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Date: Tue, Jan 11 2011 14:14:06
Panda cow is a breed of miniature cow with markings that resemble those of a panda[1]. There are reportedly only 24 in the world, as of January 2011[2] As well as being known as the two word combination of the words Panda and Cow, it has also been known to be referred to as a Pow or a Mow (pronounced Mau, being a combination of the words "Miniature" and "Cow"). The panda cow is also known by the newly formed scientific name for this animal, extrarius exemplum bovis. Also known as the miniature panda cow, it is the result of a mutation. its markings include a white belt around the animal's midsection, and a white panda-like face with black markings around the eyes.[3] In December, 2010, a panda cow was born in Colorado that received a lot of press[4].
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Date: Tue, Jan 11 2011 14:41:00
Richard Gradwohl with a miniature Holstein called Paula Sue.
[B]When you hear the words "mini cows" they sound as if they are the result of someone's daft hobby. But miniature cattle could be the future of environmentally-friendly beef.
In the US, where around 30kg of beef is eaten per person each year, farms are ditching Holsteins and Aberdeen Angus for their smaller counterparts, and there are now well over 20,000 mini cows in the US. Professor Richard Gradwohl is responsible for 18 new breeds of miniature cattle on his Seattle farm, including a Miniature Panda – a fluffy eye-patched little cow just 107cm high. (His micromini cattle are less than 96.5cm tall – those shorter than 92cm are known as "teacup cattle".)
"When I started frittering around with miniature cattle, everyone thought I was nuts," he says. Since the 1940s, US farmers have been breeding cows for size, making them much larger than their British cousins. But with Gradwohl's farm being swallowed up by rising taxes, he had to give up 60 acres of land. He discovered that it is possible to raise 10 miniature cows on five acres, rather than just two full-sized cows, meaning that land could yield up to three times as much beef – but the cows only need one third of the feed.
"These little cows were just right for me," he says. And, given worries about cows' contribution to greenhouse gases, it takes 10 mini cows to produce the amount of methane of one full-sized cow.
Gradwohl now ships semen, embryos and cattle all over the world – except to the UK, where 1,400 farmers already breed Dexters, which are 96-111cm tall.
And the mini cows' beef tastes great. The bigger the cow, the longer the cells in the muscle are. A shorter cell means more tender beef, so smaller breeds have naturally better flavour.
Although they sound innovative, mini cows date back to the 1600s, says Gradwohl, when "British farmers developed small breeds because they only had five-acre farms". Now, with a bit of luck, more farmers of the 1.3 billion-strong cattle worldwide might also try them out for size.[/B] -
Date: Tue, Jan 11 2011 14:46:25
[video=youtube;WPScE_PuV9Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPScE_PuV9Q[/video] A two-headed calf was born in the village of Abedad in Georgia. It’s owner said she thought initially that the mother cow had given birth to twins. Since its birth, the owner was forced to bottle-feed the calf as the mother rejected it. The calf has four eyes and three ears and appears to be otherwise healthy.
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Date: Tue, Jan 11 2011 14:47:28
Moses, who has been hailed as a "holy cow", was born last week at a dairy farm in Sterling, Connecticut, a small rustic town on the Rhode Island border. The mostly brown calf is half Jersey, half Holstein. Local children gave him his Biblical name. His owner, Brad Davis, told WFSB-TV he thought the marking may be a message from above, though he is still trying to worl out what that message might be. Ric Grummer, the chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Dairy Science, told the Norwich Bulletin newspaper it is not unusual for a Holstein cow to have a white marking on its head. But Mr Grummer said the cross shape is unique.
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Date: Tue, Jan 11 2011 14:49:17
This calf was born just in time for Valentine’s Day, and just for the momentous occasion, this calf has a nice little heart-shaped patch of white hair on his head. Awwww.
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Date: Tue, Jan 11 2011 22:25:50
Gallocatechin gallate From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gallocatechin gallate Other names[hide] (-)-Gallocatechin gallate (2S,3R)-2-(3,4,5-Trihydroxyphenyl)-3,4-dihydro-1(2H)-benzopyran-3,5,7-triol 3-(3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoate) Identifiers CAS number 4233-96-9 SMILES [show] Properties Molecular formula C22H18O11 Molar mass 458.37 g mol−1 Exact mass 458.084911 Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa) Infobox references Gallocatechin gallate (GCG) is the ester of gallocatechin and gallic acid and a type of catechin. It is an epimer of EGCG. In a high temperature environment, an epimerization change is likely to occur, because heating results in the conversion from EGCG to GCG[1]. According to the referenced study the resulting CGC (the epimer of EGCG) results in even lower dietary cholesterol absorption than occurs with EGCG. While this may be a beneficial outcome with respect to cholesterol reduction activity, for those wishing to maximize the EGCG content of green tea infusions, it is considered inappropriate to infuse green tea or its extracts with overheated water.
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Date: Tue, Jan 11 2011 22:41:00
yay for cow info?
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Date: Wed, Jan 12 2011 00:25:47
w00t
lol your welcome for the cow info, indians consider cows to be holy (hence, "holy cow!").
Glad I could be of assistance. -
Date: Wed, Jan 12 2011 04:17:23
Anybody who contributes guro is worthy of their own existence and whatever complaints they might make.