getting a cow

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Hi everyone,

Does anyone on this list have a cow? Sally recommends in NT getting a cow if

you live in the country. I would love to have a cow, though I would want two

so she had someone to hang out with. I love cows, plus it would be useful

for the milk :-P

My question is, I have no idea how to go about finding out how to raise

animals. Where do you get cows? How do you learn how to take care of them?

etc, etc. I don't have a place of my own yet, but in the next year or two I

hope to, and to have enough land to pasture a cow.

Oh, there's the second question: how much land does it take to pasture a cow?

I imagine it's quite a bit, but then again, cows don't eat the grass all the

way down, so it seems to grow back readily. While I can't get a cow yet, it

would be useful to know how much acreage I would need, to plan ahead as far

as what kind of place I should look for and how long it will take me to save

up money.

People say to get chickens first cause their the easiest, and Ill probably

get some but I really want a cow :-P I want to get her as a calf and let her

grow up cause calves are really cute.

Chris

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heart which burns with love for every creature: for human beings, birds, and

animals, for serpents and for demons. The thought of them and the sight of

them make the tears of the saint flow. And this immense and intense

compassion, which flows from the heart of the saints, makes them unable to

bear the sight of the smallest, most insignificant wound in any creature.

Thus they pray ceaselessly, with tears, even for animals, for enemies of the

truth, and for those who do them wrong. "

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