@roamer_1
People just pretend they are singing to the cows. They are singing to please themselves. The cows like it because it makes them feel like they are safe,but they would be just as happy if the cowboys were reading to them. It's the sound of the calm voice that does it.
Which means you do NOT "sing" punk rock songs to calm a herd of cattle. Chances are you would be ran over by the stampede.
No, it ls a thing... There is a certain style they like, and that's where that western cowboy stuff comes from, with the ki-yips and yodels.
Even moving em, if you're on the swing, you're probably singing to em. And certainly to bed em down. Partly I suppose it it because they can hear who you are and where you are as you approach, riding round...
I dunno. All I know is that it works. Better on cows than on wimmin.
