Remoovals

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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.

What's your beef?

cuts of beef

Traditional Sirloin steak
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

Bear Necessities

My apologies for the huge gap (some weeks) in posting but I have taken the bull by horns and been decorating!

Now Alice (below) would tell you that is prudent to make sure you have bare necessities when out hunting.  Guns? check! Bullets? check!  Spectacles ?  hmm ...

Alice - (c) 2013 Yellow Dexter Ltd

Maybe this group of Swedish hunters, should've gone to Specsavers.

A team of Swedish hunters who spent the night gripped by fear after seeing shadows they thought were a gang of menacing bears, woke to find nothing more than three runaway Norwegian cows. 

The hunters radioed for help shortly after they were dropped off by helicopter at dusk in the mountainous woods of Norbotten, claiming to be under threat from some of the roughly 900 brown known to lurk in the region. 

But as the evening light was dwindling fast, the helicopter pilot explained he wouldn't be able to fly back to rescue the hunters until the next day.

"I was on another assignment and we don't fly in the dark so they had to sit in a little shelter. It's like a little box," pilot Johan Nordlund told the paper.

So the hunters spent the night cowering in their shelter, waiting for the bears to strike. 

But when they peered out from their shelter in the morning, they found themselves face to face, not with a pack of ravenous bears, but with three harmless cows that had apparently lost their way.

"I asked, 'Are you guys drunk or what?'" Nordlund, the helicopter pilot, told Aftonbladet, adding that he thought the hunters were joking when they radioed back to call off the rescue operation.

As the nearest Swedish cattle farm is more than 100 kilometres away, it's likely the wayward cows hail from Norway, according to the paper.

Nordlund, who has seen the bovines on flights in the area in the ensuing days, last saw the visiting cows heading into a nearby national park.

"Maybe that's what they came over to see," he quipped. 

He warned that the cows' owner must be found and the livestock returned before winter's chill takes hold in the region.

"They'll die when winter comes," he told Aftonbladet.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Cows - "We have the power"

Jemima - (c) Yellow Dexter Ltd 2013

Jemima states "It's udder nonsense" after reports that Scottish Power are claiming that cows were responsible for power cuts in Angelsey, Wales.

Homes in Llanddona have been suffering intermittent problems affecting supply for a few seconds at a time.

Councillor Carwyn Jones said the long-running cuts were enough to knock out computers and other equipment.

ScottishPower said a broken support for an electricity pole had now been repaired.

"For years now the electricity has been going off for a few seconds then coming back on," said Mr Jones, county councillor for Seiriol ward, which includes Llanddona.

"I contacted ScottishPower and they got back to me saying they thought it was cows scratching against equipment, leading to a temporary cut as the equipment is moved.

"They said they were going to install fencing around the poles to try and sort it out, but as far as I know that has not happened yet."

Napoleon is udderly lost without his Josephine

Napoleon - (c) Yellow Dexter Ltd 2013

Napoleon looks udderly lost without his Josephine, despite his other maidens nearby.  Perhaps she has took a wrong turn for milking and ended up on a council housing estate in Stockport.

'I got up and went to the window and they were in next door's front garden, walking and mooing. The neighbours were out in their dressing gowns, taking pictures, and a taxi driver was trying to herd them up.'

The nurse, who works at Stockport's Stepping Hill Hospital, added: 'I usually work night shifts but this was my one night off and I got woken up by a herd of cows.'

Around 40 cows, who are believed to have escaped from their field, were later safely returned to their home at Bongs Farm, owned by Willam Massey, 51. 

more here

Panda-monium

Amanda (the panda) - (c) Yellow Dexter 2013

Edinburgh Zoo have their panties in a twist over the possibility of panda, Tian Tian being pregnant.  Pandas - along with other mammals including red deer and badgers - employ a technique called delayed implantation.

This means that the period between the moment of insemination and the moment of birth can be anything between 85 and 185 days.

Not so for the panda wannabe cow I snapped (above) the gestation period is about that of 9 months or 285 days.  This cute momma will have a baby weighing from around 70 to 100 lbs, whilst a new born panda weighs only 150 grams.

Amanda (above) can't see what the fuss is about.

Davina (c) Yellow Dexter Ltd

Out and about today and we met Davina who was sheltering out of the sun, under a large tree.   She wasn't in the mood for a photo shoot but I think, after we left, she got out her pom poms and did a ra-ra dance.

Hi

Hi and welcome to my new blog.  As you may be able to tell I am crazy about cows !

Donald (c) Yellow Dexter Ltd 2013