Chill out, man!
Stress isn’t good for us. It shortens our lives, and it leads to “thinking errors” and it isn’t a nice feeling. On cattle farms, stressed...
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Owen Atkinson
- Apr 19
- 1 min
"Are Cows Ruining the Planet?"
I have not written a new blog for a few weeks - oops! So, for those of you who delight in listening to podcasts, you might enjoy this...
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Owen Atkinson
- Feb 13
- 6 min
The truth about cow tipping (and lying times)
Cow tipping is the supposed activity of sneaking up on a resting cow and tipping her over so she cannot rise. It is rumoured to be...
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Owen Atkinson
- Dec 27, 2023
- 4 min
Chewing the cud
A cow spends 8 hours a day chewing her cud. Just lying there, chillin' Cudding is an essential part of digesting her food. First, a bolus...
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Owen Atkinson
- Dec 9, 2023
- 6 min
Getting personal
My Grandad used to have a Jersey herd. That was long gone by the time I was born, but I do remember two old cows, which My Uncle Tony...
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Owen Atkinson
- Nov 29, 2023
- 4 min
Holy Cow!
Earlier this month, the 9th November, was Govatsa Dwadashi, marking the first day of Diwali celebrations for the Hindu faith. Basically,...
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Owen Atkinson
- Nov 21, 2023
- 5 min
Some initial thoughts on methane
Earlier posts discussed how primitive life forms (archaea) produce methane in the rumen, and how this is an essential part of a...
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Owen Atkinson
- Nov 16, 2023
- 4 min
What I learned from Mr Sábado
(Before I write this blog proper, I have to say the most immediately memorable thing I recall as I think about Mr Sábado was how he splat...
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Owen Atkinson
- Nov 9, 2023
- 3 min
Cow burps
This post follows on from talking about the rumen and other three stomachs of the cow. We'll just chew the cud on fermentation a little...
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Owen Atkinson
- Nov 1, 2023
- 3 min
It's like a jungle in there!
Around a third of a cow is its rumen. That’s stomach number one. It's huge - certainly taking up well over half of her abdomen. The rumen...
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Owen Atkinson
- Oct 20, 2023
- 5 min
Five born every minute...
There are around 8 million cattle of all ages in Great Britain, with another couple of million in Northern Ireland. We'll stick to GB, as...
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Owen Atkinson
- Oct 13, 2023
- 3 min
Understanding Cows...and where to begin?
The beginning is a strange place. Is it with Buttercup, the Jersey house cow who was such an important part of my childhood? Or Daisy,...
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