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45 Fun Facts
About Cows
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- It takes around 3,000 cows to supply the 22,000
footballs, the NFL uses every season.
- The average cow's temperature is 101.5 degrees
Fahrenheit.
- A cow can't vomit.
- Her intestines can get up to 170 feet.
- Her liver weighs 10 to 12 pounds, and the kidney's
average 20 pounds each.
- From a cow's gelatin, we get photographic film.
- On the top front of their mouths, cows have a
tough pad of skin instead of teeth.
- Cows have a total of 32 teeth, 8 incisors on the
bottom front and 6 strong molars on the top and
bottom back.
- There are 10,354,979 cows that give milk in the
US. Of these, one fifth are in Wisconsin
- The average California cow produces 19,825 pounds
of milk each year, more milk per cow than any other
state in the nation. That's enough for 128 people
to have a glass of milk every day of an entire year!
- There are more than 800,000 cows producing milk
in California.
- The large, black and white Holstein is the most
common. Other breeds include Guernsey's, Jerseys,
Brown Swiss, Ayrshires, and Milking Shorthorns.
- When a Holstein cow is milking, she weighs between
1,100 and 1,500 pounds.
- A Jersey cow weighs between 700 and 1,000 pounds.
- No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
- The cow must be a mother before she will produce
milk.
- A newborn Holstein calf weighs about 100 pounds
and can walk within one hour after birth!
- A one year old female calf is called a heifer.
She weighs between 450 and 500 pounds.
- A cow has one stomach with four sections.
- Cows regurgitate their food and rechew the cud
to help digestion. A cow spends up to 8 hours a
day eating.
- Milk is rich in protein which helps build your
muscles, and calcium which strengthens your bones.
- If you're between 1 and 12 years old, you should
have 3 servings of milk dairy products every day.
- Teenagers need even more and should have 4 or
more servings of dairy foods each day.
- Adults should have 2 or more servings of dairy
per day.
- Cows live to on average 6 to 7 years.
- Cows give 60 lb. of milk a day.
- Cows eat 100 lb. of feed a day, 20 lb. of grain,
and drink a bath tub full of water a day.
- Cows can weigh 1,350 lb., and 85 lb. at birth.
- A cow spends 13 hours a day lying down and up
to 8 hours a day eating.
- A cow is full grown at three years old, and produces
milk at two years old.
- A cow gives in her lifetime enough milk to fill
200,000 glasses, and gives 18,000 lb. of milk every
year.
- There are 207 bones in a cow's body.
- The oldest cow ever recorded was a Dremon cow
named "Big Bertha" that died 3 months
short of her 49th birthday on New Years Eve, 1993.
- Big Bertha also holds the record for lifetime
breeding as she produced 39 calves.
- The heaviest live birth of a calf is 225 lbs for
a British Friesian cow in 1961.
- The highest lifetime production of milk for a
single cow is 465,224 lbs by the cow named No. 289.
- The greatest amount of milk produce in one year
was 59,298 lbs by a Holstein cow named Robthom Suzet
Paddy.
- The greatest amount of milk produced during a
single day was 241 lbs by a cow named Urbe Blanca.
- Dairy cows can produce 125 lbs of saliva a day.
- Dairy cows can produce up to 200 lbs of farts
and flatus (burps) a day!
- The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire
for more cows."
- Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not
downstairs, because a cows' knees can't bend properly
to walk back down.
- There are (as of 1988) 98,990,000 cows in the
USA.
- Texas has the most with over 13 million cows.
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