Autumn Beef - 61 project

Placid, friendly, curious: they usually come up to the fence to check you out when you are trying to photograph them. Perhaps they are just looking to see if you have food, but cows are normally inquisitive.  Once you get to know them, bovines, like any other animal, have individual personalities. Yes there markings are different, but some are friendlier than others, some more likely to take off at the slightest movement and some are always looking to be scratched or petted.

These particular cows are beef cows and belong to our friend Pedro.  I love to go and photo his menagerie when I can, altho this scene came from one of his photos.

Trivia for Today: Did you know that cows have 4 stomachs?

The largest, the rumen, is like a big fermentation vat. All the grass lands in there when they are grazing. Later when they lie down and relax, they bring up the big pieces and chew their cud to break down the long fibers so that it's more easily digested by the rumen microbes. (Sorry for that bit of Dairy Science minutiae; I can’t help myself).