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Cow Urine Floor Cleaner
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 10, 2015 -
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Category: Cows, Body Fluids
Cow Ghost Terrorizes Town
Rogue cows are an old theme here on WU. This one apparently went rogue in the afterlife. As reported by the New York World - Aug 9, 1896.
[via Kay Massingill]
Posted By: Alex - Sun May 18, 2014 -
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Category: Paranormal, Cows, Nineteenth Century
The Cow Song
Elizabeth McGovern takes a break from her role in Downton Abbey to sing about cows.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 23, 2014 -
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Category: Music, Farming, Cows
Fear of Cows
Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 06, 2013 -
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Category: Cows
Become a Cow
Stanford researchers are using virtual reality gear to allow volunteers to experience what it feels like to be a cow. They're curious about whether the experience of temporarily "becoming" a cow will reduce people's desire to eat cows. If the video below doesn't work, the article is here.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 21, 2013 -
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Category: Science, Experiments, Cows
Long Life Cow Award
Ballydrum Celsius Betty is only 15 yrs old, which isn't even particularly old for a cow, since cows often reach the age of 20. Apparently the oldest cow on record is Big Bertha, who lived to be 49. After her death she was stuffed and is now on display somewhere in Beaufort, County Kerry.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Aug 04, 2013 -
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Category: Farming, Cows
Update on the cow urine industry
The "remote nondescript village" of Uttarakshi in India is taking a leap into the modern age. The villagers are helping to finance the construction of "an ultra modern hi tech distillation plant of 8000 litres capacity." What they'll be distilling is cow urine.According to the press release on pharmabiz.com:
distilled purified cow urine is being sold in the market at Rs.40 per 100 milli litre with the brand name of Divya Godhan Ark prescribed for indications like general debility, obesity, abdominal diseases, skin diseases, diabetes, cough and asthma. It is recommended in doses of 10 to 20 ml based on the indication and as prescribed by the physician.
If all goes well, the Uttarakshi plant can be expanded to up production to 10,000 litres of the liquid gold daily.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 16, 2013 -
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Category: Medicine, Cows
Burpless Cows
This is desirable — so much so that the EU is willing to put up €7.7 million in funding for the research — because it's the cow's belches that contain the atmosphere-warming methane. So the plan is that burpless cows will help save us from the spectre of global warming.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 07, 2013 -
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Category: Science, Cows
Please Poop, Mr. Cow!
Although modern science has been able to send a man to the moon, it has not been able to make cows poop on command. An effort to solve this shortcoming is described in a recent issue of Applied Animal Behaviour Science.The thing is, it would be really nice, for the purpose of general hygiene, if farmers could convince cows to stop pooping wherever they felt like it. So researchers devised a series of tests to see if prompts such as walking through a footbath, or being exposed to blasts of air or water, could stimulate bovine defecation. No such luck. The researchers concluded, "None of our tests reliably stimulated defecation, which seemed to occur most when cows were exposed to novelty."
Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 17, 2013 -
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Category: Science, Experiments, Farming, Cows, Excrement
CowCows
Your challenge is to guess whether this product is real or imaginary. The answer is below in extended.Product Description: CowCows (aka VACHEMENT VACHE). Created by designer Cyprien Côté.
Completely 'fed up' with seeing cows unsuccessfully wipe flies from their eyes, [Côté] came up with an ear extender that could be used by the cow to fully remove any pest that was bothering them. They were made out of a super-soft material and cost about fifty cents (Canadian) per set.
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Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 27, 2013 -
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Category: Inventions, Cows
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