A steer is a male cattle that is neutered while still a calf and it's body morphology remains juvenile and resembling a cow. An Oxen is a male cattle that is neutered once it reaches adulthood and is large and muscular, neutered oxen have the strength and size of a bull but not the aggression due to zero testosterone.. BTW you forgot doves, pigeons, geese, guinea fowl, guinea pigs, rabbits, etc.
An ox is usually a steer (depends on the owner’s philosophy when it is neutered, there’s arguments around both either banding or cutting and at a couple days old or around 6+ months old) but technically could be any cow that has training as they are walked beside, usually on their left side, and given voice commands and tapped with a goad without any leads, halters, reigns or other devices. The Mormon pioneers yoked any cow (especially the family milk cow and beef steers) that could get wrestled into a yoke every morning to pull their wagons (only really the first pair in a team of oxen needs to be trained as the rest have no real choice but to follow). Technically among ox drivers, a trained steer is referred to as a “working steer” until he’s reached full maturity at four years old and only then would be referred to as an ox, but I think that’s fallen more by the wayside as their use in developed countries is obviously not common anymore. If you’re interested, you should check out Tillers International near Kalamazoo, Michigan.
@@user-ug5xr2gb6jAnother reason the use of oxen for plowing and farm work faded out was the development of the horse collar. A yoke could not be used on a horse because it would choke them, and once the horse collar was developed, horses took over because they were much easier to train than an ox. Also, a farm would usually have several horses that could be interchanged for plowing, rather than one or two pairs of oxen, so plowing could be done faster.
@@lindawolffkashmir2768 That’s not entirely the case, but I’m sure advances in technology played a factor. As humans were lazy and like to get crap done faster and horses move and work faster. Oxen are best suited for slow heavy work. Picking the best draft animal for a job would be kind of like how we now pick the appropriate truck or tractor for a job we need to do now, but you do it with what you’ve got. They were first used by the ancient Egyptians and other Bronze Age cultures in the Fertile Crescent, and were still used extensively into last century in certain industries, especially logging in northern Michigan and the Pacific Northwest, and are still occasionally seen on small farms in New England. They we’re definitely cheaper to buy and outfit; a book I was reading about the Oregon Trail had a copy of a manifest and it showed where oxen were 1/3 - 1/10 the cost of horses and mules. That’s kind of consistent throughout history where horses were way more expensive to have and upkeep.
As an animal science major, I saw many inconsistencies that had me questioning my education. But the mention of nylon made me feel better because I realized that they were probably wrong in the other things I was doubting.😅
That pulled me right out. Stopped watching at the mention of nylon. I'm not a scientist but I do know it was invented in the 20th century and is synthetic!
Just saying Nylon was researched in the 1920s and not available to ancient romans. Not wise enough to differentiate all the facts from fiction, but people should be cautious taking info at face value from this source.
There was actually a really interesting article written by I believe an archaeologist who made the argument that humans first domesticated sheep and goats (obviously way after dogs), and their first purpose was use as pack animals to move goods over rough terrain and mountains between two areas, and then their value in wool and milk production was realized due to living in proximity and observing them. This was evidenced by the fact that the wild populations in the regions, and around the time of their domestication were actually higher than at previous points in history, and so why would someone put more effort and energy into raising livestock for meat when going out and hunting them as you had for thousands of years before was only easier due to their being higher populations. Also, they noticed that around a mountainous area in that region, there was obvious trade of obsidian hundreds of miles away from where it originated, and the terrain was so rough that they couldn’t have gone over it with oxen as pack animals.
"Livestock are the cornerstone of agricultural societies" (opening statement). That leaves out societies living of pastoral nomadism - and demonstrates the obvious limitations of AI in the ability ro understand history.
I am pretty sure this video is completely AI. The mention of Romans using nylon is completely bonkers. Hope nobody is watching this thinking they're learning something scientific!
Finally someone that knows how to use AI art properly. There is an interesting story how sheep got to Australia. Misses MacArthur was an early agronomist. She realized that Marino sheep would work in Australia. Her Husband managed to fowl up a diplomatic conference on Gibraltar Spain. So the British government sent them to Sydney as a guard. Tasked with finding Marino's the British sea captain set off from Sydney for Britain. Meanwhile someone was trying to bribe the governor of Durban South Africa with stud Marino sheep. He had died before they arrived. His wife sent the animals to the abatjour. One of the sea captains spotted them and saved them from the butcher and got most of them alive to Sydney. These were stud breeding animals from the Spanish royal flock. $1000 per head selling for mere cents. The MacArthur's and Australia got rich.
Stopped watching after the comment at 6:06 about Romans giving their sheep coats of fitted nylon. @theartofbeinghuman your channel is a joke, did a human even review this before it was posted?
"Evolution traces the development of domestic goats through natural selection" - if by domestic the narrator means domesticated (as opposed to domestic as the opposite of foreign imports), then no, that would be wild goats, not domestic[ated] goats which develop through artificial selection. Artificial UNintelligence!
You might want to look again at the dates you gave for the 'arrival' of cattle in the island of Great Britain. The excavations at the archaeological site at the Ness of Brodgar in Scotland UK have thousands of cattle bones, of what are thought to be long-horned cattle. The site is dated to 3000 BC, and the last 'feast' of cattle yielding a vast hoard of cattle bones that were discarded were at the final closure of the site which is dated to 2,400BC. This may well be evidence that there was another, independent, domestication of cattle in the British isles, which was later augmented by the influx of cattle from the near east.
Even though I don't care for the AI narration, the information provide was great and for the most part accurate... Please just get a decent narrator, the AI mistakes are awful.
This is a really good channel. I've subscribed. I love the channel name! Thank you for this content. I think it's important to show people that food doesn't come from cardboard boxes and plastic wrappers.
A steer is a male cattle that is neutered while still a calf and it's body morphology remains juvenile and resembling a cow. An Oxen is a male cattle that is neutered once it reaches adulthood and is large and muscular, neutered oxen have the strength and size of a bull but not the aggression due to zero testosterone.. BTW you forgot doves, pigeons, geese, guinea fowl, guinea pigs, rabbits, etc.
An ox is usually a steer (depends on the owner’s philosophy when it is neutered, there’s arguments around both either banding or cutting and at a couple days old or around 6+ months old) but technically could be any cow that has training as they are walked beside, usually on their left side, and given voice commands and tapped with a goad without any leads, halters, reigns or other devices. The Mormon pioneers yoked any cow (especially the family milk cow and beef steers) that could get wrestled into a yoke every morning to pull their wagons (only really the first pair in a team of oxen needs to be trained as the rest have no real choice but to follow). Technically among ox drivers, a trained steer is referred to as a “working steer” until he’s reached full maturity at four years old and only then would be referred to as an ox, but I think that’s fallen more by the wayside as their use in developed countries is obviously not common anymore. If you’re interested, you should check out Tillers International near Kalamazoo, Michigan.
@@user-ug5xr2gb6jAnother reason the use of oxen for plowing and farm work faded out was the development of the horse collar. A yoke could not be used on a horse because it would choke them, and once the horse collar was developed, horses took over because they were much easier to train than an ox. Also, a farm would usually have several horses that could be interchanged for plowing, rather than one or two pairs of oxen, so plowing could be done faster.
@@lindawolffkashmir2768 That’s not entirely the case, but I’m sure advances in technology played a factor. As humans were lazy and like to get crap done faster and horses move and work faster. Oxen are best suited for slow heavy work. Picking the best draft animal for a job would be kind of like how we now pick the appropriate truck or tractor for a job we need to do now, but you do it with what you’ve got. They were first used by the ancient Egyptians and other Bronze Age cultures in the Fertile Crescent, and were still used extensively into last century in certain industries, especially logging in northern Michigan and the Pacific Northwest, and are still occasionally seen on small farms in New England. They we’re definitely cheaper to buy and outfit; a book I was reading about the Oregon Trail had a copy of a manifest and it showed where oxen were 1/3 - 1/10 the cost of horses and mules. That’s kind of consistent throughout history where horses were way more expensive to have and upkeep.
This sounds like this was written by AI. She lost me when she said they used nylon blankets to cover sheets 😂
As an animal science major, I saw many inconsistencies that had me questioning my education. But the mention of nylon made me feel better because I realized that they were probably wrong in the other things I was doubting.😅
Yep ai, not for another 1,000s years did we have nylon. 😂
That pulled me right out. Stopped watching at the mention of nylon. I'm not a scientist but I do know it was invented in the 20th century and is synthetic!
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Yes I turned it off after 1 minute
Just saying Nylon was researched in the 1920s and not available to ancient romans. Not wise enough to differentiate all the facts from fiction, but people should be cautious taking info at face value from this source.
There was actually a really interesting article written by I believe an archaeologist who made the argument that humans first domesticated sheep and goats (obviously way after dogs), and their first purpose was use as pack animals to move goods over rough terrain and mountains between two areas, and then their value in wool and milk production was realized due to living in proximity and observing them. This was evidenced by the fact that the wild populations in the regions, and around the time of their domestication were actually higher than at previous points in history, and so why would someone put more effort and energy into raising livestock for meat when going out and hunting them as you had for thousands of years before was only easier due to their being higher populations. Also, they noticed that around a mountainous area in that region, there was obvious trade of obsidian hundreds of miles away from where it originated, and the terrain was so rough that they couldn’t have gone over it with oxen as pack animals.
The Romans had nylon...Riiiiiiiight. AI is funny.
And I fart gold dust every 5 seconds
@@NosaintPatrickmy i suggest a diet of beans, cabbage and broccoli…
@@NosaintPatrick There are actually gold pills you can buy to poop gold. Maybe you can fart gold dust as well. :D
"Livestock are the cornerstone of agricultural societies" (opening statement). That leaves out societies living of pastoral nomadism - and demonstrates the obvious limitations of AI in the ability ro understand history.
Says domestication goes back thousands of years, but it actually goes back 10,000s of years. I’m pretty sure this is an AI script.
I am pretty sure this video is completely AI. The mention of Romans using nylon is completely bonkers. Hope nobody is watching this thinking they're learning something scientific!
Marine Turtles not Tortoises!
Finally someone that knows how to use AI art properly.
There is an interesting story how sheep got to Australia. Misses MacArthur was an early agronomist. She realized that Marino sheep would work in Australia. Her Husband managed to fowl up a diplomatic conference on Gibraltar Spain. So the British government sent them to Sydney as a guard. Tasked with finding Marino's the British sea captain set off from Sydney for Britain. Meanwhile someone was trying to bribe the governor of Durban South Africa with stud Marino sheep. He had died before they arrived. His wife sent the animals to the abatjour. One of the sea captains spotted them and saved them from the butcher and got most of them alive to Sydney. These were stud breeding animals from the Spanish royal flock. $1000 per head selling for mere cents. The MacArthur's and Australia got rich.
Stopped watching after the comment at 6:06 about Romans giving their sheep coats of fitted nylon. @theartofbeinghuman your channel is a joke, did a human even review this before it was posted?
"Evolution traces the development of domestic goats through natural selection" - if by domestic the narrator means domesticated (as opposed to domestic as the opposite of foreign imports), then no, that would be wild goats, not domestic[ated] goats which develop through artificial selection.
Artificial UNintelligence!
Every Black tail deer I ever met on the West coast is just waiting for someone to hand them an apple
You might want to look again at the dates you gave for the 'arrival' of cattle in the island of Great Britain. The excavations at the archaeological site at the Ness of Brodgar in Scotland UK have thousands of cattle bones, of what are thought to be long-horned cattle. The site is dated to 3000 BC, and the last 'feast' of cattle yielding a vast hoard of cattle bones that were discarded were at the final closure of the site which is dated to 2,400BC. This may well be evidence that there was another, independent, domestication of cattle in the British isles, which was later augmented by the influx of cattle from the near east.
Even though I don't care for the AI narration, the information provide was great and for the most part accurate... Please just get a decent narrator, the AI mistakes are awful.
For the most part?
Just call it livestock. Human livestock is a whole other things.
Human livestock was common way before animal livestock.😅
@patrickdaly8561 modern-day capitalistic economics have driven people to live in the suburbs and cities as intensive farming continues..hmmmm..
Human livestock became illegal a couple of hundred years ago...
Is the video accurate? A simple question with a simple answer. How many statements were given as absolute facts and how many were not?
You forgot Guinea Pigs. This was not ALL livestock.
Did I miss the part about Rabbits?
Nice video ❤
least depressing AI content
This is a really good channel. I've subscribed. I love the channel name! Thank you for this content. I think it's important to show people that food doesn't come from cardboard boxes and plastic wrappers.
Roman nylon?🤣
Just say BC no need to be so politically correct.
Didn't all mammals pop out of in the Americas?
Yeah, it's so lazy to use AI voice... do your own God damned work
It's even lazier to use AI script.