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Cows normally eat grass, but one bovine in Kenya loves to eat sheep instead. Charles Mamboleo, the owner of the animal, discovered his cow’s different food preference when he found that it first gored one of his sheep and then had it for meal.

He initially thought the cow was starving, so Mamboleo increased the animal’s water and fodder. But the next day, he saw again another sheep corpse, reports Daily Nation.

Mamboleo thinks what was happening was that the cow was bewitched. But his wife Consepta Kerubo’s concern is not so much the animal but her children – that after tiring of sheep meat, the cow might hanker for human meat.

However, Albert Kabugi, an agricultural officer of Nakuru County, explains that the cow possibly was deficient in nutrients and minerals available in grass. He believes the animal sought lamb meat due to its nutrient deficiency.

According to Springerlink.com, all grass species have 98 percent water and more carbohydrates, plus low quantities of other nutrients such as protein, amino acids and vitamins.

If Mamboleo’s cow was purely a work animal used, for instance, in plowing the field, it would not matter much if the beast ate grass or sheep, except that sheep is more expensive than grass. However, if the cow was raised for milking purposes, being grass-fed would be better.

Whfoods.com said that the cow’s milk would improve if it is grass fed only with its milk becoming richer in omega-3 fats, vitamin E, beta-carotene and CLA, or conjugated linoleic acid, a beneficial fatty acid. Of course, human milk is better than cow’s milk.

To contact the writer, email: v.hernandez@ibtimes.com.au

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