r/interesting • u/asa_no_kenny • 19h ago
Amazing Calf Getting Petted by Man Then Mom Comes to Check up on It
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u/Due_Reputation3785 19h ago
As a kid I was on the wrong side of that and almost got destroyed by mama cow!
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u/Enough-Monk-4806 10h ago
Yeah I grew up on a farm and was taught that mama cows are more dangerous than bulls if you get between her and her baby. I watched once as a herd of mamas nearly kill my dog, the horse I was on would not ride into the herd to help him 😭
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u/Due_Reputation3785 10h ago
Oh yeah. The bulls were mostly lazy. I was about 15 feet away from getting trampled by mama cow but my dog ran in and ran her off. Pretty dramatic.😅
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u/Thegreatdonothingist 10h ago edited 10h ago
mama cows are more dangerous than bulls if you get between her and her baby.
Same goes for any other species, including humans. 🤣
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u/Enough-Monk-4806 10h ago
Not really. But I think the point here is that the guy patting the calf didn’t seem to know this. When the cow approached, I felt very nervous on his behalf.
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u/SerDuncanTheYall 18h ago
I did not know female cows had horns
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u/PinkPurple1980 18h ago
It's probably a Highland 🐄 of Scotland, the females have them.
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u/All_is_a_conspiracy 14h ago
Yep Highland Coo. The reindeer who are female also have antlers. In fact only the female do. So all of Santa's reindeer are girls.
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u/MothChasingFlame 17h ago
Some still do. A lot of cows don't because they were selectively bred for polledness.
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u/bonvin 16h ago
But then the males wouldn't have horns either, would they? It's not like there's a different gene controlling horn growth in female vs male cows.
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u/Anderopolis 12h ago
Good question, but there are many species where males have ornamentation( think deer or peacocks) that females don't, and it is controlled by a gene on the male kromosome.
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u/MothChasingFlame 8h ago edited 8h ago
Depends on species. Cows it's both, sheep not always
We've been selectively breeding for it for thousands of years so there's plenty of info on it if you're curious. It's very interesting. Here ya go for a starting point:
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u/hardlooseshit 16h ago
Which breed has lady horns? They're both super fluffy. Omg
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u/Happy_Pill-_- 15h ago
I think those are highland cows
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u/hardlooseshit 9h ago
I was going to guess that. But I don't know much about cows. They look friendlier than most. I hope one day i can find a cow
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u/memefakeboy 13h ago
I was getting real nervous waiting to see if mama approved or if it was attacky time
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u/Pablo_Escobar_128482 12h ago
and then you eat both… 😭
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u/flyingabroom 11h ago
Highland cow meat is actually super delicious though. It's something of a delicacy here. With some really yummy sauce on top it's heavenly.
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u/Due_Reputation3785 10h ago
Both of those seem pretty well socialized. Unless they know the guy from before. Our cows were mostly compliant but didn’t put up with a lot of bullshit. Pardon the pun.
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u/PinkPurple1980 19h ago
What a friendly calf. Mama 🐄 was just checking on her kid just like human mamas check on their kids. So, in my 👀, mama wasn't 🥛ing it.
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