What is your favorite cow?

we had a bunch of Highland cattle once (till about 2001) They were unpredictable with those horns and you couldnt poll them. So we sold most and butchered some for the family. Theyre a little tough. I think our Dexters have been so named as to have something in common with the shoe brand and not the area of their origin.


Gus, I can hardly contain my excitement. When will this race be over? cows need milkin

Belted Galloway, they're very distinctive.

I got a pair of horns so I can make a Viking helmet, but I haven't made it yet. I've got to drill out the horns and glue steel bolts in.

mctag : won't it hurt when you attach those steelbolts to your skull ? i know you come from a hardy breed (any viking blood in your veins ?), but even you might find it just alittle painful. here is to a good viking ! hbg

Lean, mean... Holstein.

I'm not sure which cow, the one with the white triabgle on her head, or the one with the white heart. The heart cow seemed cuter, but it didn't come out of it's little shed, so I'm not sure.

Yeah! A cow forum!
Yeah! A cow forum!

Stolen directly from the internet:

A fitting illustration

Wahahahahah

I'm open to suggestions as to how best to fix cowhorn to a plastic "hard-hat" safety helmet. I was going to drill out the horns and glue in a round-head steel bolt on the inside of the helmet. Then I can apply a fake surface to the helmet to disguise its origins and fix some blond hair around. Whaddya think?

Belted Galloway:

http://www.beltie.org/
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/beltedgalloways/

Measure and set the locations of the horns on the helmet. Make a set of wooden forms over which the horns can slip. Id make them by band sawing the forms and then finish their shape with a drawknife. Fix the horn forms onto the helmet by bolting them from the inside. Gorilla glue the horns onto the wooden forms . (gorilla glue will swell and fill in any small gaps between the forms and the horns).
Im assuming that your horns are real, so they should be somewhat hollow.
If they are made of a resin cast material, more the better. You can drill the helmet to recieve a series of self tapping screws that would be drilled into the rein. I would still use gorilla glue to strengthen the screw posts. Just be careful of Gorilla glue. As it swells itll get loose if your not careful. I had a set on my motorcycle helmet years ago, they were brass though

They are real horns all righty. I was going to use the all-purpose glue we have here called Araldite- I've never heard of Gorilla Glue. And, add a big flat washer for extra strength as well as the bolt head on the inside of the helmet- there is a space where it would fit, it won't make dents in my skull.

If it all works as planned, and thanks for your suggestions btw, I'll take a photo of the finished article and post it here.

Anyway back to the cattle- what did you think of the belties? A hardy breed from my own country.

Belties are truly an unusual breed. We have them here in South Australia but their numbers are small and they are mainly in the Adelaide Hills where it's cooler and wetter. From memory (I didn't have a lot to do with them when I worked in the livestock area, I think they're too difficult to steal) they are slightly smaller in frame than many other beasts. But that distinctive colouring means you can identify them from way over the other paddocks.

It has to be the Charollais for me......it is the sumo wrestler of the Beauvine world.

On our recent trip to New Hampshire, we have encountered this bovine:



She was a little self-aware, because of her teeth I presume, but friendly nonetheless. She took liking in littlek:

I, on the other hand was befriended by a little stubborn goat:



We also talked to some horses. This one had most thoughts to share. We exchanged opinions on the quality of the hay:



Horses worked hard that day. Littlek tried to alleviate their hardship. But she was too little:

why is lilk stealing that Amish buggy. Were you guys all hammered?

well, she's half irish, half italian. you know how they are...
we were not hammered..yet.

That goat didn't like you. He thought you had blueberry jam on your shoe.

nah, truth be told, his horn (the one on his head) was coming out, and i was a perfect scratching post.

Oh, a horny goat.

Brama...Pronounced here as... BRAM MER, not BRA MA

Beautiful!!