Do free range cows and goats eat the same thing?!
Answers: If you put a cow & a goat in your garden, the cow would eat the grass and the goat would eat everything else. The goat would strip everything off your shrubs and trees and leave the grass.
Not exactly.
goats eat more variety, like trash, paper, etc... Cows have 4 stomachs. I believe a goat has two.
Cows eat vegetation (mainly grass), goats eat anything.
No. Good cows eat grass and hay. Gross cows might even eat little bits of old cows (not even kidding here.) Good goats drink clean water and eat green grass.
TECHNICALLY YES.
“Just because it says free-range does not mean that it is welfare-friendly.”
—Dr. Charles Olentine, editor of Egg Industry magazine, an industry trade journal(1)
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), "free-range" beef, pork, and other non-poultry products are loosely defined as coming from animals who ate grass and lived on a range. No other criteria-such as the size of the range or the amount of space given to each animal-are required before beef, lamb, and pork can be called "free-range." "Free-range" and "free-roaming" facilities are rarely inspected or verified to be in compliance with these two criteria. The USDA relies "upon producer testimonials to support the accuracy of these claims."
Even when "free-range" cows, sheep, and pigs are allowed to live outdoors, they are still subjected to excruciating mutilations without painkiller or analgesic, such as castration, branding, dehorning, tail-docking, and tooth-grinding. Once they are fattened to market weight, they are trucked to slaughterhouses. They are denied food, water, and adequate protection from extreme temperatures once in the vehicles, and many die during the trip. These cows, sheep, and pigs are still slaughtered in the same violent ways as factory-farmed animals: They are pushed through narrow chutes, hung upside down on conveyor belts, and have their throats slit; some are dismembered while still fully conscious.
Why not too.? They're all grazers eating lots of grass, leaves whenever available, strip the bark of trees , flowers,
not forgetting the occasional plastic bag if the herdsman has left these around carelessly! Oops!
Cows are grazers. They eat mostly grass and hay and other such low growing vegetation. Goats are browsers. They will eat grass, hay, sticks, the leaves off bushes and trees...pretty much any sort of plant they can get to.