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.
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).