a pail of cow slop

[frindle]

Hello.
Would you please tell me what 'cow slop' means here?
Please help! Thank you.


He hoisted a battered suitcase on his head and held a pail of cow slop in his free hand.

 

[riquecohen]

Hello.
Would you please tell me what 'cow slop' means here?
Please help! Thank you.


He hoisted a battered suitcase on his head and held a pail of cow slop in his free hand.

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[frindle]

Thank you. I have looked it up before, but I'm still confused a little.
Is it mean ' wet feed for cow' then?

 

[5jj]

Thank you. I have looked it up before, but I'm still confused a little.
[STRIKE]Is[/STRIKE] Does it mean ' wet feed for cows' then?

Yes.

 

[Barb_D]

I hope my father doesn't feel faint if he ever learns this, but I thought you gave slop to pigs and you that cows got straw. Or hay. Or something.

 

[5jj]

I hope my father doesn't feel faint if he ever learns this, but I thought you gave slop to pigs and you that cows got straw. Or hay. Or something.

I generally associate slop with pigs, as do several dictionaries, but I am fairly sure that I have seen cows being fed slop.

ps. I have just found this: This is a great thing for Nebraska because wet feeds are less costly for the plants (they don't have to spend the money or energy to dry the feed from the wet form to make DDGS), and the wet feeds are actually a better feed for feedlot cattle. Feeding in the wet form creates some challenges, but these can be overcome.

http://www.extension.org/pages/3950...e-cattle-producers-concerned-with-the-concent

 

[frindle]

Thanks to all of you.:-D

 

[BobK]

Transatlantic quirk: in Br Eng, pigs eat swill.

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[5jj]

Transatlantic quirk: in Br Eng, pigs eat swill.

I have clearly been associating with too many colonials. I didn't even notice that.