Amazing Cow Facts

Cows are also known as cattle.
Cows are herbivores meaning they eat grasses, plants, corn. They do not eat meat.
There are many types of cows.
Cows are smart and intelligent animals.

They are also social animals and interact with other cows.

Cows say “moo” as a way to communicate.

A male is called a bull.

A female who has given birth is called a cow.

A female who has not given birth is called a heifer.

A baby cow is called a calf.

There are over 1 billion cows that live in the world!

Cows live on every continent except Antarctica.

In India where they practice the Hindu religion cows are sacred and are allowed to roam the streets free.

Around 300 million cows live in India!

Cows weigh between 400-1,600 pounds!

Cows have 32 teeth.

Cows drink 35 gallons a water a day.

They eat 50 pounds of food a day.

Cows live up to 25 years.

They can run 35 miles per hour.

In deep mud, cows can run faster than horses!

A cow has one stomach with four compartments. The rumen, reticulum, omasum and the abomasum.

Cow are ruminates meaning they can digest food that can normally not be digested.

Like a human’s fingerprints, no two cow’s spots are exactly the same.

A cow is pregnant for nine months. A calf is about 90 pounds when it is born.

Cows have an excellent sense of smell. They can smell up to 5 miles away!

Beef and milk comes from cows.

Veal comes from calves.

We make most dairy products such as butter, cream, ice cream and cheese from the milk we get from cows.

Cows do not produce milk until after they have given birth.

Did you know that it takes 350 squirts from a cow to get one gallon of milk!

A cow can produce 6 gallons of milk a day!

Each dairy cow produces 200,000 cups a milk in her lifetime.

The glass milk bottle was invented in 1884. The plastic milk bottle started being used in the US in 1967.

21 billion gallons of milk is produced in American every year.

Did you know that when you eat something spicy and you get a burning feeling your mouth, drinking milk will help cool the burning feeling?

The state of California produces the most milk in the US, Wisconsin is number 2.

Cows can go up stairs but cannot walk down.

Until the 1850’s most American families owned their own cows.

Cows first came to America with pilgrims. They arrived in the colony of Jamestown in 1611.