In 2002, Chuck Shepard's News of the Weird mentioned a Wall Street Journal dispatch from Cuba, suggesting that Fidel Castro's 1987 vision of "apartment cows" was still a ways off. (Castro had pushed farmers to breed small cows, not much larger than dogs, that families could keep in small homes and that would supply their minimum daily quantities of milk.) Two months after that story ran, a farmer in Rockwell, Iowa, said he had bred such miniature cows but that they were not good milk producers. Cut to September 2004: An Associated Press dispatch from San Juan Y Martinez, Cuba, touted rancher Raul Hernandez, who has now apparently successfully created a small herd of 28-inch-high cows that can deliver about five quarts of high-quality milk.
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Another progressive idea wh... (Below threshold)1. Posted by JAB | October 22, 2004 10:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Another progressive idea whose time has come! Why didn't we think of this?
1. Posted by JAB | October 22, 2004 10:01 PM |
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Posted on October 22, 2004 22:01
2. Posted by Robert Crawford | October 22, 2004 10:07 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Can they be house-trained?
2. Posted by Robert Crawford | October 22, 2004 10:07 PM |
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Posted on October 22, 2004 22:07
3. Posted by The Old Coot | October 22, 2004 10:55 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Will they loudly moo if a burglar approaches?
3. Posted by The Old Coot | October 22, 2004 10:55 PM |
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Posted on October 22, 2004 22:55
4. Posted by libertarianjim | October 23, 2004 12:01 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"What's that comrade? Seriously? They managed to engineer those mini-c... whoa, whoa WHOA!" ***crash***
4. Posted by libertarianjim | October 23, 2004 12:01 AM |
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Posted on October 23, 2004 00:01
5. Posted by Pat Adkins | October 23, 2004 12:41 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
They can't even build good stages in Cuba; otherwis Fidel would still have his knee and elbow intact.
This story rates with the one that "Fidel was carrying on with state business over the phone while his knee was being attended to." He was probably issuing the tortue order for the stage builder!
5. Posted by Pat Adkins | October 23, 2004 12:41 AM |
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Posted on October 23, 2004 00:41
6. Posted by Marc | October 23, 2004 3:07 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Do they make stools that small?
Are the cow pies small enough to fit in a lunch box?
Will the advertising tagline, "all beef burger" take on new meaning?
How many pint sized cows will fit on an innertube raft?
6. Posted by Marc | October 23, 2004 3:07 AM |
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Posted on October 23, 2004 03:07
7. Posted by jeff | October 23, 2004 10:19 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"deliver up to 5 quarts of milk"
over their lifetime... maybe 5 quarts.
7. Posted by jeff | October 23, 2004 10:19 AM |
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Posted on October 23, 2004 10:19
8. Posted by kim | October 23, 2004 5:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Seriously?
8. Posted by kim | October 23, 2004 5:31 PM |
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Posted on October 23, 2004 17:31
9. Posted by homebru | October 23, 2004 6:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Marc,
Not as many as will fit into an amphibious pickup truck.
9. Posted by homebru | October 23, 2004 6:59 PM |
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Posted on October 23, 2004 18:59