Amazing facts about cow
You can lead a cow up the stairs, but not down the stairs because a cow's knees cannot bend properly to walk back down.
2. A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime. It gives Almost 200,000 glasses full of milk in their lifetime.
3. While there are so many cows grazing in the world, no two cows will ever be found with identical pattern of spots means A Holsteins spots are like fingerprints. No two cows have the same spots.
4. A cow's heart weighs about 5lbs and pumps 400 pints of blood through the udder to produce 1 pint of milk. That means nearly 10,000 pints of blood are pumped through a cow's udder daily to produce 3 gallons of milk.
5. A cow weighs about 1400lbs.
6. Cows drink 30 gallons of water a day.
7. The pilgrims brought cows to America.
8. A cow has about 207 bones in its body.
9. Cows have cloven hooves. In galloping through boggy places or in deep mud, cattle can distance a horse. Their toes spread, and therefore their wide feet do not sink so deep as do those of the solid-hoofed horse. Furthermore, the cleft between the toes permits the air to enter the hole in the mud as the foot is raised; wheras the horse must overcome a partial vacuum when it withdraw its hoof, and so wastes considerable muscular effort beside having its speed retarded and its self-confidence shaken.
10. Cows produce up to 64qts of milk a day, 14lbs of cheese, 5 gallons of icecream or 6lbs of butter.
11. Top producing Holsteins, milking twice a day, have been know to produce up to 67,914lbs of milk in 365 days.
12. The average cow produces 30lbs of urine and 65lbs pounds of feces daily.
13. It takes 340 squirts of milk to fill a milk pail.
14. A cow doesn't bite the grass that feeds her, she curls her tongue around it.
15. Cattle can perceive higher and fainter noises than humans can, and they can smell scents that are up to six miles away (if the wind is right).
16. The age of a cow is always based on her age when she calves. This varies with different breeds. In other words, your record doesn't begin until you've had a calf, if you're a cow.
17. Old wives' tales claim cows can forecast the weather. "When a cow tries to scratch her ear, it means a shower is very near. When she thumps her ribs with her tail, look out for thunder, lightning and hail." But when a cow sticks her tongue up her nose, who knows?
Submitted By: Katyal on 09 -Mar-2010 | View: 1350
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