Milk it for all its worth...

And stupid me always assumed that they didn't know how to read a clock, dag...

Excellent headline, subby!

Udderly rediculous.

I was going to read the whole article but I decided to just skim it. so far I'm about 2% done.

Thank you, Scripps Howard; writer for the Quad-City Times.
If it were not for you, I would never have known about the FASCINATING sleep habits of Northern California cows.
Tonight, my dear friend, I shall sleep soundly.
And I owe it all to you, Scripps.
You... Scripps, are a true hero.
I dedicate these "Z"s to you...
ZZZZZZ (That's me sleeping soundly now that I know that you have solved the mystery of how cows cope with daylight-savings time change)
You are a hero among... zzzzz .... me.... me.... mennn... zzzzzz.
Thank you Scripps.

I'm gonna get creamed for that if I don't cheese it up

I was going to say just milk the damn cows when they are used to it; change the farmer's work schedule instead!

so I looked at the comments on TFA and someone tried that logic and got ...

so you are saying have the farmer re-arrange his/her schedule? understood but now the farmer will be late to the son/daughters ball game, dance program. the neighbors wedding etc.

This makes me wonder if the kids ballgame/dancing, neighbors weddings etc are only scheduled around the milking schedule in Summer or in Winter.

/dont feel like registering there to say so

That's simmental! Do they hit the hay at 7 or 8?
Oh well. Six in one, calf dozen in the other...

/if anyone has a beef with this puns, back off. I'm from new jersey...

My uncle Angus is gonna ROAST over this!

did my comments go tits up?

Ummm, why is this guy making the cows suffer and potentially losing a working animal by making them adjust to daylight savings? I grew up on a dairy and we had two sets of clocks....one for us and the other for the cows. The cows time never changed, they were always milked at the same time year-round before, you know, their udders exploded.

If he really wants to change them over, why doesn't he push them forward or backward in time by 5 minutes for 12 days to ease them in? Then again, this is a guy who is bothered by the hassle of changing his clocks twice a year. I guess he'd rather risk the health of his heard.

nobodyUwannaknow: I was going to say just milk the damn cows when they are used to it; change the farmer's work schedule instead!

so I looked at the comments on TFA and someone tried that logic and got ...

so you are saying have the farmer re-arrange his/her schedule? understood but now the farmer will be late to the son/daughters ball game, dance program. the neighbors wedding etc.

This makes me wonder if the kids ballgame/dancing, neighbors weddings etc are only scheduled around the milking schedule in Summer or in Winter.

/dont feel like registering there to say so

My dad missed a lot of little league games, music recitals, and dance performances. We understood and did a special performance or play-by-play recount for him after dinner....if he could stay awake.

If it was a really important event, like a wedding, he'd have to trust his farm hands to get the job done without him.

Is this really a surprise? My dog freaks out when the clocks change, and demands to be fed at 4PM instead of 5PM. Its incredible how dead-nuts accurate her body clock is.

Who churns up stories like this? Can't they do any butter than this? You'd think they'd whey the value of this story and not just udder this kind of bull. Teat really lact any substance.

/penis

End Daylight Saving Time.

Moo!

/That is cow speak for "Moo!".

LoL, great headline subby!

I grew up on a dairy farm, and it's easy to notice. It's why most smaller family farms where I grew up didn't adjust for DST. Cows are big, dumb, creatures of habit. Cows will be in the same place every day if that's where they get fed. Same thing for all their other behaviors.

Taking a cow's vital bodily fluids. Not on my watch. My daylight savings watch.

pendy16:Thank you, Scripps Howard; writer for the Quad-City Times.

Scripps Howard is a news service--you know, just in case you were serious.

Beretta or, Chevrolet Baretta?

DST: worst idea ever. I know it was one of Ben Franklin's ideas, but I swear, he must have been high on some 18th century substance when he came up with this winner.

BooBoo KittyFark: The cows time never changed, they were always milked at the same time year-round before, you know, their udders exploded.

I have never lived or worked on a farm. (Although I did water the cows in the Army. Don't ask.)

My Weeners when I read the headline was "What kind of idiot tries to change his cows' schedule twice a year?" Then I read the article and found out. A Californian organic farmer.

Jamieboy: DST: worst idea ever. I know it was one of Ben Franklin's ideas, but I swear, he must have been high on some 18th century substance when he came up with this winner.

Don't tell me - you're from Indiana

Cows are big, dumb, creatures of habit. Cows will be in the same place every day if that's where they get fed. Same thing for all their other behaviors.

Most humans are pretty much the same.

DST: worst idea ever. I know it was one of Ben Franklin's ideas, but I swear, he must have been high on some 18th century substance when he came up with this winner.

He didn't actually advocate fiddling with the clock. His idea was to rouse people "who don't wake up till noon" at 4AM with cannon fire and church bells in hopes that they would go to bed earlier and save candle wax.

The way most people worked in those days, I don't think many of them slept till noon.

The asshat we can thank the most for our current silliness is William Willett.

On my farm we just sit the cows down every spring and fall and explain the time change to them. We never have this problem.

Good communication with your livestock is key. Keep the channels open.

Hmm. Turns out I might be a milk cow.

/goddamn daylight savings
//farkin' up my world

i'm not a farmer, I just played one on TV, but my experience with neighbors who milked when I was young and impressionable in Indiana (yes, I know) is that cows don't know about DST, so they still need to be milked at the same time.

and DST is a big conspiracy anyway. we never save money on energy and when it gets dark later, we go shopping to spend even more money. the candy lobby has been fighting to get DST moved back to include halloween for decades becuase it would make them millions more in profit each year.

the cow will start eating less because they aren't milked on time and they are uncomfortable. now your getting less milk and losing money. like someone else said you have to gradually change the time you milk.

I am a dairy farmer, all we do is adjust the cows gradually.
So instead of milking them at seven we'll milk them at 7:45 (tomorrow, then 7 30 the next day, til we're back on the old schedule.

It's not a big problem, i've worked a few places where they'd have an hour, hour and a halfs diffence one day to the next. Any kind of screwup could have you milking an hour later. An if you're in a rush you start a little earlier.

this could be a cowtastrophe.

Science can save us. A little selective breeding and we will have daylight saving cows.

Stop DST? No way! I love DST, and always have. Non observance of DST was one of the things I did not like about Arizona.

Just who is confused?

Frumpy 'Splains it.

http://frumpycartersbackyard.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-aint-kidding-this-is-true-st ory_17.html

In the age of artificial lighting, why is it we have DST again?

/sick of waking up either early or dog-tired for a week twice a year

Is on the case.

/obscure?