#Cow Dairy Farm

[arewebeholdingaman]

✅️ featherless

❎️ four legged, and unguligrade at that

Wikipedia Dairy Cattle image is Not A Man!

[softpawssharpteeth]

Frolicking calves on their first day out.

[honeyrosepetals]

once alive, now left empty and abandoned

may 2024 (photo by me) / march 2012 (photo from facebook)

[backroad-life]

Credit: Harry Hundal

[homeofhousechickens]

Its always awkward to me that farm sanctuaries vilify dairy farmers about feeding waste foods mixed into the silage but then they turn around and do the same? Like its fine either way and both prevent food waste in landfills but don't act like one is somehow better then the other lol

[fawnvelveteen]

Cats Blackie & Brownie Catching Squirts Of Milk During Milking At Arch Badertscher's Dairy Farm In Fresno, California, 1954

[cowboymeemaw]

rant because its 6am, I haven't slept, and I ain't got shit to do. Anyway.

I don't understand them showmen who don't let their calves be cows. They fancy em up, get pissed when the calf does anything wrong. They don't seem to remember that it's their first time on earth too and they don't get that long.

On the night before sales day me and my best friend took our calves into the empty show ring, we dropped their halters and just let them play with each other. Just letting them exist and have fun before they're sent the the stockyard. And that entire time we got dirty looks from other showmen. During my sale I didn't stand there and set my calf up, I scratched his neck and let him lick my face. They're more than the trophies and the money.

It's the least you can could do for a calf that's gonna provide so much for you.

Picture- Nimi and his boyfriend Clover

[ahedderick]

I miss having cows. Hero is a delight, but I miss having cows.

Good times. I've sold so many cow paintings!

[comicdiaries]

Getting to tour an Organic Valley farm made a huge impression on me, as you can tell!

[spiritchill]

Moove me too the wilderness. 🐄

[holocene-sims]

fáilte abhaile 🚜

[somethingfromnothingsuddenly]

Winchester, California

[stardewthoughts]

cattle of stardew valley

this will be one half head cannon and one half speculation on the cattle of stardew valley, i hope you enjoy and let me know what you think

first off, lets cover what we know. for instance the cows come in 2 main colour's white and brown, but are treated as the same entity as well as at times, cows will birth calves of the opposite colour. we also know they produce 1 jug or regular or large milk a day depending on happiness

generally we can see a few things right away, the two colours belong to the same breed or grouping, and they have a milk production affected by care and age. all of that gives us a good starting point

my general headcannon is that stardew valley cattle belong to a breed of cattle with highly varying colours, something like shorthorns. or in place of being a proper breed they are a local landrace, which fits well with the games themes of a village stuck in the past. either way making the assumption the cows origins are quite local which could explain their milk production, based on size and dimension of the milk jug sprite/item in game, the best estimatr of milk output i can come up with (and verified by a dairy farmer and 2 farm workers) is about 9-14 litres or 2-3.5 gallons of milk a day, an output thats more inline with typical heritage/dual purpose breeds than commercial dairy animals

on top of that, making some estimated guesses based on the ingame sprites, these cows have short leg's with short broad square bodies, somewhat like jersey cattle, yet with more outward meat like a hereford cow, this body shape is logical, as their bodyplan is quite alike to cow breeds that tend to both graze pasture and forage brush

putting all this together, stardew valley cattle are seemingly a local landrace whos colour ranges from white to brown, that is well adapted to the regions forested hills and meadows while supplying an ample supply of meat and milk to local families, making these often overlooked animals all the more special to the area

[morethansalad]

No one told me Sorsha moved to TikTok! 👑 (@/sorshamorava)

[ksodirty]

[fabricdragondesigns]

Most dairy farms hit with H5N1 refuse to let public health or ag officials study their herds. One selfless rancher did. Here's the harrowing report.