Cool Cow faCts
The Watusi breed of cattle like to sleep in tight-knit groups called a glum. So, the next time someone asks: "Why so glum, chum?", you can say "You saying I look like a cow? That doesn't help matters."
In the ancient Celtic religion the cows of different colors held different meanings: A black cow meant death; a brown cow meant fertility; and white cows symbolized the sun cult.
The lighter under-color seen on some cows is said to act as a natural camouflage by highlighting the shadow underneath the cow, which thereby renders the cow more two-dimensional and harder for a predator to see.
You can guess the age of a cow that has horns by counting the number of rings on the horns.
A 1000 pound cow produces an average 10 TONS of manure every year!
A cow can live 25 years.
A maverick is a cow that escaped getting branded.
Cows have almost total 360-degree panoramic vision.
Old cows in India have their own nursing homes.
A cow can detect odors up to five miles away.
An average cow with two milkings produces about ten gallons of milk a day, or 50-60 pounds.
A cow stands up and sits down about 14 times a day.
Cambridge, Massachusetts started off as a cow pasture.
Boston was actually laid out by cow paths.
A cow can live 25 years.
It takes about 1.5 gallons of milk to make one gallon of ice cream.
Per day, a cow spends six hours eating and eight hours chewing cud.
Mooing at a mother and her calf is very upsetting to the animals.
Cows can see color.
Cows in Wisconsin outnumber people two to one.
Cows are music lovers! They have been known to give up to 35% more milk when listening to Elvis. P.S. I didn't say they had good taste!
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
