Facts about Bovine
- A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
- Cows drink 25-50 gallons of water each day. That's nearly a bathtub full.
- There are about 11 million cows in America. They will make about 57.5 billion quarts of milk this year.
- Most cows chew at least 50 times per minute.
- Cows have an acute sense of smell - they can smell something up to 6 miles away!
- A couple once rented a cow to put it on an elevator with 40 of their friends and relatives as part of a ritual.
- When the Pilgrims came to America, they brought cows with them.
- Calfs weigh anywhere between 30 - 50 pounds when they are born.
- How to say "cow" in fifteen languages:
Danish - Koe
Estonian - Lehm
Finnish - Lehma
French - Vache
German - Kuh
Indonesian - Sapi
Italian - Vaccaor OR Mucca
Japanese - Ushi
Korean - So
Polish - Krowa
Russian - Korova
Serbian - Crava
Spanish - Vaca
Swedish - Ko
Hindu - Gaay
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