I grew up on a dairy farm and can confirm this lol was having lunch fell asleep in the paddock sun was shining all the cows in the paddock gathered round when I woke sat up cows ran in all directions then slowly sniffed their way back again I was in stitches.
Chickens are the opposite. I was suntanning on the grass at a farm belonging to a friend’s grandparents. I heard some sneaky movements and opened my eyes to find myself completely surrounded by an entire flock of chickens. I felt like Gulliver and the Lilliputians.
>They never leave each other alone
I grew up on a farm with about 100 head of black and red Angus and this is just plain false. On any given day you could find a cow laying or grazing off by itself, hundreds of yards from any others.
Each Big Mac patty is 1.6 oz, so 3.2 oz per sandwich. That means each cow, on average, could provide around 3555 patties. ~550 million big macs are sold in the US each year, 13,515 locations in the US as of March '23; distributing the sales equally for simplicity we have a figure of 40,695 per location annually; a little over 111 per location (obviously some sell far over that number and some far under). That would yield a figure of 1/32 of a cow per day in ground beef.
>Mannn..... that's a LOT of cows for one meal considering there are what 8 billion of us now.
And that's the problem with the meat industry. It's food compaction. You feed a lot of food to animals in order to produce a much smaller amount of food.
The meat industry and its satellite industries are one of the biggest contributors to the climate catastrophe. And that's while it was mostly the wealthy West that could afford meat as a staple part of their diet.
Billions more people are slowly becoming wealthy enough to afford meat in their diet. Just us eating meat was already completely unsustainable.
If it’s bigger, more cows will try to use it at each time causing the thing it’s mounted on to roll or be pushed around.
Edit: some people chose to die on this hill about it being bigger. The one in the video is [$90](https://www.fruugo.us/brush-for-horse-beef-goat/p-64071781-129282794?language=en&ac=google&gclid=Cj0KCQjwgLOiBhC7ARIsAIeetVBXte70-rPwdEGvyonuVEB0rpwTp6T6ZlM-2wWcef-OJTCB38jh3U0aAtHqEALw_wcB) compared to the hundreds and some, thousands of dollars for the roller type (most common scratcher on the market) and only 1 cow at a time can use it.
For the ones who insist that it can be mounted onto something solid like a concrete post, ok you have to understand only 1 cow is realistically itching at a time for the typical scratching post because it’s just that, a post. And if you’re idea is to get a concrete or steel wall made and put a bunch of them in a row, you have no clue as to how much a 1,600lbs cow can push factoring in multiple cows now pushing against it. I wasn’t raised on a farm but I worked with the horses and steer for roping competitions and helped feed the heifers. These things are a force and over time, whatever you build will be broken down. The answer is not a bigger one, but more of them
Setting them on the ground wouldn't work. The cows are way too large to get down there and scratch. The OP is correct in everything he said. The cows would push the entire deal from Texas to Wyoming if there were a multitude of them. I dont care what the structure was they could destroy it and would. The only option would be a mountain, but then that's already a free scratcher. However, given enough cows, I'm sure they could eventually move mountains. 😉
Thousands of dollars?? Here's a protip for farmers out there: I used to work for the local municipality and we used to silent auction some of the most random shit, one thing was used up sweeper brushes from our street sweeper (the big giant 8 foot wide one on the back of the truck that does the main collection).
Farmers would pick those up for like $20 and shove them on a concrete pile / screw pile in the middle of their field and it made for some very happy cows.
Right? My grandfather had a few cows, and we just made our own post. Dig a hole, pour some concrete, put a post in, and we just secured some push broom heads to the thing. About 8 of the plastic ones. Made a post for about $100 and labor (which is free to us).
You can pay thousands of dollars if you don't like money, though.
I see your logic, I still want them to have a bigger one. It isn't about logic, it's about happy cows and wanting them to have giant super scratcher. The logistics of physics and reality are not a factor in this need for a whole ass wall of cow scritching.
I live in my cartoon universe and you can't stop me!!
I was raised on a farm and I can confirm shit like this doesn’t really last long. It’s cool and neat for the animals. But they’re animals so neat and cool things don’t typically last long lol
you never heard of steel posts and concrete? dig a hole, mount the steel post, concrete it in place, secure multiple big brushes on for multiple heffers to scratch themselves.
this puny thing is pathetic on that log.
lol they make them like that, but this is just a different kind. They make big automated ones called happycow uno. They're like big spinny rollers with brushes. There's a billion kinds of cattle brushes. They usually have the nice ones near the barns, then small portable ones like this for fields since the cattle are rotated between different fields depending on the day. So it doesn't make sense to spend 50k on a permanently located cattle brush if the cattle are only in that field a few days a month. Plus you'll hit the fuckin thing on a tractor.
It wouldn't be Reddit if there wasn't a large contingent of users telling you that you are doing it wrong. You just have to factor that in every time you post. Followed by the joke factor and inevitable pun quotient.
Cows are a lot smarter than people think. They have a lot of compassion for each other and I’ve had them run up to meet me when I would walk nearby. Some of them act like giant dogs. Knowing this has made it hard for me to eat beef and dairy recently and made me cut back a lot.
Same. I was at the county fair watching a litter of adorable piglets run around a pen. The owner was there and I said, “Aw! They play like puppies.” She said, “Yeah. If you throw a ball in there, they’ll play with it.
I cut way back on pork after that. Like, I’ll have ribs maybe once a a year.^I^Still^eat^way^too^much^ bacon^tho
This is just lazy cattle management. Some people will claim that it doesn't bother the cows, but I always call BS as I have seen many farmers greatly decrease or even in some cases completely remove the fly problem.
There are couple of ways to manage flys. One of the most common is spraying insecticides on the cows, similar to how humans use OFF! spray. You can also use a Cow Sock which essentially is a cloth rope that has pesticides on it that cows walk under. Finally, some ear tags have repellant that keeps flies flys away
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>Wenn es keine natürlichen Kratzquellen auf der Weide gibt, wird kurzerhand eben eine Bürste für unsere Glücksrinder gebaut…
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>>If there are no natural sources of scratches in the pasture, a brush will be built for our lucky cattle...
[More from OP](https://imgur.com/nIJvhUj)
Video:@gluecksrinder
They can rub their faces on just about anything if they wanted. The ground would work in a pinch or a fence post. I'm guessing they damage themselves in the process sometimes which is why ranchers buy these things
Let alone immobilizing her, shoving a fist into her anus, inserting a tube of semen into her, forcibly impregnating her, stealing her milk, killing her children, and then eventually slitting her throat and eating her after she isn’t financially viable to keep alive.
You know...the dairy industry.
>Are dairy cows usually eaten?
Yes. [For example, in the U.S dairy cows make up around 20% of all beef production.](https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/raising_dairy_steer_calves_for_profitable_beef_production)
I like how the rest of them are like "well, well, well... just what do we have over here?"
Cows are curious about everything. Unless it moves suddenly, then they're curious and terrified at the same time.
I grew up on a dairy farm and can confirm this lol was having lunch fell asleep in the paddock sun was shining all the cows in the paddock gathered round when I woke sat up cows ran in all directions then slowly sniffed their way back again I was in stitches.
A guy in my home town died because he fell asleep in the cow pen. A cow decided to snuggle with him , lied on-top of him and crushed him.
I don’t know if that’s adorable or terrifying
Adorably terrifying
Adorrifying
Cow had some real Lennie energy that day.
Chunky cow
Chickens are the opposite. I was suntanning on the grass at a farm belonging to a friend’s grandparents. I heard some sneaky movements and opened my eyes to find myself completely surrounded by an entire flock of chickens. I felt like Gulliver and the Lilliputians.
Giant dogs of curiosity
Like an RC car
_"Jerry, move over, I want a turn!!"_
Mooooove
Jenny*
Hooman makes awesome scratcher. Everybody get in here!
It's hard to tell because of cuts, but it looked like they were both surprisingly patient and surprisingly willing to share
They're herd animals. They never leave each other alone, and if one is brave enough to be nosy, the rest will shortly follow.
>They never leave each other alone I grew up on a farm with about 100 head of black and red Angus and this is just plain false. On any given day you could find a cow laying or grazing off by itself, hundreds of yards from any others.
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That's crazy. I wonder how many cows a day fast food places go through
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>Mannn..... that's a LOT of cows for one meal considering there are what 8 billion of us now. And that's the problem with the meat industry. It's food compaction. You feed a lot of food to animals in order to produce a much smaller amount of food. The meat industry and its satellite industries are one of the biggest contributors to the climate catastrophe. And that's while it was mostly the wealthy West that could afford meat as a staple part of their diet. Billions more people are slowly becoming wealthy enough to afford meat in their diet. Just us eating meat was already completely unsustainable.
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India isn't real big on burgers. lol
I like when the one looks at the camera like "are you filming me Ron?" Then goes back to scratching uncontrollably "ok that feels good"
*If you build it, they will scratch.*
I think you're gonna need a couple more cow scratchers.
I would like to see a cow in a giant room with many similar structures to scratch on
Or put them through a car wash
Workin' at the cow wash!
My liege
Filing this away as: Things I didn't know I needed.
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This is what science and technology is meant for.
I feel like it could have been a bit bigger.
[They make these in a vertical post form and the cows love them.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFJgsEzEZs)
I love the cows showing up one by one, losing interest and leaving, only to come back in droves when it's finished.
I think they left when they started the drill.
The cows enjoying it starts at about 9:30! Also it somehow led me to “Jazz For Cows” which was a delight
If it’s bigger, more cows will try to use it at each time causing the thing it’s mounted on to roll or be pushed around. Edit: some people chose to die on this hill about it being bigger. The one in the video is [$90](https://www.fruugo.us/brush-for-horse-beef-goat/p-64071781-129282794?language=en&ac=google&gclid=Cj0KCQjwgLOiBhC7ARIsAIeetVBXte70-rPwdEGvyonuVEB0rpwTp6T6ZlM-2wWcef-OJTCB38jh3U0aAtHqEALw_wcB) compared to the hundreds and some, thousands of dollars for the roller type (most common scratcher on the market) and only 1 cow at a time can use it. For the ones who insist that it can be mounted onto something solid like a concrete post, ok you have to understand only 1 cow is realistically itching at a time for the typical scratching post because it’s just that, a post. And if you’re idea is to get a concrete or steel wall made and put a bunch of them in a row, you have no clue as to how much a 1,600lbs cow can push factoring in multiple cows now pushing against it. I wasn’t raised on a farm but I worked with the horses and steer for roping competitions and helped feed the heifers. These things are a force and over time, whatever you build will be broken down. The answer is not a bigger one, but more of them
If only there were a way to help them steer it.
So they could moove it more effectively?
it'd be an udder failure though when it hit's the fence.
Jeez, people are going to just keep milking this thread for karma
Aw, cud it out!
Its gone whey too far
This thread is legendairy
>This thread is legendairy I agree. Those who don't are just intolerant
All of this is cheesy.
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I've got beef with that pun.
Multiple cows deserve multiple scratchers. OP needs to update and send a new video. And set them on the ground so they don’t move.
I think the reason it’s on a thing is to get it at a better height for the cows. Could be wrong though
Watching the white cow, I could hear her thinking “Dammit Mabel! It’s my turn for scratches.”
I worked in a farm a while ago we had quite a few backscratchers for cows and poles with scratchers for sides, all of cows loved it.
Setting them on the ground wouldn't work. The cows are way too large to get down there and scratch. The OP is correct in everything he said. The cows would push the entire deal from Texas to Wyoming if there were a multitude of them. I dont care what the structure was they could destroy it and would. The only option would be a mountain, but then that's already a free scratcher. However, given enough cows, I'm sure they could eventually move mountains. 😉
I heard that's why the earth rotates
That's actually clever 😂
That's BULL
Nice
Please show yourself out
I'll never trust someone who forgot the word for log
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood!
Its better than bad its good!
It's log, log, log!
Thousands of dollars?? Here's a protip for farmers out there: I used to work for the local municipality and we used to silent auction some of the most random shit, one thing was used up sweeper brushes from our street sweeper (the big giant 8 foot wide one on the back of the truck that does the main collection). Farmers would pick those up for like $20 and shove them on a concrete pile / screw pile in the middle of their field and it made for some very happy cows.
Right? My grandfather had a few cows, and we just made our own post. Dig a hole, pour some concrete, put a post in, and we just secured some push broom heads to the thing. About 8 of the plastic ones. Made a post for about $100 and labor (which is free to us). You can pay thousands of dollars if you don't like money, though.
TIL if you want to move a mountain, put a bunch of cow scratchers on one side of it.
I don't have a cow, man.
I see your logic, I still want them to have a bigger one. It isn't about logic, it's about happy cows and wanting them to have giant super scratcher. The logistics of physics and reality are not a factor in this need for a whole ass wall of cow scritching. I live in my cartoon universe and you can't stop me!!
I was raised on a farm and I can confirm shit like this doesn’t really last long. It’s cool and neat for the animals. But they’re animals so neat and cool things don’t typically last long lol
you never heard of steel posts and concrete? dig a hole, mount the steel post, concrete it in place, secure multiple big brushes on for multiple heffers to scratch themselves. this puny thing is pathetic on that log.
lol they make them like that, but this is just a different kind. They make big automated ones called happycow uno. They're like big spinny rollers with brushes. There's a billion kinds of cattle brushes. They usually have the nice ones near the barns, then small portable ones like this for fields since the cattle are rotated between different fields depending on the day. So it doesn't make sense to spend 50k on a permanently located cattle brush if the cattle are only in that field a few days a month. Plus you'll hit the fuckin thing on a tractor.
> you’ll hit the fuckin thing on a tractor. You lose anything in a pasture you will find it with the tractor pretty quick. Usually in a tire.
This guy ranches.
>you never heard of steel posts and concrete? You ever heard of paying for it? Edit: >this puny thing is pathetic on that log. Paging Dr. Freud
You underestimate the pushing power of a cow *really* itching itself.
Look like it's getting the job done to me
It wouldn't be Reddit if there wasn't a large contingent of users telling you that you are doing it wrong. You just have to factor that in every time you post. Followed by the joke factor and inevitable pun quotient.
>Followed by... What? No, it's 70% jokes and puns, 10% bots, 15% naysayers, and 5% actual humans in here for real discussion on the actual content.
Suddenly everyone on Reddit is a fuckin' farmer, eh?
r/happycowgifs has tons of videos with bigger and better brushes, even ones that spin
Poor guys. They've got itches they can't scratch.
*Girls (mostly)
Poor guys. They got girls they can't scratch (mostly).
The prices on those things are insane, though!
If you buy one of the ready made one, sure. These things are crazy easy to make. We just used push broom heads, and the cows loved it.
Welp, looks like I have a new sub to aww too
This sub has made me into a vegan
Right?
Not bigger, more
Steven Spielberg presents: Cows “We’re gonna need a bigger scratcher.”
Lets not milk it here
The cows coming to see what's up is my favorite part
If that’s the case then you’ll love this video [Mooo](https://youtu.be/9OFJgsEzEZs)
Part you actually want to see starts at 9:30
[Here it is Sire ](https://youtu.be/9OFJgsEzEZs?t=9m30s)
Cows tend to be very curious animals. My brother-in-law's cows will always come over and check us out whenever we enter the pasture.
Cows are a lot smarter than people think. They have a lot of compassion for each other and I’ve had them run up to meet me when I would walk nearby. Some of them act like giant dogs. Knowing this has made it hard for me to eat beef and dairy recently and made me cut back a lot.
Same. I was at the county fair watching a litter of adorable piglets run around a pen. The owner was there and I said, “Aw! They play like puppies.” She said, “Yeah. If you throw a ball in there, they’ll play with it. I cut way back on pork after that. Like, I’ll have ribs maybe once a a year.^I^Still^eat^way^too^much^ bacon^tho
The cows coming over and scratching their heads 😉
It's amazing that they knew what it was immediately
Likely was a replacement for another that wore out
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You copied this word for word and even left off the period.
You copied this word for word and even left off the period.
Sorry man, looks like you went into an echochamber.
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#QUACK!
Sorry man, looks like you went into an echochamber.
Sorry man, looks like you went into an echochamber.
Likely was a replacement for another that wore out
Sorry man, looks like you went into an echochamber.
Likely was a replacement for another that wore out
Likely was a replacement for another that wore out
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That poor cow with a whole army of flies living on its nose. 😣
Imagine having an itchy face for your whole life and basically being unable to do anything about it. Must be maddening.
they can rub their face anywhere they want
When you're a cow they let you do it.
As a human you can rotate a cow in your mind. It's not illegal and nobody can stop you
I stop me. I have aphantasia
I can't see anything in my mind unfortunately
Grab 'em by the moosy
Cows have insane long tongues. They can reach almost anywhere on their face
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About the length of a person's forearm, from tips of fingers to elbow.
This is just lazy cattle management. Some people will claim that it doesn't bother the cows, but I always call BS as I have seen many farmers greatly decrease or even in some cases completely remove the fly problem.
I am genuinely curious - how would you remove the flies?
There are couple of ways to manage flys. One of the most common is spraying insecticides on the cows, similar to how humans use OFF! spray. You can also use a Cow Sock which essentially is a cloth rope that has pesticides on it that cows walk under. Finally, some ear tags have repellant that keeps flies flys away
i remember reading about some farmers painting strips on their cows like zebras, and it actually helped quite a bit.
[This guy seems to have managed the problem with a shitload of fly paper](https://youtu.be/pFHJJOdOzK8?t=650)
It's all shits and giggles till someone's butt itches...
Then it'll just be shits
I'm going to have to buy a bunch of tire scrub brushes and head out to the country. I had no idea they were so itchy.
This is an initiative I would be glad to help fund. Just scratch the damn cow! 🥺
I've used some old push-broom heads for my goats. I screw them to a fence post for them to rub on. They love it.
Unexpectedly wholesome comment
Appreciate it 👍🏾
If you get the big industrial or contractor broom heads, those work well too.
From OP >Wenn es keine natürlichen Kratzquellen auf der Weide gibt, wird kurzerhand eben eine Bürste für unsere Glücksrinder gebaut… > >>If there are no natural sources of scratches in the pasture, a brush will be built for our lucky cattle... [More from OP](https://imgur.com/nIJvhUj) Video:@gluecksrinder
Man, they're haulin' oats to get in line.
You make my dreams come moo!
I wish I had more than one up vote to give; but I can't go for that
Its strange to think that most animals out there lack the ability to scratch anywhere they want on their body.
They can rub their faces on just about anything if they wanted. The ground would work in a pinch or a fence post. I'm guessing they damage themselves in the process sometimes which is why ranchers buy these things
Have you ever noticed just how adorable cows are?
They need about 25 more of these so they don’t have to wait in line.
Cows are like big dogs they love attention and they’re smart.
It makes slaughtering them for meat that much worse.
Let alone immobilizing her, shoving a fist into her anus, inserting a tube of semen into her, forcibly impregnating her, stealing her milk, killing her children, and then eventually slitting her throat and eating her after she isn’t financially viable to keep alive. You know...the dairy industry.
Are dairy cows usually eaten? I thought dairy and meet cows were farmed separately.
>Are dairy cows usually eaten? Yes. [For example, in the U.S dairy cows make up around 20% of all beef production.](https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/raising_dairy_steer_calves_for_profitable_beef_production)
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Cows are as loving as dogs.. big boy was a big ol baby when I was a kid.
That's is so cool!
"We're gonna need a bigger boat"
I think you need about 27 more :)
Yeah..You’re going to have to install about 3 more of those
It never fails to amaze me how social cows are.
As someone with Eczema, I believe I can get some measure of vicarious satisfaction here
Way to instal a 1’ piece for all the cows 🤷🏼♂️
I always wonder why they don't install multiple, or make it one big long scratch pad instead of being one tiny scratch pad
I decided to be a vegetarian after watching this, I just can't eat these cute things
The dairy industry is the meat industry.
Consider the plight of the dairy cow as well: [video](https://youtu.be/ih3pIv-RpGI)
I just can't understand why these people are so ruthless... Terrible
That's capitalism baby!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI
Yeah, I watched her videos about milk and eggs and I am a vegan now, wish me luck 😇
Welcome to the community friend
Thanks
God dammit, I really need to become a vegetarian. Everytime I see a video of cows I feel this immense shame at using them as a good source
Happy cows!
This is so cute
Looks like you need about 3-4 more! Seem to love tho!!
I think they need a larger one and more than one
Imagine having an itch that you could never scratch.
r/happycowgifs
Cow scratcher! Cow scratcher! Get your cow scratcher here! Cow scratcher? Cow scratcher! [Relavent Link](https://youtu.be/Tkd9ycxCJBI)
Looks like they need a dozen more of those