COW FACTS
What exactly is a cow? A cow is a mature female of the bovine animals. A male is a bull and a young bovine is a calf.
Old cows in India have their own nursing homes.
Per day, a cow spends six hours eating and eight hours chewing cud.
Cows have almost total 360-degree panoramic vision.
Cows can see color.
Hindus worship cows in India. Sacred cows?
Gangsta' Cows? In Cow-lumoo-bia the world's murder capital the vilolence has spread to cows. A cow stepped on the trigger of a loaded rifle left by a worker and shot another cow in the head!
A 1000 pound cow produces an average 10 TONS of manure every year!
It takes about 1.5 gallons of milk to make one gallon of ice cream.
A cow can live 25 years.
You can guess the age of a cow that has horns by counting the number of rings on the horns.
A maverick is a cow that escaped and maybe getting branded by a Rancher who finds the animal. (This is not a common practice)
A cow can detect odors up to five miles away.
An average cow with two milkings produces about ten gallons of milk a day, or 50-60 pounds.
A cow stands up and sits down about 14 times a day.
1611 Cows arrive to America brought by pilgrims.
1624 Cows reach Jamestown.
The U.S. annually produces nearly 25 percent of the world’s beef supply and has less than 10 percent of the world’s cattle inventory. Source: NCBA
People eat more ice cream on Sunday than on any other day of the week. Vanilla is the most popular flavor followed by chocolate. (Mine is still Strawberry)
One gallon of milk weighs over 8 pounds.
The average cow has more than 40,000 jaw movements per day. (All I can say is WOW)
Cattle consume less than 2/10 of one percent (1%) of all water used in the United States. Source: Buy Our Beef
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Cow Facts
Cow Facts
