Saturday, August 4, 2012

Did You Know These Cow Facts

As long as I was on the subject of cows in an earlier post--or was it sheep? Regardless, I just knew you'd be interested learning more about them---or maybe not. It's a new segment I'm initiating about 'did you know' facts.
A cow can climb up the stairs, but cannot climb down. This is because her knees cannot bend properly.
A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
 A cow stands up and sits down about 14 times a day.
 A cow usually spends 6-7 hours in day eating cud and around 8 hours on chewing it.
An average cow has more than 40,000 jaw movements in a day.
Cows can drink up to 35 gallons of water a day.
 Cows do not bite grass; rather they curl their tongue around it.
 Cows have almost total 360-degree panoramic vision.
 Cows have an acute sense of smell and can smell something up to 6 miles away
A cow gives milk for the first time, only after she gives birth to a calf.
A cow that weighs 1000 pound can produce an average 10 tons of manure every year.
An average cow produces 30 lbs of urine and 65 lbs pounds of feces daily.
Cows produce around 90 percent of the milk in the world.
Dairy cows can produce up to 125 lbs of saliva a day.
 A Holstein cow, named Robthom Suzet Paddy, holds the record for the greatest yield for a single lactation (365 days), at 59,298 lbs.
A cow named Cow No. 289 holds the record for the highest lifetime yield of milk for a single cow, at 465,224 lbs.
 The highest milk yield for a single day is 241 lbs, by a cow named Urbe Blanca.

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