Iowa Bovines Enjoy Beer-Spiked Feed

[LincolnMcGrath]

Iowa Bovines Enjoy Their Beer-Spiked Feed So Much They Hesitate to Eat of It's Not There

The Associated Press

NORWAY, Iowa Dec 21, 2004 — Cattlemen are hoping to raise a better bovine with beer. About a dozen eastern Iowa farmers have been spiking their cattle feed with beer. So far, the herds are lapping it up, said cattlemen Robert Miller.

They like it so much that they hesitate to eat when their feed isn't mixed with beer, Miller said.

It began about a year ago when an official at Fleck Sales, a Cedar Rapids beer distributor, contacted Fisher's Feed and Fertilizer in Norway, a small town southeast of Cedar Rapids.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=350257

[MercutioATC]

1. Cows have been fed brewer's yeast for decades...

...beer seems a little pricey, though.

[LincolnMcGrath]

2. Its free.

[MercutioATC]

4. That'll teach me so skim an article...thanks :)

[StopTheMorans]

3. these cows have it so easy; they don't even have to pay for their beer

like the rest of us...