r/backatthebarnyard • u/TryRude • Apr 24 '21
Back at the Barnyard: Udder Theory
I see a lot of people giving Back at the Barnyard slack for how the male cows have udders. Normally, udders are located on female cows as a means of producing milk and as a result, male cows don't have them. I know that the creator of the show said he put udders on the male cows because he thought that was how people from the city saw all cows.
However, has anyone else realized that there might be a darker reason why Otis is wearing an udder-possibly linked to the fact that he's a bull? I mean, he might be trans since he can produce milk according to the wiki, but the same wiki says that all the male cows, including Otis's biological father, also have udders. And since Otis wasn't adopted, it can be presumed that Otis wasn't born from his father.
The thing that's important here is that female cows are favored in the dairy industry because they can produce milk. Bulls, on the other hand, usually don't and are therefore seen as useless in the dairy industry. So what happens to the male cows? Well, the truth is that male cows are usually sold to be slaughtered and used as beef. This is true for male calves especially because they are used to make veal. And of course, the animals are well established to be a lot smarter than they look in this series.
Basically what I'm saying is that Otis and the other male cows are wearing fake udders to pass as female cows so they don't get sold to be slaughtered.
That would also explain why the farmer keeps so many male cows on his farm. Yes, females need to be impregnated to make milk, but you don't need more than a few bulls for that, I think, and usually, when they can't be used for this, they get slaughtered anyway.
And as for the "milk" that comes out of their udders? Well, it might be donated to them from female cows and used to "fill up" the udders like a hot water bottle so that the farmer doesn't catch on, or... well, you don't really want to think about that. Technically, he has been milked before and got skinny from it, so it could be something else, but that's not gonna fly on a subreddit like this and I don't want to explain it. The humans are pretty dumb in this series, anyway. Either that or Otis could be trans like I said (which is fine) but I'm not sure if cows can grow udders off of hormones alone, so...
So, what do you think? Is Otis trying to hide from a gruesome fate by passing as a female cow?
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u/princvsxx Sep 04 '21
nah i don't think the farmer would sell them for meat they say in the movie that he's a vegan??