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A dairy cow eats 28 pounds of corn silage, 12.64 pounds of alfalfa hay, 8.41 pounds of barley, 4.33 pounds of wheat bran, 3 pounds of beef pulp, 5.5 pounds of cottonseed, .75 pounds of fat, .12 pounds of salt, .5 pounds of minerals and vitamins, and 255 pounds of water a day.

A cow is a mature female of the bovine animals.

Hindus worship cows in India....."Sacred Cows"

A cow is full grown at 3 years old, and produces milk at 2 years old.

There are 207 bones in a cow's body.

The oldest cow ever recorded was a Dremon cow named "Big Berthe" that died 3 months short of her 49th birthday on New Year's Eve, 1993.

Big Bertha also holds the record for lifetime breeding as she produced 39 calves.

The heaviest live birth of a claf is 225 pounds for a British Friesian cow in 1961.

The highest lifetime production of milk for a single cow is 465,224 pounds bye the cow named No. 289.

The greatest amount of milk produced in one year was 59,298 pounds by a Holstein cow named Robthom Suzet Paddy.

The greatest amount of milk produced during a single day was 241 pounds by a cow named Urbe Blanca.

Dairy cows can produce up to 200 pounds of farts and flatus a day!

Cow spots are like snowflakes there are never two with the same patern of spots.

A cow spends 13 hours a day lying down.

The large, black and white Holstein is the most common dairy cow.  Other breeds include Guernsey's, Jerseys, Brown Swiss, Ayrshires, and Milking Shorthorns.

When a Holstein is milking she weighs between 1,100 and 1,500 pounds.

A Jersey cow weighs between 700 and 1,000 pounds.

A newborn Holstein can walk within one hour after birth.

When most cows are lying down it means it will rain.

It takes approximately 3,000 cows to supply the 22,000 footballs, the NFL uses every season.

There are more cows than people in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and Ireland.

Cows are not indigenous to America.  Columbus brought cattle with him on his second voyage to the New World.