Cow Trivia

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• 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.
• An average cow eats . . . 20 lbs of hay, 20 lbs of corn silage, 10-20 lbs of corn, 6-12 lbs of supplement (fortified with protein, energy, vitamins & minerals).