Monday, October 10, 2011

A New Vocabulary

Cow - female
Bull - male
Jersey - smaller dairy cow with higher-fat, higher-protein milk than typical
Brahma - large chickens that lay brown eggs and tend to take care of offspring - also cold hearty and unlikely to get carried off by other birds of prey (about the size of my dear Roscoe!)
Forage - pasture where cows (etc) graze on not-just-grass
Silage - slightly fermented mixture of grains and hay that is more readily digested
Short Ton = 2,000 lbs
Bushel = about 60 lbs

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