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Thursday, October 7, 2021
A WWII era farmer painting strips on her cow to increase visibility during blackout conditions. In case the cow wandered into the road.
Had a friend when we lived in the Catskill Mts who would use high visibility tape to mark his horse during deer season. Made the local gossip rag almost every year.
Judging by the bucket instead of a paint can; I would say whitewash. A water mixture of calcium carbonate. non toxic. If it was lead based paint, it would probably cause the cow to die.
I seem to remember a story when I was living in Maine about a dairy farmer with Jersey cows that was always losing at least one every hunting season to deer / moose hunters, usually drunk ones. He got so cheesed off he finally got some surplus pink paint and just painted a huge stripe, or 'X', or something, on either side just to save the cows. And it seemed to work.
Doc Westervelt, a local vet, used to paint I AM A COW on his cows in late November, his German Shepherd wore a child's Blaze Orange hunting vest, and he made his cat a vest out of a blaze orange sock.
We need some of that around here. A lot of open range country, and even when their fields are fenced, the idiot cattle end up on the roads. The ranchers around here favor Black Angus, and those coal black bastards are invisible at night. We don't drive at night if we have a choice about it.
"Stripes" not "strips". Makes a difference.
ReplyDeleteSomebody should strip her garments off and paint stripes all over her plump ass cakes. Then she'll have the same look on her face as the cow.
DeleteWearing skirts and heels?? Looks like a publicity ad
ReplyDeleteHad a friend when we lived in the Catskill Mts who would use high visibility tape to mark his horse during deer season. Made the local gossip rag almost every year.
ReplyDeleteYeah but he had a 90% chance the horse made it alive into next spring!
DeleteJudging by the bucket instead of a paint can; I would say whitewash. A water mixture of calcium carbonate.
ReplyDeletenon toxic. If it was lead based paint, it would probably cause the cow to die.
The cow identifies as a zebra.
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember a story when I was living in Maine about a dairy farmer with Jersey cows that was always losing at least one every hunting season to deer / moose hunters, usually drunk ones. He got so cheesed off he finally got some surplus pink paint and just painted a huge stripe, or 'X', or something, on either side just to save the cows. And it seemed to work.
ReplyDeleteDoc Westervelt, a local vet, used to paint I AM A COW on his cows in late November, his German Shepherd wore a child's Blaze Orange hunting vest, and he made his cat a vest out of a blaze orange sock.
DeleteD-Day invasion stripes.
ReplyDeleteWe need some of that around here. A lot of open range country, and even when their fields are fenced, the idiot cattle end up on the roads. The ranchers around here favor Black Angus, and those coal black bastards are invisible at night. We don't drive at night if we have a choice about it.
ReplyDeleteReflective collars?
DeleteReflective paint on their horns would work too.
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