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Here are some cows seeing grass after 6 months indoors. This is so cute. 18/10 for all cows.

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For those wondering why the cows have been indoors.

Many dairy cattle are housed during the winter period, when grass is not growing.
Some herds may be housed all year-round. The RSPCA does not support systems housing dairy cattle all year round
Two types of housing system are generally used:

 

• Loose housing – where cattle can freely move around inside a building, which is at least partly bedded to give a lying area.

 



• Cubicle housing – where the building has lots of separate
  ‘cubicles’ (at least one per cow), divided by barriers, and cows can
  freely enter, lie-down in, and leave them.

On some farms cattle may also be provided with additional ‘loafing’ areas for exercise.

So basically the cows are indoors because there’s no pasture for them during the winter

Ah cool, I was wondering if the season was the reason why the cows are inside lol.

HAPPY COWS

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(In case you were wondering, cows can manage snowy winters just fine, so long as they’ve got somewhere they CAN take shelter when they want it.  It’s just that there’s not much for them to eat out there.)

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