Cow Magnets
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Cow Magnets
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#2This makes me sad.
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#3You think that's weird? Wait until you read about cannulated cows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannulated_cow
There are a bunch of these grazing around my hometown university's ag department.
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#4This makes me sad.
Why? It seems to prevent a really bad condition.
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#5Rather than putting magnets in every cow why not clean the fields of injury causing debris?
http://extension.missouri.edu/p/G7700
> From 55 to 75 percent of the cattle slaughtered in the eastern United States have been found to have hardware in the reticulum. However, no damage or perforations of the reticulum was evident.
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> The magnet simply keeps foreign metallic objects adhered together in a ball, reducing the chances of penetrating the reticulum. Of course, the best preventive measure is keeping feed bunks, pastures, cow lots, etc., free of potentially hazardous objects.
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#6Rather than putting magnets in every cow why not clean the fields of injury causing debris? http://extension.missouri.edu/p/G7700 > From 55 to 75 percent of the cattle slaughtered in the eastern United States have been found to have hardware in the reticulum. However, no damage or perforations of the reticulum was evident. [...] > The magnet simply keeps foreign metallic objects adhered together in a ball, reducing t…
Seems easier to put a magnet in every cow than to comb every pasture, several times a year.
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#7One marwel super-hero has similar magnets inside him. Cowmen or something.
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#8You think that's weird? Wait until you read about cannulated cows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannulated_cow There are a bunch of these grazing around my hometown university's ag department.
In the 19th Centrury, everal experiments on human digestion were conducted on someone with a gunshot wound that left a fistula providing access to the stomach, somewhat like those cannula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beaumont#Experiments_w...
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#9Rather than putting magnets in every cow why not clean the fields of injury causing debris? http://extension.missouri.edu/p/G7700 > From 55 to 75 percent of the cattle slaughtered in the eastern United States have been found to have hardware in the reticulum. However, no damage or perforations of the reticulum was evident. [...] > The magnet simply keeps foreign metallic objects adhered together in a ball, reducing t…
Seems easier to put a magnet in every cow than to comb every pasture, several times a year.
Seems easier, sure - but one modestly-robust drone, maybe a sort of lawnmower with caterpillar tracks, could happily roam around the pasture permanently, picking up ferrous debris and taking it back to a drop-off point for recycling.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems easier to put a magnet in every cow than to comb every pasture, several times a year.
Seems easier, sure - but one modestly-robust drone, maybe a sort of lawnmower with caterpillar tracks, could happily roam around the pasture permanently, picking up ferrous debris and taking it back to a drop-off point for recycling.
Seems was a polite way of saying is.
Even with a modestly-robust drone, there will be:
- breakdowns
- fuel costs (electrical or otherwise)
- the need to run the task repeatedly, dealing with varying terrain and grazing cattle
I'm as big a fan of drones and automation as the next guy, but it really is much simpler to just stick a magnet in every cow.