Bossie Facts!
- Cows each have their own personalities.
- A cow gives approx. 8 gals per day or enough for over 100 people to have a glass of milk every day!
- A cow must have a calf once a year to continue milking.
- A newborn Holstein calf weighs about 100 pounds and can walk within one hour after birth!
- Cows are vegetarians.
- A cows diet consists of fresh green grass, hay, grain and corn silage.
- A cow eats approx. 118 lbs. per day.
- A cow digests its food with the help of it's four stomachs.
- Cows get drunk when they eat a lot of apples and are not good milk producers when they are drunk.
- A cow drinks approx. 1 bathtub full of water per day.
- When a Holstein cow is milking, she weighs between 1,100 and 1,500 pounds.
- A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or a snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
- Cows have a total of 32 teeth only on the bottom.
- A cow will produce milk for about 6 years.
- Cows are milked by machine and need
to be milked twice a day, every day. No days off and no vacations.
The Secret Life Of Cows