Quotes About Livestock

I've got two pigs, which doesn't constitute a farm. I just keep them in a field. They are very pleasant.

I grew up in a neighborhood that was surrounded by farms. There was a horse farm behind me and dairy farms on either side.

We have a big garden; there's a swimming pool, and we keep chickens. I love them. I love getting up in the morning and collecting the eggs.

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.

We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise.

Agriculture involves crop husbandry, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Your income will go up only if you look at the system, and not from one crop alone.

Historically, kale has been a more popular food for livestock than for people, though for both it is notably nutritious

THE COWS DON'T LOOK UP

You might assume that livestock with cancer or obvious infection would be rejected for all consumption. Not so. The part considered diseased (such as the abscess or tumor) is cut out, but the rest of the sick animal goes right on into human food. Guess where the abscess or tumor goes? Into pet food.

supply had been cut off and livestock were dying of thirst.

As historian Gary Ferguson writes, "while livestock may be the kindling, the real fuel for the burn is that the federal government is behind the project. . . . Westerners couldn't buy a more perfect evil if they rode straight to hell with a saddlebag full of cash." Or, as one stockman said in 1989, "It's not so much the wolves we're afraid of, it's the wolf managers.

She is one of this new breed of cross-trained disease specialists I've mentioned, veterinarian-ecologists who recognize the intimate connectedness of human health, wildlife health, livestock health, and the habitats we all share. For

Is that right A cattle baron It sounds strange.

Avec le Néolithique, les hommes ne sont plus seulement prédateurs, ils deviennent producteurs. Ce n'est plus la carrying capacity de l'environnement qui limite leur nombre, mais leur capacité à produire, capacité qui évolue rapidement. Agriculture et élevage entraînent une expansion démographique spectaculaire.

Can you milk 'em? If you can't milk 'em, they're pets!

Farmers have been extremely conservative. Throughout the world there are 148 species of large animals and yet only fourteen of these have been domesticated as farm animals, grown for meat, milk or wool, or all three, or used to supply muscle-power to pull carts, ploughs or carry people.

If you're going to wear a cowboy hat, you're going to have to go all the way. You should have livestock around you, settle all of your disputes with a pistol, and ride a horse absolutely everywhere.

I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food and weeds, and they're easy to look after - I throw some grain at them in the morning, take the eggs and that's it. I love the sound of clucking.

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

I grew up cleaning stalls and milking cows.

Cows and other livestock account for roughly one-sixth of all greenhouse-gas emissions, and as a general point, eating meat means taxing the Earth.

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.