and trolley of cows to swiss life was brought into sharp focus by the recent national referendum on horn cutting by a slim margin the nation voted to continue the practice that many argue was cruel and unnatural so the horns are gone let's find out of swiss cows will now be permitted to keep those extra pounds. i'm cut a medal is the pride and joy of farmer mathias haute and one of his best dairy cows but like the rest of his herd she has an inborn problem a sister called carmela is a special cross breed and i know she's now four and a half and has produced two calves and is one of our biggest cows she's almost one metre sixty tall at least on foster i mean say schtick. oh sounds impressive the farmer shows us what the problem is his father built a cow shed thirty years ago back then its inhabitants were considerably smaller. in