Why did farm animals have bells around their necks back in the day?
Just curious why farm animals had bells around their necks back in the day. My thought was in case they lost the animal they could hear it jingle off in distance.
Because their horns don’t work.
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Mr. Anon Ymous March 9th, 2010, 1:06 am
You are correct. Animals would get lost all the time. Bells helped find the animal.
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Belgariad March 9th, 2010, 1:54 am
It made it easier for farmers to find them when they would let the animals go out in a field to graze.
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philosophyangel March 9th, 2010, 2:36 am
One reason was indeed to keep the animal from getting lost. The other was that people thought (and still think) that bell-ringing dispersed "negative energy" or "evil spirits."
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Digyo March 9th, 2010, 3:25 am
Because their horns don’t work.
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many owls March 9th, 2010, 3:38 am
they put them on to find them
in fog or snow to.
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Christina March 9th, 2010, 3:55 am
Farmers put bells around the animals neck so that they could find them out in the fields or if they got lost. Also, when a predator, such as coyote, approach the farm animals, they would panic the bell would start ringing loudly; scaring the predator away.
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