Canadian Family Provides Mattresses And Back Scratchers For Their Cows

“Members of a Canadian family say they are hoping a new $1 million barn, featuring cow comforts including automated back scratchers, will boost milk production.

Martin family members said each of their 90 cows give an average of 7.9 gallons of milk per day and they are hoping the luxuries in the new barn, located east of Elmira, Ontario, will boost production to an average 8.5 gallons, The (Toronto) Star reported Wednesday.

The farmers said the barn’s luxuries include mattresses for each cow, automated curtains to regulate light, solar-heated water and automated back scratchers that turn on when a cow leans against them.”

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Even if the creature comforts don’t result in increased milk production, it’s the right thing to do.

Cows provide us with refreshing milk, and the least we can do is try to make them as comfortable as possible.

These amenities should be the rule and not the exception, it’s a crime how awful we treat livestock and other animals.

Content and healthy cows produce more milk, both humans and cows benefit when we treat the poor animals humanely.

Cows Gone Wild

“The deaths of no fewer than four people after being trampled by cows in the past two months has prompted Britain’s main farming union to issue a warning about the dangers of provoking the normally docile animals.