A Good Reason to Love Your Cow

In Newcastle University (in northeast England) they performed a study and they wanted to know, if you name your cow and give it love, will it produce more milk? And the answer is yes in most cases. The researchers discovered that farmers that named their cows Betsy, Gertrude, or Daisy improved the overall milk collection by about 500 pints a year. The researchers interviewed 516 dairy farmers and almost half of them said that the cows on their dairy farms that are named reported a higher milk yeild. "Just as people respond better to the personal touch, cows also feel happier and more relaxed if they are given a bit more one-to-one attention,"Catherine Douglas, the university's School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, said. I guess I can believe this but it does seem far fetched.

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