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Originally Posted by Barbecue
unlikely
Corn will always have a higher sugar content over grass. Like children, any animal will always go with the sweeter feed because it tastes better, despite being much worse on their stomaches
the cow will stay on the corn side and never look back to grass
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Cows simply are not that smart. If they break out of their enclosure and get in your vegetable garden, they will eat whatever is in front of them. They don't go running to the corn first, then the carrots, and so on.
My mother had a saying about cows in the garden.
"What a cow doesn't eat or step on or lie on, she shats on"
On the other hand, deer are very discriminatory on what they will eat in your garden and contrary to cows, they don't step on anything or elsewise destroy it.
They will head to beets first, and start at the end of the row, paw a few out one night, go back to the spot they left on the next night, and work their way up the row. They will do the same with carrots. Theh won't touch potatoes, corn, dill, or zucchini or other squash, the latter having small sort of thorns on the spine that would bother their nose. Peas won't ever get higher than 3 or 4 inches, same with lettuce. They like onions as well, and cucumbers. They can even pick beans with their tongue and not pull the plant out of the ground.