Fat Tony@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-222 days agoTIL cows can suffer from fatal bloated stomachs. A way of treating it is by puncture and burning the released methane gas (to determine how much is remaining).lemmy.worldvideomessage-square41linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1videoTIL cows can suffer from fatal bloated stomachs. A way of treating it is by puncture and burning the released methane gas (to determine how much is remaining).lemmy.worldFat Tony@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-222 days agomessage-square41linkfedilink
minus-squareblargh513@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoTheyre typically fed corn because it is cheaper, easy to store and transport and it makes beef taste “better”. Cows are supposed to eat grass, not corn.
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoPedant here: corn is a grass. Modified by centuries of selective breeding, and not endemic to the region where the aurochs were domesticated.
minus-squarePyr@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoCorn is a grass, but you are typically feeding them the grain of the grass rather than the stalks and leaves which they should be eating. Normally grass grains aren’t the majority diet of cows, it’s the leaves.
minus-squareSuccessful_Try543@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-221 days agoAfaIk, the entire plant is chopped, fermented and fed to cattle. Yet, compared to grass, corn has a higher content on easily digestable carbohydrates.
minus-squarePulptastic@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoCorn is grass the same way sugar is grass or bread is grass.
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoNot quite the same way. Bread and sugar are products we make from grasses (wheat & sugar cane). High fructose corn syrup is grass in the same way as sugar and bread, and beer for that matter.
minus-squarePulptastic@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoIt has been cultivated to produce huge starchy kernels and is then refined to remove all other parts.
Theyre typically fed corn because it is cheaper, easy to store and transport and it makes beef taste “better”. Cows are supposed to eat grass, not corn.
Pedant here: corn is a grass. Modified by centuries of selective breeding, and not endemic to the region where the aurochs were domesticated.
Corn is a grass, but you are typically feeding them the grain of the grass rather than the stalks and leaves which they should be eating.
Normally grass grains aren’t the majority diet of cows, it’s the leaves.
AfaIk, the entire plant is chopped, fermented and fed to cattle. Yet, compared to grass, corn has a higher content on easily digestable carbohydrates.
Corn is grass the same way sugar is grass or bread is grass.
Not quite the same way. Bread and sugar are products we make from grasses (wheat & sugar cane).
High fructose corn syrup is grass in the same way as sugar and bread, and beer for that matter.
It has been cultivated to produce huge starchy kernels and is then refined to remove all other parts.