• A cow's heart weighs about 5lbs and pumps 400 pints of blood through the udder to produce 1 pint of milk. That means nearly 10,000 pints of blood are pumped through a cow's udder daily to produce 3 gallons of milk.
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
• A cow weighs about 1400lbs.
• Cows drink 30 gallons of water a day.
• The pilgrims brought cows to America.
• A cow has about 207 bones in its body.
• Cows have cloven hooves. In galloping through boggy places or in deep mud, cattle can distance a horse. Their toes spread, and therefore their wide feet do not sink so deep as do those of the solid-hoofed horse. Furthermore, the cleft between the toes permits the air to enter the hole in the mud as the foot is raised; wheras the horse must overcome a partial vacuum when it withdraw its hoof, and so wastes considerable muscular effort beside having its speed retarded and its self-confidence shaken.
• Cows produce up to 64qts of milk a day, 14lbs of cheese, 5 gallons of icecream or 6lbs of butter.
• Top producing Holsteins, milking twice a day, have been know to produce up to 67,914lbs of milk in 365 days.
• The average cow produces 30lbs of urine and 65lbs pounds of feces daily.
• It takes 340 squirts of milk to fill a milk pail.
• A cow doesn't bite the grass that feeds her, she curls her tongue around it.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because a cow's knees cannot bend properly to walk back down.
• Cattle can perceive higher and fainter noises than humans can, and they can smell scents that are up to six miles away (if the wind is right).
• The age of a cow is always based on her age when she calves. This varies with different breeds. In other words, your record doesn't begin until you've had a calf, if you're a cow.
• Old wives' tales claim cows can forecast the weather. "When a cow tries to scratch her ear, it means a shower is very near. When she thumps her ribs with her tail, look out for thunder, lightning and hail."

Click on these links to hear cows:

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p.s.that last one might take awhile, but its totally worth it!!!