Get some gullah folk to help round em up and Milk em daily for a cut....
Max Dillon via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
July 28, 2016 at 2:40 PM
He should import some Italian expertise and start making fresh
mozzarella di buffola, good fresh stuff is nearly impossible to find
here, and terribly expensive.
Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
July 28, 2016 at 1:26 PM
A buddy of mine ended up with some number of water buffaloes. It is
actually a pretty funny story. I can't remember all the details but
it involved a guy who had like 20 of the things he was going into the
mozarella cheese business and needed some place to keep them. This was
like 4 or 5 years ago, maybe 6. My buddy has cattle he raises for
beef for restaurants around here, and his farm is along the river, so
for whatever rent he said sure he would keep them and do whatever with
them, they can hang out in the river or ponds or whatever.
So time goes by and the guy is not dealing with the WBs, then goes
dark, not paying anything and can't be reached. Some months pass and
he calls up and says he has found another place for them, so he says
he'll come and get some to take wherever. My buddy notices a few
days later seems like there are more around so he counts them and is
totally like WTF is going on, there's more of them now than there were
before. Seems rather than picking them up the guy dropped off more
that he had been keeping somewhere else. So now there's like 30-35 of
them hanging around, and the guy disappears again. Plus I think they
started reproducing, there might have been a bull or two in the mix
along in there at some point, or he brought them or something.
Then some other guy from Georgia calls and says he has bought them,
some number of them, and wants to come get them. My buddy by then is
like come get every one of the damn things, I'm tired of fooling with
them. So the guy shows up with a tractor trailer, and starts loading
then says he only bought 20 or 25 of them, he can't deal with the
others, thank you very much. So my buddy now has a bunch of the
things around still, and reproducing. They are pretty big, and fairly
docile but stupid, so he just kinda lets them hang out with his other
cattle. He might have sold some or something but apparently the
market is fairly limited to cheese producers and there aren't too many
in that bidness. I'm not sure they're any good for eating or they
would be on menus around here. I don't think anyone else wants to
milk them so they just do whatever cows do. You go over there and
drive through the fields, and there are these big water buffaloes and
babies hanging around in the pastures and the woods and whatnot, mixed
in with his regular cattle, it's pretty funny, looks like Vietnam or
some damn place.
--FT
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Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
July 28, 2016 at 11:48 AM
Spoiler alert: And don't get too attached either, as they will all need to
be slaughtered.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Craig via Mercedes
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Craig via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
July 27, 2016 at 11:09 PM
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 19:00:43 -0500 fmiser via Mercedes
What he said. But prepare before you get the cattle.
Craig
P.S. There was a spell in Colorado when we had no livestock.
One Sunday, our Pastor's wife, noting my western hat asked,
in the appropriate accent, "Well, cowboy, how many cows do
you have?" My response, "Aint got no cattle, but got two
head o' dog," got everyone nearby laughing.
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fmiser via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
July 27, 2016 at 7:00 PM
It's work - but not necessarily _that_ much.
If only 10 of that 20 acres is in pasture, and there is a
water source, the cows could be just fine for weeks. Or
months. Unless the coyotes get them. Or the cougars. Or
they get sick. But they don't need daily attention. If so,
all the guys running cows around here would have no stock.
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