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

My Mum also thought that you should put butter on burns That used to be the standard way of treating burns. Until it was worked out that it was a bad idea.

[quote QueenOfToast]@August20 thank you so much for sharing that delightful video clip.

@TheIckabog This could be a fun project - find out what other stuff DH doesn't know and share it here.

I found out a couple of days ago that my DSs (aged 18 and 16) didn't know what a tea towel was. They know we have 'cloths' for drying pots and 'cloths' for drying hands in the kitchen but didn't know that they had different names.
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DH has no idea that tea towels and hand towels were different. He still can't tell the difference, he just knows that in our house the checked ones are tea towels, and that he's not meant to swap them with hand towels.

He also didn't know that yellow dandelions and white fluffy dandelions were the same thing. He'd somehow assumed that they just happened to have the same name. He was 35 and a primary school teacher at the time!

A lot of condescending posts on here Some people just love to feel superior

@Imworthit Over the moon high apparently!

When my 14 year old daughter saw sheep grazing in the field for the very first time she called them “wild sheep” . 😆😆😆

My granny used to say the same thing about lightning Wolfff - she was actually really scared during storms and used to hide under the covers. (she was bed-bound anyway and held court from her large bed in the living room).
Though I was surprised to find out that some people do get hit by lightning indoors and in old houses lightning has been known to strike through the cracks around a window.
Eeek at the thought of your mum dropping that iron in a bucket of water though!

My dog is currently having a great time eating plums that have fallen from our plum tree. I was a bit worried about it at first because it doesn't seem like a doggy thing to eat and I thought it might give him the runs but he seems fine.

On the 'what do cows eat' front, I was very surprised when the whole mad cow thing hit the news that cows were eating sheep. I'm from Ireland and had thought they they only eat grass/silage. I'm still a bit surprised tbh that a species that is very specifically evolved to get nutrition from grass, to the point that they have more than one stomach, can also process a meat product. I would have assumed that it would upset their digestive systems.

@bookmum08

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?

In the winters cows are (or were) fed something that was like the dry food you might give to a dog or cat. That was what had cow meat in it to bulk it out. On my grandad's farm each cow had a collar with a chip in it. When the cow went to the trough it dispensed enough food for that cow. Each cow was entitled to a different amount of food.

My dh when we first met (he was 18) genuinely thought that to breastfeed, you had to ram a needle down into your nipple to pierce it so the milk could come out as that's what his friend told him. Bless him

It's similar to how so many people seem to think bread has milk in

Lots of bread has soya in which is similar in structure to cows milk protein so I had to cut it out when feeding my ultra reactive dc. This could be one source of confusion.

DH thought that the 'dark side of the moon' was so called because it didn't get any sunshine. I told him that it was 'dark' meaning 'unknown' and asked him what he thought the old phrase 'deepest, darkest Africa' means and said that it's where the trees are very close together.

I had a colleague who was taken out to lunch by a client. When she came back, I said ‘What did you have?’
‘Venison!’ she replied.
‘You ate venison?’ I said.
‘Yes,’ she said. ‘You know. Like veal?’
‘Sit down,’ I told her. ‘Venison isn’t like veal. Veal is from calves. Venison is from deer. Like bambi.’
‘Oh!’ She sez. ‘I thought it was tough!’

Walking on a Wiltshire footpath one day I had to help a friend (air hostess) to the ground after we encountered a Friesian cow 'dry-humping' another just the other side of the hedge. It looked pretty intimidating seeing this huge cows face peering down at us from a lofty height and she near enough fainted and was certainly sick. Later after she recovered it was clear she thought cows and other animals gently lay down in the barn and rolled around in their equivalent of the human missionary position....!

"47Pukkatea

To be fair, most of the world's cows are fed soy, not grass."
You do know that cows stand eating grass all day?! They might give them a top up in the winter of hay, generally its grass all the way.

@NiceGerbil no it was sheep fed to cows, sheep carry a disease called Scrapie that then manifested in the cows as CJD 🤮

We weren't the only country with this issue, just the one that admitted to it...

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar

DH thought that the 'dark side of the moon' was so called because it didn't get any sunshine. I told him that it was 'dark' meaning 'unknown' and asked him what he thought the old phrase 'deepest, darkest Africa' means and said that it's where the trees are very close together.

Er....that is partly true because the dark side AKA the far side which is that which is not currently experiencing sunlight. It is unseen rather than unknown.

@JammyHands

I had a colleague who was taken out to lunch by a client. When she came back, I said ‘What did you have?’ ‘Venison!’ she replied. ‘You ate venison?’ I said. ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘You know. Like veal?’ ‘Sit down,’ I told her. ‘Venison isn’t like veal. Veal is from calves. Venison is from deer. Like bambi.’ ‘Oh!’ She sez. ‘I thought it was tough!’

I don't get this.

Why is eating deer different to eating veal?

"45BlackAmericanoNoSugar

DH thought that the 'dark side of the moon' was so called because it didn't get any sunshine."

but this true isnt it? It's the side that you currently cant see because the sun is shining on one side. Pretty sure there arent any sides on the moon we havent seen, as it swivels? Plus deepest darkest Africa, does mean the middle of the jungle where the trees are "close together". I've never interpreted it as being a bit that's not been explored yet.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar Your DH is right, isn’t he?

"Why is eating deer different to eating veal?"
It's a different animal!

@Orchidsindoors Pretty sure there arent any sides on the moon we havent seen, as it swivels? it actually doesn’t swivel. We see the same side the whole time because it’s spins as it orbits and so we only see one side. You never see the back of the moon

But now I think that blackamericano ‘s dh is wrong. Sun must shine on the back otherwise what would a solar eclipse be?

@Orchidsindoors

"47Pukkatea

To be fair, most of the world's cows are fed soy, not grass."
You do know that cows stand eating grass all day?! They might give them a top up in the winter of hay, generally its grass all the way.

In the UK, yes, but not in many places - 'grass-fed' beef and dairy are premium products in the USA because it is usual for beef to be farmed intensively with little or no access to pasture.

One of my good friends genuinely thinks that pelicans are prehistoric dinosaur like creatures. Oh and that electricity didn’t exist in WW2. She has a degree and everything. Honestly none of the posts on this thread surprise me, they genuinely do walk among us.