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Cow Trivia
Cow Trivia
How Now Brown Cow?
- Cows were domesticated nearly 5,000 years ago.
- Cows can see color.
- Cows can detect odors up to 5 miles away.
- Cows can hear lower and higher frequencies better than humans.
- Each day, a cow spends approximately 6 hours eating and 8 hours chewing cud.
- Most cows chew at least 50 times per minute.
- The average cow drinks about 30 gallons of water and consumes 95 pounds of feed per day.
- An average dairy cow weighs about 1,400 pounds.
- A cow stands up and lies down about 14 times a day.
- There are approximately 350 squirts that go into each gallon of milk.
- The average cow with 2 milkings a day produces about 10 gallons daily.
- Ten gallons of milk weighs about 60 pounds.
- There are about 11 million cows in America. They will make about 57.5 billion quarts of milk this year.
- A 1,000 pound cow produces on average 10 tons of manure annually.
- Old cows in India have their own nursing home!
- Cows drink 35 gallons of water a day -- the equivalent of a bathtub full of water.
- Average cow eats . . . 20 lb hay, 20 lb corn silage, 10-20 lb corn, 6-12 lb supplement (fortified with protein, energy, vitamins & minerals)
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