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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