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Originally Posted by redforever
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.
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Actually, that is not true. Cows can be incredibly picky.
You can feed your cows good bales of hay from the past season and they love it; try to sneak in a bale from the year prior or some slough hay instead of the good stuff, they will not clean it up. Drives my dad nuts how picky they are.
Of course, like anything, if they're hungry enough they'll eat whatever they can.