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Herd the moos? Latvia's symbolic blue cow back from the brink
AFP via msn ^ | 04 January 2022 | uncredited AFP via MSN

Posted on 01/05/2022 1:30:24 AM PST by blueplum

nce a rarity, cows with light blue or dark ultramarine hides may again be glimpsed grazing on the Latvian countryside among the regular brown, black or white spotted cattle.

The unique and hardy breed, driven to near extinction during the Soviet era, has made a comeback over the last few decades as an unlikely symbol of Latvian national identity....

In 2000 there were only 18 blue cows in Latvia, but today they number around 1,500 -- thoroughbreds as well as hybrids.

Originally found only on the Baltic coast in the Kurzeme region...

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Chit/Chat; History; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: agriculture; ancientbreeds; beef; bluebeef; bluebulls; bluecow; bovinehistory; bovineleukosis; cattle; coast; disease; diseaseresistance; extinction; heritagebreeds; kine; latvia; pigment; roughforage; soviets; ussr
fascinating. Maybe Paul Bunyon's blue ox was real?
1 posted on 01/05/2022 1:30:24 AM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

I see where the idea for this came from.

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Brahmin_plushie


2 posted on 01/05/2022 2:02:35 AM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: blueplum

This must be where blue cheese comes from.

(The cows look gray to me.)


3 posted on 01/05/2022 2:46:53 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Democrats CANNOT win without violence and/or cheating)
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To: blueplum

I’m seeing more women with blue hair too.


4 posted on 01/05/2022 4:16:33 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

It might be the circles I run in.


5 posted on 01/05/2022 4:17:13 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: blueplum

Well it won’t be long for a rich lib/Yankee will have one of these running with their Longhorn herd on their Texas dude ranch.

Along with a couple grass belly horses and donkeys which breed like rabbits and there is no market for.

They are a trip,lib/Yankees. I even met one who was trying to breed mules using a mule Jenny and jack. I just walked off. Did not have the heart to bust his bubble


6 posted on 01/05/2022 4:44:40 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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To: Baldwin77

I like brown cows because they give chocolate mmilk.


7 posted on 01/05/2022 5:21:51 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: blueplum

I’ve heard of the Norwegian Blue but they’re always pining for the Fjords.


8 posted on 01/05/2022 6:24:57 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: blueplum

Blue Moooooooooon.....


9 posted on 01/05/2022 6:25:27 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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