Friday, April 15, 2011

cows facts



·      A cow can climb up the stairs, but cannot climb down. This is because her knees cannot bend properly.


·          A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.



·      A cow usually spends 6-7 hours in day eating cud and around 8 hours on chewing it.





·       Almost all the cows chew at least 50 times per minute.



·    Cows can drink up to 35 gallons of water a day.


·       Cows do not bite grass; rather they curl their tongue around it.


·      An average cow has more than 40,000 jaw movements in a day.


·  Cows have almost total 360-degree panoramic vision.


·   Cows have an acute sense of smell and can smell something up to 6 miles away.


·  Cows have a single stomach, but four digestive compartments.



· A cow named Cow No. 289 holds the record for the highest lifetime yield of milk for a single cow, at 465,224 lbs.



·        You can guess the age of a cow that has horns by counting the number of rings on the horns.


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