How did the #fluffycow meme start? It started with a farm in Iowa called Lautner Farms, which regularly participates in stock shows. One of Lautners pictures of a fluffed-up show entrant was posted to Reddit (thread: Check out these fluffy ass cows!), where it made an understandably quick trip to wider audiences. From there, the #fluffycow meme trended on Twitter. And, earlier today, it was documented in a Buzzfeed listicle headlined 11 Reasons Fluffy Cows Are The New Micropigs. How do the cattle get so fluffy? Are they bred to be that way? Again, pampered into fluffiness. The coifs the creatures are sporting are the result of some painstaking hairstyling. The ranchers, rather than nature, have created the amazing hairdos you see on the fluffy cows. With the help of young members of organizations like 4-H and Future Farmers of America, the ranchers are doubling as bovine aestheticians. And their strategy is, like so many winning beauty routines, a matter of ongoing maintenance. It can take months of daily care (and sometimes twice-daily care) to coax the cattle into their full, fluffy-coated glory. Theres the washing. And the clipping. And the special oils (meant to give cows coats that special touchable, fluffable softness). Oh, and the blow-drying. And the hairspray. (The hairspray!) Styling a cow for showtime, per one report, can take around 2 hours and requires hairspray to keep all that fuzz in place and oil to make their coats shine.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:23:59 +0000
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