The smallest type of cow is a breed called Dexter, which was bred a small size for household living.
Cows were domesticated about 5,000 years ago.
Cows can see color.
Cows can detect odors upto 5 miles away.
A 1,000 pound cow produces an average of 10 tons of manure a year. Per day, a cow spends 6 hours eating and 8 hours chewing cud.
The average cow drinks about 30 gallons of water and eats about 95 pounds of feed per day.
A cow stands up and lies down about 14 times a day. A cow's heart beats between 60 and 70 beats per minute. Cows can hear lower and higher frequencies better than humans
Old cows in India have their own nursing home.
There are approximately 350 squirts in a gallon of milk.
The fastest cow is the Corriente. There are an estimated 920 cow breeds in the world
The average cow with two milkings a day produces about 10 gallons of milk a day
10 gallons of milk weighs about 60 pounds! (No wonder cows get frisky after milking!
It takes about 1.5 gallons of milk to make 1 gallon of ice cream
In the average herd there is one bull for every 30 cows
Corn is the most popular feed, then pasture, then hay
The world's biggest Holstein statue is in New Salem, North Dakota.
A cow has four stomaches.
Cows spots are like snowflakes there are never two with the same pattern of spots.
Hindus worship cows in India. Sacred cows?
Evil Cows? In Cow-lumbia the world's murder capital the vilolence has spread to cows. A cow stepped on the trigger of a loaded rifle left by one of the workers and shot another cow in the head!
What exactly is a cow some ask. A cow is a mature female of the bovine animals. A male is a bull And a young bovine is a calf.
Did you know that each day a dairy cows eats: 28 lbs. corn silage, 12.64 lbs alfalfa hay, 8.41 lbs barley, 4.33 lbs wheat bran, 3 lbs beet pulp, 5.5 lbs cottonseed, .75 lb fat, .12 lb salt, .5 lb minerals/vitamins, 255 lbs water (30 gallons) tat's almost a bathtub full
Exploding Cows? Operators of feed lots in Iowa faced a new problem eploding cows!! The extreme heat causes gases to rapidly expand in animals shortly after they die of heat-related distress. The cows in most cases explode. You have to pick the cows up right away or you'll have to pick up the peices.
A cow weighs 1400 pounds thats like 10-25 times what we weigh
Did you know cows are not indigenous to America. Columbus brought some with him on his second voyage. It became a law that each ship had to have one cow for every five people.
