DH asked me what do cows eat. AIBU to divorce him immediately?

[TheIckabog]

We were watching a program about a fancy hotel where they have their own cows. There was a clip of the cows being hand fed apples.

DH exclaimed in surprise ‘I didn’t know cows eat apples!’ He then paused and said, ‘What DO cows eat?’ whilst looking genuinely puzzled.

I said to him what do you think they do all day in the fields? They eat grass/hay etc, how do you not know this? DH then shrugged and said he’d never really thought about it.

He is a well educated intelligent man in his 40s. We also grew up/live in a place where dairy production accounts for a large percent of the export, so it’s not like he’s never seen a cow in a field or on a farm before.

I am aghast. AIBU to divorce him immediately? I really can’t see any other option to be honest

Could be worse. The first time my brownie ex husband encountered a style, he asked me how the farmer got the animals over it!

Townie ex husband

My DP didn’t know which planet was Jupiter and which was Saturn.

I got judge too much I moved to the countryside from a city and my mind was blown when I saw sheep with full length tails. I thought there was something wrong with the sheep. I was 24.

My husband grew up thinking dogs were male and cats were female.

@Orangedaisy

My DP didn’t know which planet was Jupiter and which was Saturn.

That one doesn't seem that bad

@BaconsLaw

My husband grew up thinking dogs were male and cats were female.

what the fuck? bahaha

I think I’ve got you all beat. . . My dp thought that dinosaurs and Neanderthals lived at the same time.

My husband grew up thinking dogs were male and cats were female

That’s amazing

I’d keep him if I was you. He sounds like he would be extremely gullible and easy to talk into doing things your way.

Up until about 6 months ago

Sheep have long tails?!

OMFG Google

Well I've never seen a sheep like that. I had no idea they were all docked.

Well I never!

I didn't know that cows eat apples. Learn something new each day !!
I have also seen cows munching away at troughs and I have never really thought if it's just grass and hay. Isn't it how we ended up with mad cow disease was because cows were being fed feed containing other animals?

@bookmum08

Yes as part of their winter/top up food they were using products with ground up sheep matter in it...

Their diet should on my grass and I guess ground veg/fruit they would come naturally across...

@Trisolaris

I think I’ve got you all beat. . . My dp thought that dinosaurs and Neanderthals lived at the same time.

tbf they do appear on TV shows and films together a lot of times so i actually don't think that one is that bad either.....certainly not as bad as the dog/cats one or the OP

Containing cows

So we made veggie animals not just carnivorous but also cannibalistic.

What could go wrong?

I know cows eat grass and hay. I know they were at some point often fed a mix that contained the brains (and maybe other body parts) of other cows which turned out to be a very bad idea, but I only know that because of the mad cow disease crisis when it first became a thing when I was a child. I seriously doubt I would ever have thought about it otherwise though!

My husband thought the duck-billed platypus was extinct, had never heard of window tax and thought star anise was edible (discovered this after he chomped into one at a Thai buffet and he commented how crunchy it was ).

@Antipodeancousin

My thoughts too!

The sheep tails thing I only learned as an adult but in my defence I'm a city girl and they hadn't invented the internet then

Just as long as he doesn't think cows make milk as a result of eating grass...yes I have actually met a grown man who believed this.

My DP thought chocolate 'went off' if you didn't eat it immediately. Same with alcohol. His parents had told him that so they could always finish his chocolate and, in later years, fancy gin etc!

Reminds me of (Link opens to youtube).

Except that cows don't just eat grass. As your hubby observed. And anyone who buys 'grass-fed' meat might be led to wondering what they are fed if they are not grass fed. Then of course there was the delightful practice of feeding cows on the prion-rich diet of other cows. YABU.

A former friend of mine had no idea which meat came from which animal. She thought beef came from sheep or pigs and got really upset when I told her it was from a cow (to the point I didn't dare mention lamb) and once I explained that bacon, ham, gammon and pork all came from pigs she struggled to get her head around it (and then I had to explain that no it wasn't different types of pig for each meat.) I could understand being a young child and not knowing but she was in her mid 20s at this point. She also didn't realise that hens were chickens and thought it was just a similar bird.