Cows are Ladies too!

If your job is fighting fires you must have respect for those flames to be able to do your job well. If you work in the customer service industry you must have respect for the customers you serve or they probably won’t come back. If you work in a green house you must have respect for the dirt you grow things in so as to get the best yield. In the same way if you work in the cattle industry you must have respect for cattle.

I am always shocked when people who do not work with cattle very often make comments like “well cows are stupid you just need to build up a fence and push them in the right direction.” Raising cattle requires a lot more than that, but most importantly a respect for the animals that you are working with. Around our place cattle are treated as ‘fine ladies’ as my dad likes to say. Even when it is freezing outside we have to make sure that there needs are taken care of before ours. We make sure that they have a warm dry bed to crawl into before we crawl into ours and that they get their breakfast before we come back inside for ours.

The idea that cows can be just pushed and yelled at until they go where you want them to is also ridiculous. Even if you take everything else out of the question it makes no economic sense to mistreat cattle. If a Cow goes through the auction ring that is sick, injured, underfed, or wild and crazy she  will bring less money. To put it simply happy cows are profitable cows. To insure maximum profit good cattle managers have immense respect for their cattle. They ensure all of the animals needs are met, and that the animals are treated properly and with respect.

Cows are in fact ‘ladies’ they are surprisingly beautiful, graceful , caring, and protective towards their calves (babies) Since they show all these ladylike characteristics it makes sense that they are treated like ladies.