Fat Tony@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agoTIL cows can suffer from fatal bloated stomachs. A way of treating it is by puncture and burning the released methane gas (to determine how much is remaining).lemmy.worldvideomessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1384arrow-down14
arrow-up1380arrow-down1videoTIL cows can suffer from fatal bloated stomachs. A way of treating it is by puncture and burning the released methane gas (to determine how much is remaining).lemmy.worldFat Tony@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agomessage-square93fedilink
minus-squarePyr@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days agoCorn is a grass, but you are typically feeding them the grain of the grass rather than the stalks and leaves which they should be eating. Normally grass grains aren’t the majority diet of cows, it’s the leaves.
minus-squareSuccessful_Try543@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 days agoAfaIk, the entire plant is chopped, fermented and fed to cattle. Yet, compared to grass, corn has a higher content on easily digestable carbohydrates.
Corn is a grass, but you are typically feeding them the grain of the grass rather than the stalks and leaves which they should be eating.
Normally grass grains aren’t the majority diet of cows, it’s the leaves.
AfaIk, the entire plant is chopped, fermented and fed to cattle. Yet, compared to grass, corn has a higher content on easily digestable carbohydrates.