Chomp Chomp Chomp . TKG Take Ten

Don't eat your dinner while listening to this. There is a whole lot of burping and belly noises not to mention five cows chomping away. Messily. Delightfully. "Thou crusty batch of nature!"

I once heard the cows rumen being described as a big compost heap. All that forage pushed down into the rumen with only the most rudimentary of chewing. Then later the cows all hang about complaining about the weather and chewing their cud, which is basically any big bits that have not been digested well enough, burped back up for a re-chew.

With all this activity and all that metabolic busy-ness, they are warmed from the inside out. Which is why cows are fine outside in cold weather.

But the weather has begun to close in, and I am a push over when it comes to a big cow batting her big black eyes at me, so I invited the cows in last night out of the rain. I had pushed together a mound of old hay and straw to make their bed. Consequently they all set to and ate the bed.

As you would.

They eat with their mouths open too, like rude children, and it is very loud.

If you listen carefully at 3.40 you will hear Wai Wai (pot belly) complaining about Tima (kunekune) taking all the blankets over the other side of the barn.

He is such a curmudgeon of a pig.

Have a lovely evening.

Celi

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