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I think all ruminants need to eat fecal matter to get the digestive enzymes needed to process the plant matter in their area.

• aerostable_slug 5y ago
  I used to raise beef cattle. I was told the calves get inoculated from common water supplies, whether a natural watering hole or a trough.
  • hilbert42 5y ago
    It's not only cattle that get inoculated that way, yours truly was similarly inoculated in that manner. I won't go into vivid specifics except to say that when a toddler my horrified mother rushed me to hospital after I had eaten unmentionables off the street left by our four-legged brethren. I survived unscathed and asthma fee - a good test of the 'too much hygiene hypothesis' methinks. ;-)
    • soperj 5y ago
      My brother managed to survive asthma free without eating poop.