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From: "Ashley Moran" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: Weevils, worms and maggots: the natural consumers of grains


> On Jul 15, 2008, at 2:59 pm, Robert Kesterson wrote:
>
>> the cows won't eat the tall grasses and they wind up poking  themselves 
>> in the eyes trying to get to the short stuff on the ground.
>
> How exactly did these animals survive so long in the history of 
> evolution? :o)
>
> Ashley<<<<<<

Ah,Mother Nature have a way of landing a helping help to those with most 
survival instinct. Grasses can only get so tall,once in full seed,they begin 
to dry out and one good rain storm will flatten them to expose all the lush 
grass growth underneath. In the wild,nature's bounty is tied to 
estrus/birthing/feeding/drying and gaining for winter. Then,humans thought 
they know better and everything is out of cycle hence graining animals to 
perform.
Modern cattle,sheep,goats or any other livestock left to their own devices 
may take few weeks to revert to wild yet the death toll will be rather high 
since most depend on hand feeding during winter months.

Inci Willard