Re: Re was bacon: now magnets

[Guest guest]

At 09:14 PM 2/19/03 +0000, you wrote:

>

>> Don't know about chain eating but it used to be a common practice

>for beef and

>> dairy farmers to give them a magnet which they'd willingly eat.

>This was to

>> attract any metal like nails they would eat so they wouldn't get

>perforated

>> intestines. When Dad had the slaughterhouse prior to the piggery

>there he'd

>> shown me quite a few magnets out of bovine stomachs with various

>hardware

>> attached. Maybe mineral licks have broke this metal craving.

>>

>> Wanita

>

>

>Actually this is still done.  There is a group called Homestead

>Cow that had a discussion about it a while back.

>

>Ghislaine

Cool! That was a 40 year old memory. :-) Another thing done then was worming

with plug tobacco. Dad someone knew the right amount for each breed to stick

down its throat to do the job.

Wanita

[Guest guest]

Cows and " Hardware "

Just a note cows don't eat metal for lack of minerals, they eat dirt for

that.

Cows swallow everything whole and then regurgitate it and chew it after

it has been in the first stomach a while.

That's how cows get metal known as " hardware " and so the magnets attract

the metal to the sides of the magnets instead of the stomach walls which

pokes holes in them.

I knew a farmer who remodeled the interior of his barn and forgot to

tell the carpenters to clean up after they were done including sweeping

with a big magnet for nails and two weeks later had 3 dead cows.

Wanita Sears wrote:

> At 09:14 PM 2/19/03 +0000, you wrote:

> >

> >> Don't know about chain eating but it used to be a common practice

> >for beef and

> >> dairy farmers to give them a magnet which they'd willingly eat.

> >This was to

> >> attract any metal like nails they would eat so they wouldn't get

> >perforated

> >> intestines. When Dad had the slaughterhouse prior to the piggery

> >there he'd

> >> shown me quite a few magnets out of bovine stomachs with various

> >hardware

> >> attached. Maybe mineral licks have broke this metal craving.

> >>

> >> Wanita

> >

> >

> >Actually this is still done. There is a group called Homestead

>

> >Cow that had a discussion about it a while back.

> >

> >Ghislaine

>

> Cool! That was a 40 year old memory. :-) Another thing done then was

> worming

> with plug tobacco. Dad someone knew the right amount for each breed to

> stick

> down its throat to do the job.

>

> Wanita

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Tim! Good to see you back here. Do you know if the cows just pick

hardware up while feeding or they're attracted to the shine?

Correction on the tobacco worming. Breed didn't determine amount. Species of

livestock and size did.

Wanita

At 07:56 AM 2/20/03 +0000, you wrote:

>Cows and " Hardware "

>

>Just a note cows don't eat metal for lack of minerals, they eat dirt for

>that.

>Cows swallow everything whole and then regurgitate it and chew it after

>it has been in the first stomach a while.

>That's how cows get metal known as " hardware " and so the magnets attract

>the metal to the sides of the magnets instead of the stomach walls which

>pokes holes in them.

>I knew a farmer who remodeled the interior of his barn and forgot to

>tell the carpenters to clean up after they were done including sweeping

>with a big magnet for nails and two weeks later had 3 dead cows.

>Wanita Sears wrote:

>

>>  At 09:14 PM 2/19/03 +0000, you wrote:

>> >

>> >> Don't know about chain eating but it used to be a common practice

>> >for beef and

>> >> dairy farmers to give them a magnet which they'd willingly eat.

>> >This was to

>> >> attract any metal like nails they would eat so they wouldn't get

>> >perforated

>> >> intestines. When Dad had the slaughterhouse prior to the piggery

>> >there he'd

>> >> shown me quite a few magnets out of bovine stomachs with various

>> >hardware

>> >> attached. Maybe mineral licks have broke this metal craving.

>> >>

>> >> Wanita

>> >

>> >

>> >Actually this is still done.  There is a group called Homestead

>>

>> >Cow that had a discussion about it a while back.

>> >

>> >Ghislaine

>>

>> Cool! That was a 40 year old memory. :-) Another thing done then was

>> worming

>> with plug tobacco. Dad someone knew the right amount for each breed to

>> stick

>> down its throat to do the job.

>>

>> Wanita