These Cows Will Shake Your Hand
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"It's a lot harder to convince skeptics that cows can be easily trained to shake hands than it is to teach the cows to do the trick," says retired Ohio dairy farmer Francis Mack, of Metamora. For 40 years, he's been teaching his Holstein cows to shake hands and now his grandchildren are teaching their 4-H cattle to "shake".
Says Mack: "It's really not that hard to teach cows to handshake. In fact, it might be easier than teaching a dog. I just pet them and lift their front foot a couple times and pretty soon they learn to do it on their own. When we still had horses, I taught them how to shake, too."
Mack is out of the dairy business now but his "handshaking cow" tradition carries on through his grandchildren, their 4-H projects, and the 12 cows his son keeps on the home farm. (Excerpted from Farmland News)
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These Cows Will Shake Your Hand AG WORLD Ag World 6-5-19 "It's a lot harder to convince skeptics that cows can be easily trained to shake hands than it is to teach the cows to do the trick," says retired Ohio dairy farmer Francis Mack, of Metamora. For 40 years, he's been teaching his Holstein cows to shake hands and now his grandchildren are teaching their 4-H cattle to "shake".
Says Mack: "It's really not that hard to teach cows to handshake. In fact, it might be easier than teaching a dog. I just pet them and lift their front foot a couple times and pretty soon they learn to do it on their own. When we still had horses, I taught them how to shake, too."
Mack is out of the dairy business now but his "handshaking cow" tradition carries on through his grandchildren, their 4-H projects, and the 12 cows his son keeps on the home farm. (Excerpted from Farmland News)
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