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🗓️ 22 December 2014
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0:00.0 | We came across a study from Swiss researchers that finds cows actually hate the sound of cowbells. |
0:09.6 | So we want to help these cows out. |
0:11.5 | Tom Hoogendorn is a dairy farmer. Tom has this been your |
0:15.6 | experience that cows hate cowbells? You know they probably don't hate the |
0:19.6 | sound they may they may even just hate the vibration against their neck all the time when they're |
0:23.7 | moving their necks chewing the grass it's constantly rubbing as well as |
0:27.9 | making noise so I would think maybe the vibration or the rubbing might be more |
0:31.4 | of an issue than the actual noise. |
0:33.0 | Well, is there any sound that you think that cows enjoy? |
0:37.0 | Cows enjoy, easy listening music. |
0:41.0 | You know, when we play music to the cows, it's generally... easy listening pop, |
0:43.0 | when we play music to the cows, it's generally, you know, country music, |
0:48.0 | easy listening pop, rock, that sort of classic rock is my favorite and you know that sort of thing right |
0:54.3 | wait so you you play music for the cows yes what how do you do that well when we |
1:01.6 | milk them they come into a milking area which we call |
1:05.6 | the milking pilot and there's there's some background noise you know the |
1:09.3 | the machines the vacuum pumps that the humming of the compressors, that sort of thing. |
1:14.8 | And just to add a little bit of comfort, |
1:17.6 | even for the milkers, just some music, |
1:19.4 | just kind of ground out some of the other background sounds. |
1:23.6 | This, you know, a music, sieus a savage beast they always say, right? |
1:27.6 | Sure. |
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