Posted on 09/21/2008 12:23:01 AM PDT by Stoat
Calm ... Graham Vallis
SOUTH WEST NEWS SERVICE
It came after a dairy farmer reported getting six times more milk by mimicking his herd’s sound.
Graham Vallis, 48, does meditation-style mooing for five minutes before milking — and said his cows fall into a relaxed state.
Now the Federation of Organic Milk Groups is urging its 450 members to do the same.
Graham, of Bradninch, Devon, said: “I often take my tea break with my cows, but on one occasion suddenly I became deeply relaxed.
“I realised it was the mooing. I started mooing in time and they crowded round like the Pied Piper.
“Cows are very conscious of their surroundings — if you’re calm, they will be too. This will help them produce more.”
FOMG boss Roger Kerr said it would boost cows’ wellbeing.
A five-minute mooing soundtrack can be heard at www.love-om.com.
Ya jes gotta be careful NOT to make 'em MAD !!!
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of chloroplast, five sheets of high-powered blotter granum, a saltshaker half-full of mesophyll, and a whole galaxy of carbons, fibers, vitamins, proteins... Also, a quart of chlorphyll, a quart of thylakoid, a case of oxygen, a pint of raw carbon dioxide, and two dozen stomates. The only thing that really worried me was the Oxygen. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a cow in the depths of a photosynthesis binge."
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