Herd Of Cattle? Bulls, Cows And Calves On Stamps

I had a Scottish born room mate in college who spoke lovingly of 'hairy scottish cows'
Here's some others.

Forgot about this one :



note the image in the markings on the cow.

Drew

I agree with you Dan that is one beautiful stamp.

My favourite US stamp for sure, wish I had one.

Litho,

Yes, it is a MOO-ving stamp, isn't it?

Dan

Puzzler here is Prize Bull " Mucki" for you.

I had contemplated the lovely Highland Cow stamp for my avatar... but I'm not sure I could live with the "complimentary" comments that might have arisen!
And for the record, I recently had a haircut...

All these pictures of cattle bring back two memories:

my trips in the mid_1950s to the Toronto Stock Yards in transport trucks to deliver cattle. As a youngster my job was to help clean out the trailer after delivery. To this day I can still smell the near-by Canada Packers plant that processed meat.

It also evokes memories from my 1960 Agricultural Science class taught by "Tex" Watson, who never saw a picture of a cow breed that he didn't like. Thanks to him I feel like I've seen these pictures before.

Cynical, the stock yards at Keele & St Clair are long gone now.

People in the area complained about the smell so they finally
moved to Kitchener, I believe.

In the late fifties we also lived within a couple miles of the place
and depending on the wind you would get a good healthy whiff
but you lived with it.

And then people wondered what happened to all the good jobs.

Papua & New Guinea

1/7d



2/5d

Litho: I remember that whole area being a hive of activity. We also delivered pigs to the Schneider's plant in Kitchener. Has there been a pig thread yet?

I don't wish to be a horse's @ss but I had a deja vu moment when I saw the Australia "cutting out a steer" stamp. I felt like I had either seen the scene, or the horse, or part of the horse before and then it came to me - the 1940 US pony express stamp (Scott#894-see below). Note the similarities between the hind ends of the two horses.

Stampstudy : Lovely scans Sir! well done.

Finches, the news cutting came in a "Phossick Lot"
at auction, I (and most philatelists)
never throw things out, I scanned the clipping
and it went into storage in the attic.

Sacred Cows :
(Owner of catalogue Tony Mac)

Cinderella : New Zealand

"Cow on a cold morning"



..and funny business from Austria

Tiger Cow

A little off tangent....

Cowbridge Church...and article by an SCF member :

The esteemed Eunice Shanahan when she was a journalist
for Australian Stamp News.

I really enjoy her wonderful articles on pre stamp history of GB

Now I would like to take readers to...

"The Sound of Music"

"The Lonely Cowherd"

High on a hill was a lonely cowherd,
lay odl lay odl lay hee hoo
Loud was the voice of the lonely
cowherd, lay odl lay odl loo
Folks in a town that was quite remote heard
Lay odl lay odl lay hee hoo
Lusty and clear from the cowherd's throat heard
Lay odl lay odl loo...
Ho ho lady odlee ho, ho ho lady odl lay
Ho ho lady odl lee ho, lady odl lee ho lay
A prince on a bridge of a castle moat heard
Lay odl lay odl lay hee hoo
Men on a road with a load to tote heard
Lay odl lay odl loo
Men in the midst of a table d'hote heard
Lay odl lay odl lay hee hoo
Men drinking beer with a foam afloat heard
Lady odl lay odl loo...

Switzerland...A Cowherd :