The fly byes on display here inspire quite a whole lotta amateur stand-up comedians to butt in and lose their shit, as if they’re also sand-up cow mediums.
Yeah you seem them on horses and cows sometimes in warm weather months when flies and gnats get bad. Sometimes the animals are a little unsure about the masks at first, but once they realize they keep the bugs away they take to them pretty easily.
Same reason you’ll sometimes see horses with poncho/blanket looking things on them — to keep biting flies and mosquitoes away
>Same reason you’ll sometimes see horses with poncho/blanket looking things on them — to keep biting flies and mosquitoes away
Omg thanks for answering a question I've always had but never thought to google.
Shoot, I live in a semi-rural area of Texas and plenty of cattle all over the place but never seen one of those, I've seen the size of 'horse flies' and I totally understand the need!
Were you imagining a group of blind vigilante cows roaming the city using their heightened non-sight senses to deliver justice and pummel the bad guys at night, while fighting criminals as attorneys during the day?
Might be fly masks- which basically are like sunglasses for cows. It’s thin enough they can see though it, but keeps flies away and UV rays from eyes.
That or maybe they wanted to chill the cows out, as prey animals are rather reactive to visual stimuli and this reduces that
Accurate. I was at a farm one day and was checking out the cows and one cow pushed his head through an opening for me to pet it, got some scritches in and then the cow licked me. One of the staff saw it and was like “Cows rarely lick people they don’t know, i’ve never seen her lick guests or visitors.” Felt honored.
I got a cow once. We live on a farm and a farmer down the road had twins. One was born with a mess up leg. He asked if I wanted him. I said hell ya
So I call the vet out and they basically out an open piece of pvc pipe on his leg to support and straighten it.
Within like 6 months this guy would follow me around, always nudge me for a pet on the head. Picked pears or apple of our trees. Then right back into his shed he'd go.
He was a good pet honestly.
Was at a friend's farm once and they were trying to catch a sheep from the field. Sheep went into a corner and they had me stand at the choke in case it tried to run out.
Unfortunately, going for the sheep spooked the 700+ lb bull who was also in that corner. He tried to make a rapid exit and I did not have time to move out of his way
So for lack of a better option I just kinda put my hand up like "please stop". The hand movement seemed to make him realize I was there, cause I saw him look at me and he just stopped like "oh, hi there, sorry friend". Then he waddled up to me like a puppy
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I know but with the fly masks and the scratching I don’t think this is as playful as the title implies. They are probably just trying to relieve fly bites not play.
I hate seeing it.
I love dogs and cows, but one as companion and one as a cheeseburger.
I really feel uncomfortable with myself when that line is blurred.
>pretty much why I stopped eating beef/pork/chicken. sadly though the oceans aren't doing so hot either
I went back to eating chickens to save the fish.
I grew up on a dairy farm with Holsteins (the cows pictured here are also Holsteins except these are all bulls/steers).
It was always funny to see heifers let out to pasture for the first time and some mature cows being let out to pasture for the first time in the spring. Running around, frolicking, jumping, sorta kicking mid air.
Idk, the way we kill our food seems the least cruel in all of nature.
The way we have them spend their lives. That's more worthy of being critical about.
Yep. Grandpa always said they are GIANT, idiot, puppy dogs & that’s why we love them.
He meant “idiot” in an endearing way. He was from WW2 so anything that wasn’t a cuss word was meant to be just silly.
Eating them is the only reason they're not on the brink of extinction. In the entirety of North America, there are about 31,000 wild bison. There are ~92 million cattle and calves in the United States, another 8 million or so in Mexico, and over 3 million in Canada.
So, what's better? A handful of bovines living unmanaged in the wild, to be killed and eaten by wolves and bears? Or a hundred million bovines living in captivity, with access to regular feed, veterinary care, and then being painlessly euthanized after about 4 years and 3 months?
Sure, the wild bison live for an average of 15 years in the wild, but I think there's something to be said for just having *more* living bovines.
It's one thing to argue that animal life is inherently inferior and we shouldn't feel bad for exploiting it, but this argument doesn't make much sense. I wouldn't want to breed people into a miserable existence just because I think a higher population of humans in the world is a good thing, so why would I do it for animals.
>So, what's better?
Extinction is preferable to eternal torture because some sadist wants to "preserve the species" is a zoo.
Actual lives have value, potential future lives don't because they do not exist yet.
And here we get the completely specious argument that living on a farm is torture, which I already disposed of. Abusing animals is bad for business. Keeping them healthy and calm is good for business. What's so hard to understand about this?
To everyone asking about the masks;
They are more commonly seen on [horses](https://www.kentucky-horsewear.com/us-en/kentucky-horsewear/fly-masks/), but the purpose is the same:
>> Fly masks protect your horse’s sensitive areas on the head against insects during the summer. Through our fly masks, your horse will also be protected from UV radiation.
It's almost like they're living sentient beings with emotions like happiness and love. Wow, maybe dogs and cats aren't the only animals we should care for and protect?
My family has a farming background and I work in farm animal protection. You might be surprised by how the “potential to profit” or lack thereof leads to some egregious suffering. For example, it’s too much money to address the health needs of this drowned cow or this pig who has their intestines coming out their rectum. Millions of chickens are killed just by awful transport conditions. It’s money before anything else and animals suffer greatly.
Anyone know why they're blindfolded?
Those are fly screens - they're see-through.
Thank you! Never seen them before.
Neither have the cows.
Best cattle joke I’ve ever herd.
Milk out the nostrils
classic cow laugh
It’s a moo point
Seems like people are steering this conversation.
That's udderly ridiculous.
I'll take, "what happens when you hang a cow upside down" for $200 Alex.
Sorry, Alex is out to pasture. It's Ken now.
He’s just Ken
Udderly delicious!
I was mooved.
An udderly titillating comment! Edit: speellingg
I ruminated
Now you're milking it
The fly byes on display here inspire quite a whole lotta amateur stand-up comedians to butt in and lose their shit, as if they’re also sand-up cow mediums.
It's not the best I've heifer heard
THIS !
I call Bull shit
It was simply bovine!
Yeah you seem them on horses and cows sometimes in warm weather months when flies and gnats get bad. Sometimes the animals are a little unsure about the masks at first, but once they realize they keep the bugs away they take to them pretty easily. Same reason you’ll sometimes see horses with poncho/blanket looking things on them — to keep biting flies and mosquitoes away
>Same reason you’ll sometimes see horses with poncho/blanket looking things on them — to keep biting flies and mosquitoes away Omg thanks for answering a question I've always had but never thought to google.
they have them for horses too
Shoot, I live in a semi-rural area of Texas and plenty of cattle all over the place but never seen one of those, I've seen the size of 'horse flies' and I totally understand the need!
That makes a lot more sense than what I was imagining
Were you imagining a group of blind vigilante cows roaming the city using their heightened non-sight senses to deliver justice and pummel the bad guys at night, while fighting criminals as attorneys during the day?
Dairydevil
Moo knight
[2007 Boston Mooninite panic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic)
I was thinking more ninja turtles and less daredevil
Mootant
Cowabunga dude - Moochaelangelo
Maybe they also stop sand from getting in their eyes? I mean it’s coarse and gets everywhere…
We used to lie out on the sand and let the sun dry us and try to guess the names of the birds singing.
Wow. It makes them look stylish too.
I agree. They are pretty fly.
Learn something new everyday. Now I can go back to bed.. 😉
Need to get me one of them. Been a mild winter. Bugs will be bad soon 😖
Might be fly masks- which basically are like sunglasses for cows. It’s thin enough they can see though it, but keeps flies away and UV rays from eyes. That or maybe they wanted to chill the cows out, as prey animals are rather reactive to visual stimuli and this reduces that
When I worked on the farm the flies would cause eye infections that could get really bad. I wish we had these
Cool cows 😎 🐮
Cowkashi…
Seemed to protect their eyes from the sand just a little bit too. Though their eyelids would do that too, I'm sure.
50 Shades Of Hay?
BDSM = Big Daisy Supplies Milk
I think I've seen that video....
Twice the amount of nipple play.
It's a great moo-vie.
They're Teenage Moo-tant Ninja Bovines
Apple Vision Pro
“My eye! I’m not supposed to get sand in it!!” -Lenny the cow
Teenage Mutant Ninja Cattle, it's a new spinoff
They got their eyes dilated. Those are just cow versions of the goofy glasses they give you. /s
I came to the comments knowing full well that this would be the first comment.
They belong to a gang and don't want to be identified.
*Removes sunglasses* That’s one big pile of sand
Milk... Uh... Finds a way
Those are all males
I understood that reference!
Go you!!
RrrrrrrRA-ha-ha-harrrrrrrr…rrrrah-ha-ha-ha-HA!…ha-harrrr, HA!?-Harrrrr….
So cute! Cows are basically large dogs in terms of some mannerisms
Accurate. I was at a farm one day and was checking out the cows and one cow pushed his head through an opening for me to pet it, got some scritches in and then the cow licked me. One of the staff saw it and was like “Cows rarely lick people they don’t know, i’ve never seen her lick guests or visitors.” Felt honored.
I got a cow once. We live on a farm and a farmer down the road had twins. One was born with a mess up leg. He asked if I wanted him. I said hell ya So I call the vet out and they basically out an open piece of pvc pipe on his leg to support and straighten it. Within like 6 months this guy would follow me around, always nudge me for a pet on the head. Picked pears or apple of our trees. Then right back into his shed he'd go. He was a good pet honestly.
I like reading that. You’re cool
My kids named him goofy. He followed them up our lane when the bus dropped them off.
My mom's farm had an albino bull named Albert that was very similar
How long did he live?
Well 3 years before we uh..made him into steaks
Dang, once you name it you can't eat it, it's like eating uncle Larry lol,
That's why you name them Lunch or Next or Sammich.
Imagine saying this about your dog..
It's fucked up. But it is what it is
so fking evil man, he thought you were family, but you ate him T\_T
That’s farm life.
why make connection with the animals then, the backstabbing feels evil as fuck
Well, now Mr. Moo Moo has a place in his heart figuratively and literally
Cows naturally live for 15-20 years, just sayin.
But the meat is better when they are young
Like humans! 🤤
Yeah, but the cows don't know that.
And?
gross, goes to show how much you loved him
they can be dangerous if you aren't careful
We removed his balls, which helped a lot with the aggression. Still you're right. They can be.
Was at a friend's farm once and they were trying to catch a sheep from the field. Sheep went into a corner and they had me stand at the choke in case it tried to run out. Unfortunately, going for the sheep spooked the 700+ lb bull who was also in that corner. He tried to make a rapid exit and I did not have time to move out of his way So for lack of a better option I just kinda put my hand up like "please stop". The hand movement seemed to make him realize I was there, cause I saw him look at me and he just stopped like "oh, hi there, sorry friend". Then he waddled up to me like a puppy
And then they executed her
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A cow licked you? That means you're married now. Sorry, thems the rules!
Look at those tails wag!
Swatting at flys.
It's still cute that their tails are wagging! Cows can bond and become friends with people. They aren't robots.
I know but with the fly masks and the scratching I don’t think this is as playful as the title implies. They are probably just trying to relieve fly bites not play.
Cows play football! https://youtu.be/Ca_VPwM5h8U?si=nI15JrIAoJ5vmCF3
That’s cow soccer at best
Far from the top but she plays for Manchester Moonited academy
They have fly masks on. Chance are they are being eaten up itching and trying to remove flys not playing.
Whoever owns these cows is a chad then
Nah I think dogs are just small cows
I hate seeing it. I love dogs and cows, but one as companion and one as a cheeseburger. I really feel uncomfortable with myself when that line is blurred.
I stand by my belief that cows are just giant dogs.
The most curious of beasts.
i read this as “the most curious of beefs” 😭😭
Both can be true.
curiously delicious
pretty much why I stopped eating beef/pork/chicken. sadly though the oceans aren't doing so hot either
>pretty much why I stopped eating beef/pork/chicken. sadly though the oceans aren't doing so hot either I went back to eating chickens to save the fish.
Chickens are definitely not dogs xD
I grew up on a dairy farm with Holsteins (the cows pictured here are also Holsteins except these are all bulls/steers). It was always funny to see heifers let out to pasture for the first time and some mature cows being let out to pasture for the first time in the spring. Running around, frolicking, jumping, sorta kicking mid air.
Large edible dogs. I mean I guess dogs are also edible technically... I'ma go eat some spinach
They’re training to be TMNC.
Cowabunga
Leonardo has the high ground
Neil Young wrote a song about this ... https://youtu.be/SNl13t9ZtmA?si=IE3X28YpAnNnrPY8
I'm pretty sure he meant something else with cowgirl in the sand...
Absolutely loving it. Living best cow life.
I like cows
I like turtles
Those girls were having the time of their lives.
And they never felt like this before.
Yes they swear, it's the truth And they owe it all to mooooo...
your headstone will certainly read: Here lies showmeyourmoves28 Who's life was full until they tried to milk a bull ... those girls 😂
They bulls?! lol I didn’t check for cock this am
It's less the presence of one organ as the absence of another.
We’re not doing enough as a species to help cows get scritches
Saddens me how we have so many slaughterhouses with these lovely creatures. Humans can be cruel. And no I'm not a vegan.
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Idk, the way we kill our food seems the least cruel in all of nature. The way we have them spend their lives. That's more worthy of being critical about.
let’s start a 501c3 with the sole mission to get cows their scritches.
I’ve got news for you. The cow scritching business is highly lucrative: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VpjCQD8ynZE
r/HappyCowGifs would love this
Like big dogs haha, maybe we shouldn’t eat them
Yep. Grandpa always said they are GIANT, idiot, puppy dogs & that’s why we love them. He meant “idiot” in an endearing way. He was from WW2 so anything that wasn’t a cuss word was meant to be just silly.
Poor itchy ladies
Friends, not food 💕
🌱
Can they be delicious friends?
No. Eat plants.
They can be two things
What’s with the 2B cow?
They are to protect the cows eyes from flies, they are see through.
Drmon hunter Taurens
how now
Everyone will think this is cute and go "Aww" but then turn around and purchase products made from their bodies.
I mean I can acknowledge that cows can be cute and also they’re tasty… I think a lot of animals are cute.
I hear dogs are tasty as well.
Cows are big dogs that people eat
People shouldn’t eat them though.
They continue eating them so long they don’t have to slaughter them and watch them die.
Too many awful people in here… so much cognitive dissonance. Cows are deserving of life and you should stop forcing their torture and demise.
True most cows will never see the sun or grass in their lives. But that wouldn’t be cute or happy so people ignore it. Animal eaters need to wake up
Cows crave novelty and need just as much enrichment as cats or dogs!
Why do we kill them again?
Steaks and burgers
Eating them is the only reason they're not on the brink of extinction. In the entirety of North America, there are about 31,000 wild bison. There are ~92 million cattle and calves in the United States, another 8 million or so in Mexico, and over 3 million in Canada. So, what's better? A handful of bovines living unmanaged in the wild, to be killed and eaten by wolves and bears? Or a hundred million bovines living in captivity, with access to regular feed, veterinary care, and then being painlessly euthanized after about 4 years and 3 months? Sure, the wild bison live for an average of 15 years in the wild, but I think there's something to be said for just having *more* living bovines.
It's one thing to argue that animal life is inherently inferior and we shouldn't feel bad for exploiting it, but this argument doesn't make much sense. I wouldn't want to breed people into a miserable existence just because I think a higher population of humans in the world is a good thing, so why would I do it for animals.
We do profoundly awful things to those hundreds of millions of bovine in factory farms. More is not better.
>So, what's better? Extinction is preferable to eternal torture because some sadist wants to "preserve the species" is a zoo. Actual lives have value, potential future lives don't because they do not exist yet.
And here we get the completely specious argument that living on a farm is torture, which I already disposed of. Abusing animals is bad for business. Keeping them healthy and calm is good for business. What's so hard to understand about this?
Grass puppies.
You won't foal me. They are clearly horsing around!
Those apple vision pro are getting out of ~~hand~~ hoof
They look so shiny and healthy compared to the cows I'm used to seeing
not an ear tag in sight-so they probably aren't being exploited, which means someone loves and cares for them!
Hey, so what’s up with them all being blindfolded?
Playing hide n seek but they don't know the rules:-p
Stops flies from getting in their eyes, they can see through them
What's with the masks? Am I missing some game of cowball or something?
Keeps flies out of their eyes
To everyone asking about the masks; They are more commonly seen on [horses](https://www.kentucky-horsewear.com/us-en/kentucky-horsewear/fly-masks/), but the purpose is the same: >> Fly masks protect your horse’s sensitive areas on the head against insects during the summer. Through our fly masks, your horse will also be protected from UV radiation.
Instead of sand, [get them, the real deal!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7yDrLCoLwU)
Happy cows = tasty 🥩
Granulated anti-itch pile 🎉 party for Bossie and her pals!
Blinde Kuh
🥰
Those tail wags are so cute
They are not playing... They are trying to get the fly screens off their faces
Is this a cow pinata party or something?
Bet that feels hella good. Like a larger scale of a cat licking your hand.
They’re really goofy.🤪
What’s up with that Bird Box cow?
Heffin hell !
Cows are cute
Someone needs to give them a beach day.
It's almost like they're living sentient beings with emotions like happiness and love. Wow, maybe dogs and cats aren't the only animals we should care for and protect?
And yet later, [humans will do horrible things to these cows][1] (warning disturbing). [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Are we sure they're not just trying to remove the fly nets from their face?
are cows just big tasty dogs?
Yes
idk. my dog does the same thing when he is done wearing his doggles.
Little do they know that it’s seasoning.🧂
Wth they better not be getting sand in my burgers!
i hope there will be sand in every burger you eat
My family has a farming background and I work in farm animal protection. You might be surprised by how the “potential to profit” or lack thereof leads to some egregious suffering. For example, it’s too much money to address the health needs of this drowned cow or this pig who has their intestines coming out their rectum. Millions of chickens are killed just by awful transport conditions. It’s money before anything else and animals suffer greatly.