• Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz
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    Considering that’s a Holstein breed cow and therefore a milking cow, the nutritional demands are entirely different. Getting a cow to produce 40 liters of milk a day is no easy task and requires grass of the highest quality, combined with a generous dose of concentrate feed with grains and legumes/presscake. If a normal hobby horse was fed a diet like this they would turn obese almost instantly. In fact hobby horses usually require as poor quality feed as possible because it turns out that being ridden at walking speed for an hour 1-2 times a week is a very low amount of exercise for a horse. You have to intentionally grow as rough and low quality grass as possible for the horses not to get obese. That’s why oats are no longer given to horses. A race horse or a working horse that’s active for several hours a day can however be given oats or other concentrated feed and may be able to handle, or at least come close to handling, a dairy cow type diet. However these types of hard working horses are rare nowadays.

    TLDR dairy cows and horses generally do NOT eat the same diet.

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      Workhorses usually compete with the dairy cows. However during downtime the horses need to be put on a diet so yeah, match the calories to the lifestyle.

      Yeah, I still know some workhorses

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      Also, I’m not sure that cows are really all that fat in the first place. They’re more big than fat.

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          That’s baffling. If he’s really 2% body fat, all of his fat must be in his second chin. I think he’s supposed to be strong like the world’s strongest man competitors who are noticeably fat, but they wouldn’t have 2% body fat. If Fisk is 2% body fat, then if you saw him naked, he’d have one of the most bizarre looking bodies. All fat around the head and hands, and absolutely ripped everywhere else.

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            24 hours ago

            maybe his mutant power is neck fat accumulation and he figured out how to make it work in his favor. Also, his taylor could just really suck.