Cows can’t fart.
They can only burp.
That theory has been proven to be nothing but hot air. 😁
Cows can’t fart.
They can only burp.
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So true. Let me tell you a short story about animal husbandry. I grew up on a small farm and my dad taught me some practical tips about raising cattle. Ruminants can’t fart because of their complicated digestive system. They have a multi-compartmental stomach consisting of four parts. In the spring when the grass and legumes were lush, especially in the early morning hours iwith the dew on the forage cows could overeat and bloat. This was especially bad with alfalfa and clover. The wet forage, once swallowed, could produce so much gas in the first stomach that the cow could become distended and go down if the animal could not burp up the gas on its own accord. You had to keep an eye on your animals if you turned them out on fresh spring forage. This situation could actually kill the animal and measures had to be taken quickly to assist a distressed animal to help it expel the gas. We used to take a broomstick sized pole and rope it across the mouth like a bit and over the head to cause the animal to chew on the pole, which then helped the animal expel the trapped gas. In extreme cases, you had to take emergency measures and puncher the stomach wall with a knife to relieve the gas to permit the downed animal to breath.