Cows








Facts
  • A cow weighs about 1400 pounds.

  • Cows are ruminants or cud-chewing animals eating hay, corn, soybeans, grass, wheat, and ensilage

  • A cow has actually got only one stomach, however, the stomach has got four compartments

  • A dairy cow produce up to 8 gallons of milk each day, and nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime

  • What a cow eats affects how much milk she gives

  • Cows drink 25-50 gallons of water each day. That's nearly a bathtub full

  • Cows are sedentary animals who spend up to 8 hours a day chewing the cud while standing still or lying down to rest after grazing

    Cows actually love cereal. They also like potato chips and even cotton seed

  • When going to be milked, a certain cow, in an established herd, always leads the others with the weaker and older cattle trailing behind the group

  • A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots

  • A one year old milking cow is called a heifer

  • The room where cows are milkked is called the miking parlor

  • The special milk that a cow produces for her newborn calf is called colostrum

  • The cow breed that weighs the most is Holstein

  • A newborn calf can walk on its own one hour after its birth

  • A cow's teeth are only on the bottom of her mouth

  • While some cows can live up to 40 years, they generally do not live beyond 20 years.




Want to test your knowledge of cows? Try Solfrid's Cow Quiz. All the answers can be found on this page.




Links To Some Cool Cow Sites

The South Park Cows Page

What An Architect Could Do For Your Cows

Cowlossus of Roads

Rebel Cows: A Victim's Story

Cow Pictures

MooMilk

The Animated Virtual Cow Experiment





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