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Trough
The work of artist Ruth Burke focuses on the connection between humans and other species, mainly livestock. In her performance "Trough" (2016) she let cows feed from a cone-shaped trough around her neck. From her website:This performance reverses the typical power structures engaged in by humans and cows. Rather than the human consuming from the body of the cow, my bovine collaborator consumes from an appendage on my body. I am on my knees in a blue costume that features a large cone around my most vulnerable corporeal parts, the neck and the head. The dark blue color is a play on cow’s dichromatic vision and the cone is filled with treats. The relationship between birth, death, and consumption is one perpetually unfinished.
Looked dangerous to me. I kept expecting one of the cows to chomp off her nose or ears.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 19, 2025 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art, Cows
California Dairy Princesses
The selection of Dairy Princesses continues to this day.California Dairy Princesses serve as industry advocates in their home district and throughout the state, supporting the reputation of milk and dairy products through appearances at various events. Dairy Princesses and alternates participate in a mandatory orientation/training where they receive professional development coaching.
The California Dairy Princess Program has been in effect since 1958. Currently seven districts hold local contests, which represent 48 counties in the state of California. The California Dairy Princess contest is supported by California dairy producers through the California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB).
A good article here.
California Dairy Princess at the Sonoma County Fair, Santa Rosa, California, July 21, 1958
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 01, 2024 -
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Category: Agriculture, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Regionalism, Cows, 1950s
Cattle Bleaching
Strange news from Crook County, Wyoming:Two ranchers, the Carrolls, were charged with bleaching spots on their neighbor’s cows — but not just any kind of spots. Many of the bleach marks resembled male genitalia.
Nearly 200 cows were bleached. However, the judge dismissed the case because he couldn't find enough evidence to bring charges.
More info: Cowboy State Daily, AG Daily
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 10, 2023 -
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Category: Cows
Cow-Stomach Handbags
Artist Billie van Katwijk makes handbags (and purses, wallets, etc.) out of cow stomachs. They're available for purchase, but not cheap. A coin purse, for instance, will cost you over $200.More info: Ventri Leather, Studio Billie van Katwijk
Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 23, 2023 -
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Category: Fashion, Cows
A Moose for Jessica
In 1987, a wild moose fell in love with what zoologists refer to as a "biologically inappropriate object". His love interest was a cow named Jessica who lived on the Vermont farm of Larry Carrara.For over two months the moose displayed courtship behavior towards Jessica. He followed her all around, would rest his head on her back, or would push hay toward her as a food offering.
The moose and Jessica
Over 75,000 sightseers came out to Carrara's farm to witness this interspecies romance.
Finally, after 76 days, rutting season came to an end and the moose lost interest in Jessica and wandered back into the wild.
The moose
The romance between the moose and Jessica inspired the book A Moose for Jessica, written by Pat Wakefield with photographs by Larry Carrara. It's available on Amazon, or you can read it for free at archive.org.
More info: wikipedia, New England Living
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 10, 2021 -
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Category: Animals, Cows, Books, 1980s, Love & Romance
Grade Up To Elite Cow
BoardGameGeek.com describes this boardgame (which came out in 1986) as a "game of skill and chance for Dairy Farmers' made by Waddingtons of behalf of 'The British Friesian Cattle Society of Great Britain and Ireland.'"YouTuber David Ball offers more details, describing it as a "rare cow-insemination boardgame," noting that the aim of the game is to "to collect semen, then inseminate your friesian cows & breed an 'Elite Status' herd."
It reminds me of the game Antler Island, which is about stags mating with does. The existence of these two games, taken together, means there's a genre of boardgames about animal breeding.
source: University of Reading
Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 25, 2021 -
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Category: Games, Cows
Cow-Tongue Baldness Cure
Several sources have independently reported that the way to cure baldness is to have a cow lick your head.
Regina Leader-Post - Mar 8, 1984
Colombian hairdresser says he can lick baldness
November 29, 2000
PEREIRA, Colombia -- Want to lick hair loss? A Colombian hairdresser says he has found a way to lick baldness -- literally. His offbeat scalp treatment involves a special tonic and massage -- with a cow's tongue. "I feel more manly, more attractive to women," says customer Henry Gomez. "My friends even say 'What are you doing? You have more hair. You look younger.'"
November 29, 2000
PEREIRA, Colombia -- Want to lick hair loss? A Colombian hairdresser says he has found a way to lick baldness -- literally. His offbeat scalp treatment involves a special tonic and massage -- with a cow's tongue. "I feel more manly, more attractive to women," says customer Henry Gomez. "My friends even say 'What are you doing? You have more hair. You look younger.'"
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 10, 2021 -
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Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Cows, Hair and Hairstyling
Home heated by cows
Back in 1951, Swedish engineer Marten Blomquist figured out, through experimentation, that the heat from 18 cows could heat his home.I wonder how many humans it would take to heat a cow shed?
The Hanover Evening Sun - May 14, 1951
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 17, 2020 -
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Category: Cows, 1950s
Trampled by cows
The annual ceremony practiced in the Indian town of Bhidawad sounds a bit like Pamplona's Running of the Bulls, except with cows, and instead of running away from them, you lie down and let the cows trample you. From Dunya News:The ritual that is performed a day after the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, in Bhidawad village, about 75 kilometres from central temple town of Ujjain, is part of the ‘Gaay-Gauri Puja’ (Cow worship). The cows of the village were decorated and worshipped as devotees danced and took out a procession. After the prayer ceremony, some of the devotees lied down and let the cows trample them by running over them.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 07, 2019 -
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Category: Ceremonies, Parades and Festivals, Cows
Bossy the Electrified Cow
In the future, when robot cows rule the world, they'll look back on Bossy as one of the first of their kind.
Sumter County Journal - Apr 17, 1941
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 29, 2019 -
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Category: Robots, Technology, AI, Robots and Other Automatons, Farming, Cows, 1940s
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