HDRider":2sa7eegh said:That's just mean..
We are Facebook friends. Take way more than that to bother Nesi.
HDRider":2sa7eegh said:That's just mean..
I was talking about his mother.. :shock: :shock:Margonme":iyokmhnt said:HDRider":iyokmhnt said:That's just mean..
We are Facebook friends. Take way more than that to bother Nesi.
them ain't burps.....danl":ibxw7tln said:If I'm checking on mine at night if I talk before I get to them they pretty much ignore me and don't even get up. Their flight distance goes down from about six feet to none. I kind of enjoy the peaceful atmosphere, when they are all laying in a big cluster ruminating and destroying the ozone with their burps..
Margonme":3n53l9v5 said:Nesikep":3n53l9v5 said:They know who you are by *everything* about you.. your smell, the sound of your walk, etc!.. Mega doesn't like my mother much.. she can be bribed with treats, but other than that she turns her nose up at my mother and walks a few paces off.. My mother has tried EVERYTHING to fool her, nothing works.. she's worn my clothes and smoked my cigarettes.. nope, she won't be fooled.
Also, cows have incomplete color vision, I think they have improved black/white vision which is important for low-light though.
I routinely walk through the herd at night with no trouble whatsoever.. in the summer it usually never gets 100% dark here so I know where I'm going without a flashlight... It has happened more than once that I tripped over a cow though!
That is funny. I went into a group of mine when I was breeding to check one's vulva for discharge. They were laying where I had the hay ring. I had moved the ring so they could use the waste hay to lay on. I got my feet caught and fell over the cow I was checking. It was dangerous because my head was in range if another cow got nervous and kicked while she was laying.
Early flashlights used a battery that was very short lived, and the bulbs nearly as bad. The inventor (predecessor of Eveready) gave his invention the name 'flashlight' because the light it made was brief. And, if you've ever seen an old carbon arc or carbon filament bulb go out, you know they do it with a bright flash..then total darkness. The first batteries didn't discharge at a steady voltage rate either..meaning the bulb would glow bright, then dim, then suddenly very bright. I remember seeing some of those old carbon/lead batteries when I was a kid.Alan":16ug5gbv said:I'm with the group satiating their cattle act different when I have to walk around them at night with a flashlight. I have very docile cattle and they know me very well, a simple call to them gets them pretty much where I want them during daylight hours. In the dark they are a bit more flighty and they keep me on my toes, I make sure they hear the sound of my voice at night before I go into the pasture.
Also the torch=flashlight got me thinking. We call it a flashlight here, but what is "flash" about it? No flash, it's a steady beam of light...torch makes a lot more sense.
greybeard":oaukwf2r said:Early flashlights used a battery that was very short lived, and the bulbs nearly as bad. The inventor (predecessor of Eveready) gave his invention the name 'flashlight' because the light it made was brief. And, if you've ever seen an old carbon arc or carbon filament bulb go out, you know they do it with a bright flash..then total darkness. The first batteries didn't discharge at a steady voltage rate either..meaning the bulb would glow bright, then dim, then suddenly very bright. I remember seeing some of those old carbon/lead batteries when I was a kid.Alan":oaukwf2r said:I'm with the group satiating their cattle act different when I have to walk around them at night with a flashlight. I have very docile cattle and they know me very well, a simple call to them gets them pretty much where I want them during daylight hours. In the dark they are a bit more flighty and they keep me on my toes, I make sure they hear the sound of my voice at night before I go into the pasture.
Also the torch=flashlight got me thinking. We call it a flashlight here, but what is "flash" about it? No flash, it's a steady beam of light...torch makes a lot more sense.
greybeard":2uq9qnat said:I never really thought much about it, but when they are up close to the house, I can hear my cows munching along the fence outside the yard. Can they actually 'see' what they are eating? Never hear them bumbling or stumbling into things in the dark either (like I do)..or walk right into a fence or tree on the darkest nights (like I've done)..
Just how good is a cow's night vision?
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Is to burps... I found it on Huffington post so I know it must be rightgreybeard":ei9raed0 said:them ain't burps.....danl":ei9raed0 said:If I'm checking on mine at night if I talk before I get to them they pretty much ignore me and don't even get up. Their flight distance goes down from about six feet to none. I kind of enjoy the peaceful atmosphere, when they are all laying in a big cluster ruminating and destroying the ozone with their burps..