldar
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 9:02 am

    Save a cow, eat a human. I saw this show on the Discovery Network of a dairy cow farm. A great deal of it is automated, when the cows milk bladders are full, they walk to the machine by themselves where they are milked and releved of the weight. They are also back scratchers they can activate by pushing their head against a big red button.

  5. Paul in Boca
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 am

    How exactly does Catherine Douglas know how cows feel?

  6. wow_just_wow
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    But if *everyone* is special, doesn’t that mean no one is?

  7. Gauldar
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    wow_just_wow,

    So are you saying that if everybody likes icecream, then nobody likes ice cream?

  8. darlzwik
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 6:25 pm

    “So are you saying that if everybody likes icecream, then nobody likes ice cream?”

    Wow just Wow didn’t say anything about ice cream, but if all ice cream was special, then no ice cream would be special.

  9. Bal T'san Chen
    Feb 1st, 2010 at 7:20 am

    Yeah…and how come it seems that each and every FBI agent is a “Special Agent”?


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