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On 3/04/2015 1:36 AM, Christina Wahl wrote:
> Geoff,
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> "The point here is what happens to a cow, dairy or otherwise when she has to forage for herself. So you ask a husbandman."
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> The challenge in testing the claim here is twofold: One, no husbandman will willingly release a dairy cow to fend for herself without compensation for loss of milk (and probably the cow too, I doubt that any dairy farmer would believe that "Number 2069" would be able to stay healthy on her own in the neighboring state park).
I am willing to put my hand up as a husbandman who has. True, most if
not all dairy cows in this country are not housed, and spend their time
between milkings in a paddock with green forage available. I live on
what in this country is called a bush block, or if mentioned in the
press 'rugged steep bushland'. In the days when I had a house cow(s)
they spent their time grazing, and to some extent browsing in this
country. If they were dry virtually all their time. These all
originated from a functioning dairy, most from a locally well known
Jersey stud. In fact if not mustered regularly they became effectually
feral.
Geoff Manning
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