Monday, August 30, 2010
TT - Cow Facts
The average cow's temperature is 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
A cow can't vomit.
Her intestines can get up to 170 feet.
Her liver weighs 10 to 12 pounds, and the kidney's average 20 pounds each.
From a cow's gelatin, we get photographic film.
On the top front of their mouths, cows have a tough pad of skin instead of teeth.
Cows have a total of 32 teeth, 8 incisors on the bottom front and 6 strong molars on the top and bottom back.
No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A cow has one stomach with four sections.
Cows regurgitate their food and rechew the cud to help digestion.
A cow spends up to 8 hours a day eating.
The oldest cow ever recorded was a Dremon cow named "Big Bertha" that died 3 months short of her 49th birthday on New Years Eve, 1993.
The greatest amount of milk produced during a single day was 241 lbs by a cow named Urbe Blanca.


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