explain cattle aution?
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There are farmers and companies that grow calves into full grown adult cattle.  Then, they sell the cattle at an auction, to people who then use them for meat, or for milking.\n\nIn an auction, they bring a cow, bull, or steer into an area for people to inspect.  Then the auctioneer starts the bidding  (Who will pay $1000?)  If somebody offers to pay that amount, the auctioneer increases the amount until there is only one person left willing to pay that price.  That one remaining bidder then pays that price, and buys the animal.\n\nA farm may only have room for a so many "head" of cattle, so if there are calves, a few cattle are auctioned off so to control overpopulation.
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I own cows, and let me tell you, they do not sleep standing up. If you go out at night and see one standing up, believe me it is a wake, and a cow maybe laid back, but if you tick it off (most of all the bull) it will hurt you, and believe me they can really hurt.
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omfg! because cows arn't made of leather!\nthere hides are tanned and what not into leather and thats  y!
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Cows were first domesitcated about 5,000 years ago.  I think if they were wild and allowed to run free, maybe they would behave alot like Bison or Wildebeasts.  They would probably stay in herds that graze in open grasslands, with sub-groups of a Bull and females.
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Good question.  \n\nThe first thing you need to realise is that all living things contain some protein. Grass doesn’t contain much protein but it does contain a bit. To boost the amount of protein cattle get many places also sow their pasture with legumes like clover. Legumes contain  lot more protein than grass and that helps the cows a lot.\n\nBut the really clever part of the way that cows conserve protein. When most animals have proteins that are no longer needed, such as form worn out cells, the body strips the nitrogen off it and recycles the rest as food. The nitrogen then gets excreted in the urine as urea. Cattle don’t do that. If their diet becomes low in protein cattle will excrete the urea in their saliva instead of their urine. The urea goes straight into the stomach, and the bacteria their use it to make protein. So even though the grass a cow eats is often very low in protein the cow itself gets a lot of high protein food form the microbes. The cow is quite literally fertilising the microbes with nitrogen.\n\nFarmers have recently learned how to turn that to their advantage. If the pasture protein content drops farmers can feed their cattle urea fertiliser. Exactly the same urea fertiliser you buy for your garden. Although urea isn’t protein itself it allows the cattle to make protein. So even when eating low protein feed the cattle still put on weight so long as they are being fed fertiliser.\n\nAddenda\n\nGsshulkte said "ruminants have the ability to turn nitrogen\n>>>>>>>>> into protein. so when they eat legumes like \n>>>>>>>>>alfalfa and grains they can convert it into useable \n>>>>>>>>>protein. \n\nAny nitrogen in alfalfa or grains will already be in useable protein form.  That is why humans can and often do obtain all their protein requirements from a diet of alfaflfa and grains. There is no requirement to convert it and cattle have no advantage over any other animal using such foods as a protein source.\n\nSAMI said "Cows ...convert the carbohydrate in grass \n>>>>>(called CELLULOSE ) ...and use it for energy,fat and\n>>>>> protein the same way as humans.\n\nSami that is totally wrong. \n\nFirtsly humans cant use cellulose at all. It is totally indigestible to use. In human nutrition we refer to cellulose as dietary fibre becuse it is indigestible. It passes through as a fibrous mass with no benefit to us at all.\n\nSecondly it is simply  impossible to use a carbohydrate like cellulose for a protien. Carbohydrates lack nitrogen, which is a crucial component of proteins.
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Supposedly the cows sense the moisture in the air and are making sure they have a dry place to lie down, or another explanation is that the cows are conserving heat by because they know the rain will make the air cooler, so they lay on the ground to stay warm. Personally, I have seen cows standing in the rain ignoring it. I wouldn't count on it. \n\nI can tell you what I do use cows to indicate. If you notice grazing cows are spread in a straight line, it might be an indicator of a fault line. The fault tends to create favorable moisture conditions and grows better grass. Sometimes the cows just want to mess with me though.
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Try these:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cows\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_breeds_of_cattle\n\nhttp://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/holycow/index.html
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I like Happy Cow. That is a brand of cheese. Cows make me happy because they are cute and they have a nice disposition. Have you ever heard of a mean cow? I haven't.
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What is cow tipping? pardon my ignorance\n\nst
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A)Prob. that a livestock will die 0.5%\nProb. that a livestock will not die 99.5%\nProb. that 200 livestock will not die:\n99.5%\n x 99.5% x 99.5% x 99.5% x ... (200 times), or\n= 99.5%^200\n\nB)\nProb. that a B is not received at the first stimulus 0.3\nProb. that a B is not received at the second stimulus 0.3 x 0.3\nProb. that a B is received for the first time at the third stimulus:\n0.3 x 0.3 x 0.7 = 0.063\n\n^_^
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It depends on the state you are in.  I live in a cattle state as well.  You cannot kill cattle, because of property destruction and animal cruelty.  Your can however, contact local authorities and find the owner, and make them replace your fence and landscaping.
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Cows only have teeth on the bottom and a flat cartilaginous plate on the top.  Really  go lift up a lip and check it out!
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GRAZING COWS, by Ommeganck\n\nCLICK HERE AND ENJOY..\n\nhttp://www.safran-arts.com/42day/art/art4jan/18omgank/grazing.html
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mad cow would suggest cows..
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this is not too comon in my forty year i only recall one cow at all that i know of haveing two calves and it was a holsteen im a missouri farm boy i lived on a farm growing up and have tended cattle for some time before.ps who was 7 months pregnent ? the guy above me?
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I would say becasuse you can use cows as a general term. You can point to a herd and say "look at all the cows." You can't say "Look at all the bulls" unless they actually are a herd of uncasterated bovines :)
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No bulls don't have udders. A Bull is NOT a male cow! A bull is a male BOVINE. A cow is a female BOVINE.