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Cow facts!
- The average cow milked twice a day produces about 10
gallons of milk a day.
- There are approximately 350 squirts in a gallon of milk.
- 10 gallons of milk weighs about 86.2 pounds! (No wonder
cows get frisky after milking!)
- What a cow eats affects how much milk she gives.
- A cow weighs about 1400 pounds. That's more than a whole
classroom of first-graders including the teacher!
- When the Pilgrims came to America, they brought cows
with them.
- Cows were domesticated about 5,000 years ago.
- Cows can see color.
- Cows can detect odors up to five miles away.
- A 1,000-pound cow produces an average of 10 tons (that's
20,000 pounds!) of manure a year.
- Per day, a cow spends six hours eating and eight hours
chewing cud-that's 14 hours daily!
- The average cow drinks about 30 gallons of water and
eats about 95 pounds of feed per day.
- A cow stands up and lies down about 14 times a day.
- A cow's heart beats between 60 and 70 beats per minute.
- Cows can hear lower and higher frequencies better than
humans.
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