So.....do these homing cows make better ice cream? Best regards, Barry Quinlan Director of Operations - Littleton Bureau Veritas
emc-p...@ieee.org wrote on 03/18/2009 01:18:41 PM: > Ref > > We raised cattle when I was growing up (my Dad still does). Cattle > have bottom teeth, no uppers (just the upper gum plate). > > Dairies do use "bolus magnets" to capture metal eaten by cattle so > they don't get "hardware disease" (that is a puncture of their > digestive system from eating metal). As I was taught in Vocational > Agriculture in high school, the magnets stay in the "rumen" which is > the first of the 4 parts of the bovine stomach. > > When I saw that, my first question is how can they tell the cattle > are grazing from a satellite photo? I mean how do you know if they > were not all walking to water, or as some people mentioned, in the > case of dairy cows, being driven to the dairy barn for milking. > Especially if the photos are taken at the same time every day. > > Now, to the proposed study, we could add a component to study the > composition of the soil as well. If there is more Iron content in > the soil, do cattle more often or less often align themselves north- > south. Also, does that mean they get more iron content from the > grass they eat? And what if carrier pidgeons fly overhead, do they > concentrate lines of flux and cause more influence? :-) > > Bret McDougal <>< +1-972-759-2478 > Senior Manager +1-972-852-1001 (Fax) > GC QM PQA & ES bret.mcdou...@gigaset.com <-- NEW! > Gigaset Communications Dallas LLC > http://www.gigaset.us.com/ > This message and any attachments are solely for the use of intended > recipients. They may contain privileged and/or confidential > information, attorney work product or other information protected > from disclosure. If you are not an intended recipient, you are > hereby notified that you received this email in error, and that any > review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this email and any > attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email > in error, please contact the sender and delete the message and any > attachment from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. > > > From: Fred Townsend [mailto:ftowns...@savi.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:42 AM > To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG > Subject: Re: [PSES] Interesting Article > > > > From: Kunde, Brian [mailto:brian_ku...@lecotc.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:35 AM > To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG > Subject: Re: [PSES] Interesting Article > > This study cannot be proposed by anyone with experience with cows or > cattle. I have never known a cow to bite a person. In fact they do > not have front teeth but just a gum plate. The real danger is by > being kicked; hind legs being the most dangerous. No cow/steer is > going to let you walk up behind them in a field. If you sneak up on > them you are very likely to get both rear hooves to your noggin. And > you better hope there is not a bull among the herd or it may likely > be the last thing you will ever do. How much does this study pay? > > No cents… but unlimited male organic fertilizer. > > From: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org] On Behalf Of Gert Gremmen > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:45 AM > To: emc-p...@ieee.org > Subject: RE: Interesting Article > > Unique field study program > Exact today in 2 weeks, there will be a > worldwide study organized upon the behavior > of cattle exposed to low frequency magnetic > field from power overhead lines. > The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic > http://web.mvcr.cz/archiv2008/english/index.html and the university > of Duisburg–Essen (http://www.uni-duisburg-essen.de/) have invited > specialists in EM worldwide to participate in > an cattle observation program. > They have asked the EM-community to use their networks > to address suitable specialists having access to > vector field strength measurement equipment. > Due to variations in the earth magnetic field versus time, > these observations need to take place at exactly 12:00 GMT. > (sorry you guys in the US, you will be late for dinner or > worse, but you are better off than the Chinese having to > stay up all night). > The observation program consist of observing any power overhead > exposed cattle field and recording the actual nose-tail orientation > in grads towards magnetic north of the > cattle at that time. Best mean to do that is > using a photo camera at considerable height. > At the time of observation an indication of > the local field strength should be recorded also for > each animal recorded individually. > For this value to actually represent the field situation > a vector measurement need to be made exactly at the position of > each specimen. The organizing committee has decided to > standardize the exact location to be at the tail of the animal, > to prevent the risks of the cow biting the observer. > More information and subscription: > World wide cow observation program > > Have Fun, > Ing. Gert Gremmen > g.grem...@cetest.nl > www.cetest.nl > Kiotoweg 363 > 3047 BG Rotterdam > T 31(0)104152426 > F 31(0)104154953 > P Before printing, think about the environment. > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org] Namens John Woodgate > Verzonden: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:22 AM > Aan: emc-p...@ieee.org > Onderwerp: Re: Interesting Article > In message <380-220093217232228...@earthlink.net>, dated Tue, 17 Mar > 2009, Cortland Richmond <k...@earthlink.net> writes: > >If, as in some animals known to sense North, cattle do sense the > >magnetic field by way of magnetite particles, and if those are small > >enough, it is POSSIBLE they might no longer sense North due to the AC > >fields under power lines moving those particles around. > Some Australians proved that pigeons home using magnetite particles. > They exposed the pigeons in a ceramic enclosure with a special cover of > organic material to a temperature above the Curie temperature and showed > that they lost all sense of direction. > However, they tasted delicious. > -- > OOO - Own Opinions Only. 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