Changing the diet of an ungulate suddenly is BadThing(tm). If you've never dealt with colic before... bring a lunch or two. You might lose one or two.
Wanna do something nice? handful of oats or sweet feed at the bottom of the bag, and figure on squirts for a day or two. Don't approach from aft of abeam.
The cow figured it out. Just leave things alone and keep them the same. I'm sure she'll be happy with standard rats.
Cooks know stuff like that.
/johnny
You just triggered a wonderful memory.
When I was a kid, I was always bullied by this one jerk who liked to pick on anyone and everyone. One school trip to the countryside, el-jerko thought it would be funny to sneak up on a couple of cows and scare the crap out of them.
Boy howdy did he!
Imagine a brown fire hose... caught him full in the chest. I don’t think I have every laughed harder about anything since.
He had to walk for about a half mile or more to somplace that had a garden hose and then had to go back to the school with a towel wrapped around his butt.