There stood a cow
Tuesday 15 October 2013
Remoovals
There Stood a Cow has mooved to http://therestoodacow.wordpress.com due to technical difficulties here which I have been unable to resolve.
Sunday 13 October 2013
Cows in Butter
The Iowa State Fair (held in August) has a cow sculptured out of butter!
The Butter Cow starts with a wood, metal, wire and steel mesh frame and about 600 lbs. of low moisture, pure cream Iowa butter. Once inside the 40-degree cooler, layers of butter are applied until a life-size butter cow emerges - measuring about 5-1/2-ft high and 8-ft long.
While a real dairy cow weighs more than 1,000 pounds, a 600-lb. butter cow would butter 19,200 slices of toast and take an average person two lifetimes to consume. Much of the butter is recycled and reused for up to 10 years.
The Butter Cow starts with a wood, metal, wire and steel mesh frame and about 600 lbs. of low moisture, pure cream Iowa butter. Once inside the 40-degree cooler, layers of butter are applied until a life-size butter cow emerges - measuring about 5-1/2-ft high and 8-ft long.
While a real dairy cow weighs more than 1,000 pounds, a 600-lb. butter cow would butter 19,200 slices of toast and take an average person two lifetimes to consume. Much of the butter is recycled and reused for up to 10 years.
Friday 11 October 2013
Udderly Hands On - cows as a visitor attraction
Don't know what my grandmother would've made of it as she worked as a dairy maid but I think it's good idea that cows can be seen as visitor attractions.
Park Hall Countryside Experience, near Oswestry in England allow visitors to have a go at hand milking a cow. They also have a high-tech milking parlour which demonstrates new farming practices and shows the origins of the milk which most of us see only on the supermarket shelf.
And Stockley Farm Park, Arley, Northwich, Cheshire allow visitors to watch the cows being milked from the viewing gallery every afternoon from 3.30pm onwards.
Farmland Fun in Paradise, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania. offer to let visitors milk a cow, feed a calf, collect eggs, take a guided tour of the farm
and interact with rabbits, goats, chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep;
learn how cows turn feed into milk, why their cows wear earrings, and tour their large barn.
Tuesday 8 October 2013
It's Party Time in Bavaria!
Bavarian villagers are celebrating the return of their cows from the mountains with folk dancing and other customs including dressing the lead cow with a garland of flowers, if all the animals survived the summer.
The cattle herders have to float the stock across the Koenigsee Lake because it is the only way to bring the cattle home to their owners a tradition known in German as Viehscheid.
From time immemorial, at about the middle of June every year as soon as the Allgäu Alpine pastures are snow free, the young cattle have been driven up to the mountain meadows.
The tradition of driving cattle up to the mountain pastures is carried out for several very good reasons. Firstly, there are just not enough meadows down in the valley to provide for all the cattle especially as hay also has to be harvested for the long winter months to come. But that’s not the only reason. Spending the summer months higher up the mountains makes the animals more hardy as well as the fact that the sweet grass and mountain herbs taste good and are very healthy. No wonder that the Allgäu milk products are renowned for their quality.
You can head over to http://www.allgaeu-viehscheid.de/ where you can buy a Kuh Kalendar
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Monday 7 October 2013
A-Z Cow breeds.- Aberdeen Angus
Aberdeen Angus - Flora
The earliest families trace back to the middle of the eighteenth century but it was much later that the Herd Book (1862) and the Society (1879) were founded. The breed’s establishment was entirely due to the efforts of three very progressive lairds and farmers of that time.
Photo courtesy of Glympton Aberdeen angus, www.glymptonaberdeenangus.co.uk |
Typical Angus cows weigh between 1,000 and 1,300 pounds at maturity.
Where to spot them
http://aberdeen-angus.co.uk/breeders-links/ |
Photo courtesy of Glympton Aberdeen angus, www.glymptonaberdeenangus.co.uk |
Photo courtesy of Glympton Aberdeen angus, www.glymptonaberdeenangus.co.uk |
Photo courtesy of Glympton Aberdeen angus, www.glymptonaberdeenangus.co.uk |
Sunday 6 October 2013
Advertising cows
I Like the way you Moo - Coleman's Gravy dancing bull
Butter made by cows since 1886 and some time before
British Beef
Cow & Gate are makers of baby milk formula and they have a free soft toy cow (see picture below) to give away to all members (UK) click here
Saturday 5 October 2013
What's your beef?
cuts of beef
Sirloin comes from the centre of the back, which has the most tender meat that doesn’t need much cooking so it makes the perfect steak.
Traditional Rump steak
The rump is a very lean cut of meat which makes it ideal for steaks and kebabs.
Traditional Rib-eye steak
This steak is very popular and has lots of flavour. Plus, it needs very little preparation, so it can be ready to eat in no time at all.
Traditional Fillet steak
The less work a muscle does, the more tender it'll be. Fillet steak is the most highly prized cut of beef taken from a strip of meat called the tenderloin.
Burgers, mince and meatballs
We use our Traditional British beef from the clod, neck and shin as it's full of flavour.
Topside and Silverside
Our topside joints come from the top of the leg. They're lean, boneless cuts of meat and make great roasting joints. Or for frying there are sandwich steaks from the back of the leg.
Thanks to Morrisons for this information
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