Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Names give cows a lotta bottle

A cow with a name produces more milk than one without, researchers at Newcastle University have found. Drs Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson have shown that by giving a cow a name and treating her as an individual, farmers can increase their annual milk yield by almost 500 pints. The study, published online today in the academic journal Anthrozoos, observed that on farms where each cow was called by her name the overall milk yield was higher than on farms where the cattle were herded as a group........

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